Aviation Performance Measuring System (APMS)

APMS is developing the next generation of tools for flight data analysis and interpretation. Airlines, military units and corporate operators all analyze aircraft flight data to identify contributing factors and corrective actions for situations in which aircraft performance parameters exceed prescribed limits during a flight.

Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS)
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The ASRS is a small but important facet of the continuing effort by government, industry, and individuals to maintain and improve aviation safety. The ASRS collects voluntarily submitted aviation safety incident/situation reports from pilots, controllers, and others. The ASRS acts on the information these reports contain. It identifies system deficiencies, and issues alerting messages to persons in a position to correct them. It educates through its newsletter CALLBACK, its journal ASRS Directline and through its research studies. Its database is a public repository which serves the FAA's and NASA's needs and those of other organizations world-wide which are engaged in research and the promotion of safe flight.

Aviation System Monitoring and Modeling (ASMM)
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ASMM is a Project of the Aviation Safety Program to provide decision makers with regular, accurate, and insightful measures of the performance, and safety of the
National Aviation System (NAS); and to provide technology and procedure developers
with reliable predictions of the systemwide effects of the changes they are introducing into the NAS.

Cognitive Performance in Aviation Training and Operations

We are studying the cognitive processes that underlie the performance of pilots, air traffic controllers, and other skilled professionals. This research involves a combination of well-controlled laboratory studies of basic cognitive mechanisms, theoretical modeling, flight simulation studies, field observations, and analysis of accident reports.

Distributed Team Decision-Making

The objective of the DTDM project is to improve mission safety by 1) determining the effects of task/crew-related stressors on team performance 2) developing technologies to detect psychosocial dysfunction in teams and 3) identifying effective team interaction strategies as countermeasures to assure mission success.

EAS - Emergency, Abnormal, and Off-nominal Situations (EAS) Study

Through EAS we bring together knowledge of human learning and performance under high stress and high workload conditions, an analysis of the nature of emergency, abnormal, and off-nominal conditions, and an understanding of the operational contexts in which they occur to inform the design, evaluation, implementation, and training of procedures with the goal of improving aviation safety and the safety of space operations.

Fatigue Countermeasures Group
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In 1980, responding to a Congressional request, NASA Ames Research Center created a program to examine whether "there is a safety problem of uncertain magnitude, due to transmeridian flying and a potential problem due to fatigue in association with various factors found in air transport operations." The NASA Ames Fatigue/Jet Lag Program was created to collect systematic, scientific information on fatigue, sleep, circadian rhythms, and performance in flight operations.

Performance Data Analysis and Reporting System (PDARS)

PDARS is a joint FAA-NASA effort that is an element of the ASMM Project to develop the technologies that enable a system-wide capability to monitor day-to-day operations of
the National Airspace System (NAS) and to measure ATCís delivery of services to ensure that they are safe, efficient, and meet the needs of its customers.