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Oceanit proposes to develop a wearable capability for autonomous indoor navigation and tracking of first responders indoors in various types of building structures.

Remote identity proofing is the process of uniquely verifying an individual that is a party to an online transaction. The degree of difficulty is compounded when attempting to authenticate for the first time a previously unknown individual. This presents an enormous challenge to the secure delivery of online commerce and Government services. In Phase I CardSmart Technologies introduced the nove ...

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 ...

The proposal addresses the problem of bi-directional synchronization of data between devices operating in an austere environment and servers in the cloud (in an enterprise type environment) or cloudlets (Humvees, drones, small ships, or other mobile platforms). A highly flexible and scalable architectural framework called Hierarchical Sync is proposed for addressing the challenges and requirements ...

The proposed concept is a software utility tool that resides on each of the client and server. The coordinating apps implement a delta transfer protocol, plus multiplexing data transfers over multiple network paths. It is a concept and tool for a system for prepositioning and synchronizing data between file systems deployed across austere environments and for commercial or private cloud enterprise ...

The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) trains, equips and deploys Special Operations Forces (SOF) to worldwide locations to advance the nation's interests. The reality of worldwide operations requires a worldwide intelligence gathering and analysis capability, a processing capability and a way to disseminate actionable intelligence to operational units. Our solution will directly supp ...

When imaging over long distances, atmospheric turbulence between the camera and subject degrades the collected data limiting the effective resolution, regardless of the quality of the optic and sensor used. This reduction in image quality can have serious impacts on the ability to carry out missions by reducing situational awareness and preventing target identification. EM Photonics has been worki ...

Current bioaerosol monitoring strategies rely on inertia-based sampling and suffer from high power consumption and low efficiency limitations. In contrast, our overall objective is to design and demonstrate a novel electrostatic sampler that provides dramatic improvements including low power requirement (90% for 1-10mm), high viability (>80%), scalability for varying threat scenarios, low noise, a ...

This proposal addresses the need for thin, strippable and fast drying coatings for decontaminating surfaces exposed to wide-area toxic industrial chemicals. The goal is to encapsulate and neutralize the hazardous agents by using a low cost film, which is peeled from the surface after drying. The technical approach entails the formulation and evaluation of high molecular weight emulsion polymers w ...