NASA is researching and developing a software/hardware framework for safe, trustworthy autonomous systems under the Autonomous Systems project. As part of this development, an aircraft's autopilot system must receive and execute commands from a NASA developed software system hosted on a COTS processor. The commands to the autopilot provide it necessary bank/roll and climb/pitch angles capture commands in order to perform collision avoidance maneuvers.
Under the Autonomous Systems project, the NASA-Traveler program at Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) development of an automatic Air Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) requires close coordination with a commercial autopilot system. To integrate the ACAS and the autopilot requires NASA have access to the autopilot's Interface-Control-Documents (ICDs) and the autopilot vendor assist NASA in integration of their autopilot with the NASA processor/software on a non-reimbursable funding basis from NASA.
Sell 3 autopilot system to NASA-AFRC as listed in the equipment list. Acquisition of the 3 autopilot systems is desired prior to commencing the first stages of automatic Air-Collision Avoidance in April/May 2018.

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