MIDAS Technology Transfer

This paper discusses recent research activities associated with the transfer of the Army-NASA Man/Machine Integration Design and Analysis System (MIDAS) technologies to Boeing Helicopters. It describes the nature of the Army-NASA/Boeing Technical Exchange Agreement (TEA) and the benefits of this collaboration. The paper also introduces supplemental software developed at Boeing, entitled the MIDAS/Systems Analysis Tool (M/SAT). M/SAT provides a method for Boeing Human Factors analysts and NASA system developers to exercise and test the Task Loading Model, a critical module of the MIDAS architecture.