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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 ...

Corvid Technologies will develop in-situ instrumentation to measure key physical states in reacting high explosives. The emerging measurement capability will provide state information to support lethality analysis by enabling equation of state development for computational models, as well as fast-running engineering codes for evaluating HE response to stimuli. Development of internal temperature ...

Bennett Advanced Research of Raleigh, NC propose to demonstrate the procedure for validating, qualifying and predicting part quality and allowing for the certification of parts made via additive manufacturing (AM). We will focus on non-critical parts for affordable missile defense applications. Approved for Public Release | 16-MDA-8917 (15 November 16)

Corvid proposes the development of a physics-based Artificial Scene Generator (ASG) and associated Material Delivery System (MDS) software control loop that can adapt to variable target dynamics, environmental conditions, MDS deployment settings, and missile defense sensor scene requirements. Corvid teams existing physics-based modeling tools will be leveraged to model all aspects of the MDS and ...

Initial research into potential in-situ KA sensor technologies has uncovered viable sensor technologies and demonstrated the existence of exploitable features that could discriminate between objects of similar shape and size, but very different materials and internal structure. A few different KA sensor types have been hypothesized and it is likely that more than one sensor type is necessary to co ...

The primary objective of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II proposed effort is to develop and test Post-Intercept Assessment (PIA) strategies and feature calculation methodologies using high-fidelity, physics-based (hydro-code) modeling of missile defense engagements. The effort will leverage emerging SBIR/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) technologies being developed ...

The proposed work improves modeling impact and sensor response. More accurate predictions of the relevant debris scenes will be accomplished by improving material characterization methods, implementing new numerical damage mechanisms, and utilizing those mechanisms with enhanced material modeling capabilities to evaluate the tearing response. Additionally, improvements regarding simulated sensor ...

In this PhaseII SBIR effort, Corvid Technologies completes the development of an innovative approach for solving Unstructured Fixed Grid Navier-Stokes CFD flow simulations. The proposed approach developed at Corvid is referred to as the Virtual Geometry Insertion (VGI) technique. This approach allows for the virtual insertion of arbitrary geometric components into a standard CFD analysis. This g ...