NASA offers industry the rights to commercialize software used to validate inspection systems under the agency’s technology transfer program

NASAs Langley Research Center developed software that enables users of inspections systems to validate the capability of the inspection system. NASA is offering to share the software with industry under the agency’s technology transfer program

Traditionally, inspection systems are validated using various methodologies to determine probability of detection. 

One widely accepted metric of an adequate inspection system is that there is 95% confidence that the probability of detection is greater than 90%. 

Directed Design of Experiments for Probability of Detection (DOEPOD) is a user-friendly software package that enables detailed analysis of 90 to 95%. 

Although it was designed to validate the capability of inspection systems to find fracture-critical flaws in materials, software can be applied to systems to locate any type of flaw as well as to validate the detection capability of personnel. It can also be employed as the core of an nondestruction evaluation system and provide accurate on-demand validation of the inspection system.

Private companies interest in this opportunity must submit a license application through NASA’s Automated Technology Licensing Application System (ATLAS) by visiting https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/LAR-TOPS-82

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