A NASA Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract awarded to Qualtech Systems Inc. supported work connecting fault management and system health management with model-based systems engineering, according to a NASA Science report published Aug 25, 2026. The team incorporated fault management concepts into Systems Modeling Language v2 specifications and showed that SysML v2 models could be translated into the failure-space models used by its TEAMS toolset.

The demonstration used early design information from HelioSwarm, a planned mission of one hub spacecraft and eight co-orbiting small satellites intended to make simultaneous multiscale measurements of magnetic-field fluctuations and proton flows in cislunar space. From a SysML v2 model of HelioSwarm subsystems and top-level requirements, mission designers generated failure modes, effects and criticality analyses and fault trees, translated into a standardized SysML report, and produced recommendations such as sensor placement as proposed design updates.

NASA said the toolset was baselined for Vehicle Systems Management functions on the Gateway project. The report also describes potential applications for future autonomous NASA missions and non-NASA complex systems, including military platforms, commercial space systems, aircraft, maritime systems and power generation equipment.