Metis Flight Research Associates (MFRA) employees were recognized at the 2023 NASA Presidential Rank & NASA Honor Awards Ceremony held at Ames Research Center on May 22, 2024 as members of the ARCTIC 3 simulation team. ARCTIC 3, the U.S. Army’s Advanced Rotorcraft Configurations Test of Increased Capabilities project, involves research in advanced vertical-lift aircraft […]
Metis Flight Research Associates LLC (MFRA) has been named the 2023 NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year. MFRA serves as prime contractor on the Technical Services for Aerospace Systems Modeling and Simulation (SimLabs) III contract, operating and maintaining world class aerospace and aviation simulation facilities. 2023 is the third
NASA LaRC Simulation Development and Analysis Branch facilities and labs support numerous important NASA UAS/UAM technology development projects such as City Environment for Range Testing of Autonomous Integrated Navigation. The Integration and Validation Laboratory (SIVL) is a key asset for conducting hardware-in-loop simulation-to-flight missions for the agency. Members of the MFRA NASA-LaRC Simulation & Aircraft
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MFRA was honored to have been a sponsor of the Women and Drones Emerging Aviation Technology Awards ceremony held this week at CES 2023. Women And Drones is the leading membership organization dedicated to driving excellence in the UAS/AAM industry by advocating for female participation in this dynamic segment of the global economy. The organization
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Metis Flight Research Associates (MFRA) has been named the 2022 NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year. MFRA serves as prime contractor on the Technical Services for Aerospace Systems Modeling and Simulation (SimLabs) III contract, operating and maintaining world class aerospace and aviation simulation facilities. 2022 is the second year
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Mountain View, CA – September 21, 2022 – Metis Flight Research Associates (MFRA), the prime contractor on the SimLabs contract at Ames Research Center (ARC), assisted our NASA customer in hosting the agency’s Associate Administrator Bob Cabana when he toured SimLabs facilities during his visit to Ames on September 21. SimLabs is a high-visibility program
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Hampton, VA – June 8, 2022 – Metis Flight Research Associates (MFRA) employees on the Simulation and Aircraft Services (SAS) contract at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) have led the successful completion of pilot evaluation data collection for the Human Contributions to Safety simulation project. The objective of the Human Contributions to Safety study is
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Metis Flight Research Associates (MFRA) employees working on the Technical Services for Aerospace Systems Modeling and Simulation (SimLabs) III contract at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) have received high praise from the U.S. Army for their role in successfully concluding advanced vertical-lift aircraft simulation testing. The testing, occurring as part of the Advanced Rotorcraft Configurations
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On October 12, NASA Ames SimLabs was honored to host NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo as they toured the Future Flight Central (FFC) air traffic control tower simulation for the first time. The focus of their FFC visit NASA’s Airspace Technology Demonstration 2 (ATD-2), which came to a
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This month, NASA Ames Research Center will hold its 2021 Honor Awards ceremony in Mountain View, California. In total, 20 employees of the MFRA SimLabs contract team were members of three teams receiving group achievement Honor Awards for outstanding performance in supporting the NASA mission. MFRA staff on the Ames SimLabs contract are honored as
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