APT Research, Inc. (APT) is pleased to be part of the ARES Team that was just awarded the Safety and Mission Assurance Services (SMAS) III contract for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and Wallops Flight Facility. The 5-year total contract is valued at up to $226 million to provide independent surveillance, audits, and assessments that help ensure the success and safety of NASA’s missions from design through launch. APT is honored to continue our partnership with the ARES Team and NASA to advance their mission of exploration and discovery, while assuring a safe and sustainable space economy.
Image Credits: NASA Goddard/Bill Hrybyk
APT was established in 1990 and is an employee-owned, small business with headquarters in Huntsville, AL, and multiple domestic sites including a significant presence in Florida and Texas. APT provides safety and mission assurance (SMA) focused specialty engineering services to government and industry partners. Our SMA expertise includes system safety, reliability/availability/maintainability, quality engineering/assurance, software system safety/assurance, independent verification and validation (IV&V), software development and modeling, artificial intelligence / machine learning (AI/ML) safety, range safety, explosives safety, airworthiness, risk analysis, training and workforce development, and related areas. We also have expertise in developing the full lifecycle suite of program/project SMA documentation, plans, tailored requirements, milestone artifacts, and phase safety review data packages/deliverables/presentations, etc. and our SMA processes align with standard, model based, and agile system engineering processes. Our personnel are owners and each share in the commitment to APT’s corporate mission of continually providing state-of-the-art expertise and ensuring the highest level of customer satisfaction.