RL Associates Receives $600,000 NASA Contract

NASA has awarded RL Associates, Inc. a 2 yr, $600,000 contract to develop an External Hazard Detection (EHD) System that will image through fog, rain and other obscurants. The Next Generation of Aviation Transportation Systems (NGATS or “NexGen”) will require significantly better hazard mitigation systems both for ground-level and in-flight hazards. The RL Associates’ NIR system will significantly improve the pilots ability to both avoid in-flight hazards, by sensing them sooner, and to fly through ground-level obscurants, like fog or heavy rain, in order to safely keep to a tighter flight schedule. RL Associates plans to deliver a flight-validated prototype to NASA at the completion of the contract.