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Oceanit proposes to scale-up processes for low cost obscurant materials. These processes include the development , fabrication, and testing of materials and coatings.

Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) due to consumption of contaminated shellfish is an increasing problem is the coastal waters of the United States, particularly in New England and the Pacific Ocean. The symptoms of PSP include vomiting, diarrhea, shortness of breath, confusion, and loss of coordination in both marine animals and humans. In severe cases, PSP toxins can cause respiratory failure a ...

Commercial marine aquaculture operators face many operational hazards including disease, predators, husbandry operations, and environmental changes. Most of theses risks are only identified with constant surveillance and physical presence at a farm site. However, human observation of risk factors is expensive, slow, and sometimes ineffective. Sensors are available to monitor individual environment ...

Reliance on fishmeal and fish oil is a significant constraint to aquaculture expansion in America, and globally. As U.S. marine fish farming expands, genetic improvements could increase economic performance and decrease ecological footprint. This is critically important to sustainability, scalability and profitability of the industry, and is key to attracting capital investment. Commercial opportu ...

EpiBone is a company engineering living, anatomically precise and functionally mature skeletal grafts from autologous stem cells. Cartilage injuries affect approximately 900K Americans with >400K procedures performed every year. Cartilage lesions are frequently associated with other articular injuries and can progress to joint degeneration and osteoarthritis (OA). OA affects20% Americans with cost ...

Automated software assurance tools are critical for finding vulnerabilities or malicious code in Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software and systems, but current tools do not address the threats posed by modern, heterogeneous runtime systems such as distributed/cloud computing or Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerated code. Many tools require source code access, which may not be available. Ex ...

Modern software systems increasingly use specialized hardware such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and other types of hardware accelerators to run more efficiently. The use of this specialized hardware opens up new cyber-attack vectors and creates opportunities for hiding malware from existing tools for malware analysis and detection. We propose to design and build an automated analysis tool t ...

In Phase I, Ambient Logic will create a Geospatial Sound Model (GSM) that estimates multiple indicators of the background noise across the contiguous United States (CONUS). Given either latitude/longitude coordinates or an address, the GSM will provide the daytime ambient noise spectrum in one-third octave bands, the DNL, and the A-weighted Leq for all 24 hours. Prediction accuracy of these metric ...

Bennett Advanced Research proposes to use advances in intelligent power control and management to balance loads and manage assets on a forward operating base or other tactical environment to ensure that the power provided is stable and consistent.

The army is seeking a new and novel generation of precision munitions that do not rely solely on GPS for targeting and guidance. The weapons systems proposed herein will utilize GPS, however, they will also be capable of operating in GPS denied environments. These munitions will function using both visual feedback derived from real time telemetry, manual selection of target using touch screen tech ...