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Award ID | Description | Recipient | Total Value | Awarding Agency | Funding Agency | Set Aside | NAICS | PSC | Award Date | Start Date | End Date | |
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| THIS CONTRACT IS FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE SERVICES. THE CONTRACTOR WILL ADHERE TO A DOCUMENTED ITERATIVE AND INCREMENTAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS THAT, AT A MACRO LEVEL, FIRST ESTABLISHES CORE REQUIREMENTS, THEN DEVELOPS A MODEL OF THE DESIRED BEHAVIOR, CREATES AN ARCHITECTURE, EVOLVES THE IMPLEMENTATION, AND FINALLY MANAGES POST-DELIVERY EVOLUTION. AT A MICRO LEVEL, ENGINEERS PRACTICE OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN METHODOLOGY AND FOLLOW AN AGILE "RELEASE EARLY AND OFTEN" DEVELOPMENT CYCLE. IN CASES SUCH AS THIS, WHERE SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS SUCH AS NU-WRF ARE ADAPTED FOR EXECUTION ON FRONTIER AND THE M&SAAS EXTENSION, IT IS THE CONTRACTOR'S PRACTICE TO DESIGN AND BUILD ALL ASPECTS OF THE SOFTWARE TO BE EXTENSIBLE, SO THAT SUBSEQUENT APPLICATION ADAPTATION EFFORTS BENEFIT FROM CODE REUSE. OUR DEVELOPMENT PROCESS ALSO PRODUCES DOCUMENTATION ARTIFACTS THROUGHOUT A PROJECT'S LIFE-CYCLE, WHICH WILL COMPRISE THE BULK OF THE DOCUMENTATION PROVIDED FOR THIS PROJECT. IF RESOURCES PERMIT, WE ALSO HOPE TO DEVELOP ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION IN THE FORM OF VIDEOS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO HELP STUDENTS RUN NU-WRF WITHOUT THE NEED FOR OUTSIDE ASSISTANCE. THE CONTRACTOR WILL PREPARE A COMPREHENSIVE PROJECT PLAN FOR THE PHASE III PROJECTS USING MICROSOFT PROJECT PROFESSIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE PACKAGE. | PARABON COMPUTATION, INC. | $270,442 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541511Custom Computer Programming Services | 7030 | May 2, 2012 | Nov 2, 2012 | Mar 31, 2015 | ||
| THIS SBIR PHASE 2 PROJECT WILL PRODUCE A SOFTWARE SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT ENABLES MOST MODELING AND SIMULATION (M&S) ACTIVITIES FROM CODE DEVELOPMENT AND COMPILATION TO RUNTIME EXECUTION AND COLLABORATION TO BE PERFORMED FROM A STANDARD WEB BROWSER ACROSS CLOUD- AND GRID-ENABLED COMPUTING RESOURCES. BY ADDRESSING THE SECURITY, SCALABILITY AND VIRTUALIZATION CHALLENGES THAT HAVE HERETOFORE PREVENTED SERVICE-CENTRIC M&S FROM BEING PRACTICAL, THIS FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND MODELING AND SIMULATION AS A SERVICE (M&SAAS) PLATFORM WILL ALLOW M&S USERS AND DEVELOPERS ALIKE TO AVOID MANY OF THE OBSTACLES THAT CURRENTLY CONFOUND THE DELIVERY, ACCESSIBILITY AND USABILITY OF TRADITIONAL, NON-SERVICE-ORIENTED M&S SOFTWARE. | PARABON COMPUTATION, INC. | $749,993 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541712 | AR11SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH | Jan 12, 2010 | Jan 12, 2010 | Nov 30, 2012 | ||
| COMPONENTIZED MODELS AS A SERVICE (CMAAS) THIS SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PHASE I PROJECT, WHICH WILL CONCLUDE WITH A TECHNICAL READINESS LEVEL OF 3-4, WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF THE COMPONENTIZED MODELS AS A SERVICE (CMAAS) SYSTEM, A WEB-CENTRIC SOFTWARE SERVICE ARCHITECTURE THAT WILL DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE THE MANNER IN WHICH NASA'S MODELING ASSETS ARE DEVELOPED, DEPLOYED AND USED. UNDER THIS SERVICE ARCHITECTURE, MODELS WILL BE EXPOSED AS WEB SERVICES THAT ARE FULLY CONFIGURABLE AND EXECUTABLE FROM A BROWSER. MOREOVER, THE SOFTWARE COMPONENTS FROM WHICH MODELS ARE COMPRISED WILL BE PUBLISHED AS "PLUGGABLE" SERVICE MODULES THAT CAN BE DISCOVERED AND INCORPORATED INTO A MODEL AT RUNTIME VIA A NOVEL DYNAMIC BUILD MECHANISM. IMPORTANTLY, EXISTING MODELS AND COMPONENTS WILL REQUIRE LITTLE TO NO MODIFICATION TO BE DEPLOYED ON THE SERVICE. THE PROJECT WILL LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPED FOR THE FRONTIER DASHBOARD, AN EXTANT BROWSER INTERFACE TO AND SUPPORTING FRAMEWORK FOR PARABON'S COMMERCIAL GRID COMPUTING SERVICE. CONSTRUCTED WITH GOOGLETM WEB TOOLKIT (GWT) COMPONENTS, THE FRONTIER DASHBOARD PROVIDES END USERS WITH A RICH BROWSER INTERFACE FOR MANAGING LARGE-SCALE COMPUTATIONAL JOBS. MOREOVER, IT PROVIDES DEVELOPERS PRE-BUILT MECHANISMS FOR USER AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION, ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT, AND ACCOUNTING, WHICH GREATLY EASES THE BURDENS OF CREATING WEB SERVICE APPLICATIONS. | PARABON COMPUTATION, INC. | $99,419 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541712 | AR11SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH | Jan 17, 2009 | Jan 22, 2009 | Jul 22, 2009 |