Emergent Space Technologies Selected To Be A DARPA
System F6 Prime Contractor
Greenbelt, MD; May 11, 2011
Emergent Space Technologies, Inc. (Emergent), a provider of advanced
engineering
services and solutions to civil, military, and commercial space
programs, was
awarded a contract by the NASA Ames
Research Center
to provide cluster flight guidance, navigations, and control (GN&C)
algorithms and software
for the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA)
System F6 Program.
Emergent's contract is worth up to $6.7 million over 2.5-year period of
performance
(6-month base plus two 1-year options). Emergent, a certified CMMI Level 3 software
developer, will perform
systems engineering, algorithm design, flight software development,
integration,
and verification and validation, including hardware-in-the-loop
testing, for the
program's Cluster Flight Technical area.
Emergent’s President, Dr. George Davis, said, "Emergent is extremely
pleased to
be a part of DARPA’s System F6 team. Our Cluster Flight solution will
provide
the program with innovative flight software for collaborative,
semi-autonomous
navigation, orbit maintenance, and collision avoidance. We look forward
to
helping DARPA revolutionize the way complex space systems are
developed."
Emergent, headquartered in Greenbelt, MD, is a Small Business
specializing in
the research, development, and application of advanced navigation,
communication,
and information technologies. Emergent has additional offices in Denver
and
Colorado Springs, CO; Houston and Austin, TX; and Albuquerque, NM. For
more
information on Emergent, please visit emergentspace.com.
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