TRISH seeks an operational tool (software and/or hardware) that can assess an astronaut's readiness-to-perform and provide such information on-the-fly to help empower decision-making during mission-relevant activities.
The goal of this RFP is to procure an assessment tool capable of evaluating an individual’s current readiness-to-perform. We anticipate this assessment tool will involve non-disruptive and minimally-obtrusive sensors to monitor the users’ state. The assessment should consider multiple factors, including but not limited to attention, fatigue, workload, stress, and drowsiness. Additional metrics—including those that may assess cognitive status—would further enhance the tool’s usefulness.
This tool will deliver an on-the-fly assessment of this state while the crew member performs ongoing mission activities (i.e., without requiring the user to interrupt their current activities to take a test). The tool must provide easily understood and ideally continuous output to help identify changes in the individual’s state over time. This data should be available to the user and/or support personnel to enable improved decision-making. Such information could, for example, aid mission directors in task management and real-time planning, or could even be used directly by astronauts themselves, allowing them to track and manage their own behavioral resources (e.g., knowing when they should slow down to avoid premature burnout). Ideally, the tool would provide insights and recommendations to help enhance the user’s performance and mitigate potential health and safety risks.
TRISH anticipates that such a tool would be beneficial not only to astronauts on space missions but also to workers in a variety of other extreme environments or intense and high-consequence work settings. Potential users of the tool could include commercial spaceflight participants, governmental employees including professional astronauts, commercial space providers, or analog environment participants, such as the Antarctic winter-over crews.
The overarching goal is to enhance the well-being and performance of users engaged in critical tasks within demanding environments. By enabling greater independence and facilitating optimal performance, this readiness assessment tool can help users perform at their fullest capabilities.
Please review the following documents below for further information on this opportunity:
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) posted 09/24/2024
Pre-Proposal Briefing Slide Deck
Pre-Proposal Briefing Recording (Please download the recording to enable skipping ahead within the video)
Eligibility
All categories of United States (U.S.) institutions and companies are eligible to submit proposals. Principal Investigators (PIs) may collaborate with universities, the private sector, and federal, state, and local government laboratories. In all such arrangements, the applying entity is expected to be responsible for administering the project according to the management approach presented in the proposal. For our policy on international proposers and institutions, please refer to the FAQ and FAR Supplement.
B-SAT - Brain State Assessment Tool
TRISH seeks an operational tool (software and/or hardware) that can assess an astronaut's readiness-to-perform and provide such information on-the-fly to help empower decision-making during mission-relevant activities.
The goal of this RFP is to procure an assessment tool capable of evaluating an individual’s current readiness-to-perform. We anticipate this assessment tool will involve non-disruptive and minimally-obtrusive sensors to monitor the users’ state. The assessment should consider multiple factors, including but not limited to attention, fatigue, workload, stress, and drowsiness. Additional metrics—including those that may assess cognitive status—would further enhance the tool’s usefulness.
This tool will deliver an on-the-fly assessment of this state while the crew member performs ongoing mission activities (i.e., without requiring the user to interrupt their current activities to take a test). The tool must provide easily understood and ideally continuous output to help identify changes in the individual’s state over time. This data should be available to the user and/or support personnel to enable improved decision-making. Such information could, for example, aid mission directors in task management and real-time planning, or could even be used directly by astronauts themselves, allowing them to track and manage their own behavioral resources (e.g., knowing when they should slow down to avoid premature burnout). Ideally, the tool would provide insights and recommendations to help enhance the user’s performance and mitigate potential health and safety risks.
TRISH anticipates that such a tool would be beneficial not only to astronauts on space missions but also to workers in a variety of other extreme environments or intense and high-consequence work settings. Potential users of the tool could include commercial spaceflight participants, governmental employees including professional astronauts, commercial space providers, or analog environment participants, such as the Antarctic winter-over crews.
The overarching goal is to enhance the well-being and performance of users engaged in critical tasks within demanding environments. By enabling greater independence and facilitating optimal performance, this readiness assessment tool can help users perform at their fullest capabilities.
Please review the following documents below for further information on this opportunity:
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) posted 09/24/2024
Pre-Proposal Briefing Slide Deck
Pre-Proposal Briefing Recording (Please download the recording to enable skipping ahead within the video)
Eligibility
All categories of United States (U.S.) institutions and companies are eligible to submit proposals. Principal Investigators (PIs) may collaborate with universities, the private sector, and federal, state, and local government laboratories. In all such arrangements, the applying entity is expected to be responsible for administering the project according to the management approach presented in the proposal. For our policy on international proposers and institutions, please refer to the FAQ and FAR Supplement.