NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate has awarded $488,954 to APTIMA Inc. of Woburn, Mass., for work described in its NASA research announcement proposal “Alarms: Alerting and Reasoning Management System.”

Scott Galster is the principal investigator.

The two-year award from the directorate’s Aviation Safety Program will foster close collaboration with and facilitate the exchange of ideas and information among researchers at NASA, industry, academia and other government agencies to benefit the nation’s aeronautics community.

NASA’s Aviation Safety Program is dedicated to improving the safety of current and future aircraft and their operations in the national airspace system. The research focuses on the way vehicles are designed, built, operated and maintained.

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