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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 ...

The development of a dual band miniature high power RF amplifier for a combined radio pair is critical for data transmission in small platforms. Many high power radios are bulky and expensive which limits the use to sizeable platforms only. The objective of this project is to design a miniature dual high power UHF/L-band radio set in a small form factor to be capable of being installed on many dif ...

Oceanit proposes a modular data flow architecture for processing video and still image data. This system will be able to support both the high speed demands of live streaming data and the high volume demands of archival data processing. The system provides detailed control of threading and supports parallel processing on a number of different levels.

Subsequent Phase II Proposal, extension of Phase II contract N00039-12-C-0082. This contract involves the development of an underwater vehicle that can reliably and autonomously interconnect power and data cables to undersea nodes after they have been deployed. The Auto-Docking Autonomous Burial Vehicle (AD-ABV) is a cable-connecting adaptation of Makais proven ABV, which has been successfully dem ...

To improve radome materials, design approaches, and manufacturing methods, in this Phase II SBIR effort, Voxtel will optimize low-loss wave-impedance-tunable and complex-dielectrically-tunable nanocomposites and will demonstrate highly reliable additive-manufacturing (AM) methods for fabricating radomes with heterogenous compositions and complex geometries. Proof-of-concept planar and complex-geom ...

Phase II of this program builds on the remarkable progress that was made in Phase I toward the development of single crystal GaN films grown on polycrystalline diamond substrates. As the overall goal of the program is related to the development of a low-cost manufacturing process to produce GaN on diamond templates for RFIC applications, our technical objectives are pointed toward this goal. In Ph ...

Oceanit proposes a novel system for identifying airborne targets using EO/IR sensors.

The Marine Corps needs a high-speed shallow-draft connector, such as the T-EPF (formerly designated JHSV), that can splash-off launch and recover (L&R) AAVs/ACVs within three miles from shore through Sea State 3; the current T-EPF is limited to L&R in Sea State 1 due to structural limitations of the stern ramp. In Phase I, we developed a modular buoyant kit (MBK) concept that uses strategically-pl ...

Current dive helmet communications systems are built on dated technology and can produce undesirable levels of noise in the helmet and at topside stations from several sources. Additionally, speech intelligibility is reduced in many situations putting divers at further risk. In this Phase II effort, Oceanit will develop and test prototype technologies for dive communications systems initially demo ...

We propose software brittleness as a layer of cyber-defense in depth for software systems. Brittle programs crash quickly when under attack, which helps prevent attackers from subverting systems through security flaws. We use binary rewriting to add brittleness to programs, providing low overhead security to both legacy and newly-developed systems. Brittleness is a property of programs that provid ...