SBIR-STTR Award

Data Analytics for Navy Aircraft Component Fatigue Life Management
Award last edited on: 8/6/2019

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : Navy
Total Award Amount
$1,124,911
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
N182-100
Principal Investigator
Michele Kochoff Platt

Company Information

Avnik Defense Solutions Inc

262 Governors West Drive Suite 102
Huntsville, AL 35806
   (256) 513-5292
   info@avnikdefense.com
   www.avnikdefense.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 05
County: Madison

Phase I

Contract Number: N68335-18-C-0776
Start Date: 9/10/2018    Completed: 12/19/2019
Phase I year
2018
Phase I Amount
$124,926
Operational availability, reliability, and performance of Navy aircraft are key factors in achieving mission success. The Army maintains extensive data sets to document historical and current field experience with in-service aircraft. Engineering, logistics,and maintenance organizations,at all levels, use these data sets as inputs to guide decision processes about engineering and sustainment planning, forecasting supply chain actions, mission planning activities,and maintenance management. AVNIK Defense Solutions, Inc. proposes, with our subcontract team member Instrumental Sciences, Inc. (ISI), and consultant subject matter experts (SMEs), a data analytics concept, Software Automated Analysis Toolset System (SAATS), based on the new technologies of data mining, qualitative reasoning, ML, distributed work environments and CIA architectures. This concept will lead to a resilient network of Cooperative Intelligent Agents to meet PMA-276 H-1 USMC operations, maintenance, and sustainment systems needs. Primary objectives of the Phase I research are to 1) Develop techniques to characterize the information content of selected data sets for Phase I evaluation and identify sources of missing and corrupted data. 2) Demonstrate the feasibility and potential for a resilient intelligent network to rapidly extract, compile, analyze, and present to users information derived from disparate Navy databases relevant to usage forecasting and maintenance scheduling.

Phase II

Contract Number: N68335-20-C-0316
Start Date: 3/6/2020    Completed: 3/10/2023
Phase II year
2020
Phase II Amount
$999,985
Many components and structural parts on military aircraft can experience fatigue-induced failure modes, the likelihood of which typically depend on the historical aircraft usage regimes. AVNIK Defense Solutions, Inc. is leading this NAVAIR SBIR project to develop new automated methods for managing fatigue life of aircraft components, considering the actual usage and historical field experience, to reduce maintenance, reduce cost, and improve fleet readiness.Our innovative concept is a software automated analysis toolset system (SAATS) that consists of a resilient intelligent network incorporating cooperative intelligent agents to autonomously acquire usage and maintenance data from original data sources and manage statistical analysis of the data to support maintenance and operations planning. We apply recent technological advances in data analytics to discriminate between useful information and inconsistencies in the acquired data.The SAATS Phase I effort established feasibility of our technical approach, demonstrated key elements of the concepts and techniques, and positioned the SAATS project for a successful Phase II continuation.We propose to conduct principal research, product development, and testing during Phase II, including engineering prototypes of the intelligent network, interfaces with DECKPLATE and other NATEC resources, data analytics algorithms, fatigue life modeling capabilities, and graphical user interfaces.