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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.

In this Phase I SBIR program, Tetramer Technologies will develop new, commercially attractive, highly monodisperse polystyrene latex standards in a variety of sizes (i.e. 30 nm to 100 nm) via emulsion polymerization processes that employ a surfactant and that are surfactant-free. Surfactant free emulsions will be stabilized through the use of ionic comonomers in the emulsion polymerization. The fo ...

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 proposed study will evaluate the feasibility of producing a low acoustic emission propulsion unit for fixed wing UAV applications, utilizing optimized propeller designs matched to a low cylinder count small reciprocating engine. Acoustic performance will be enhanced by operating the propeller at reduced speed with high advance while improving the operating point of the coupled engine and furt ...

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 ...

Prioria is proposing a family of aircraft configurations to address USSOCOM's requirements. Achieving the significant endurance, range, winds, and payload requirements simultaneously requires a highly-optimized aircraft. The configurations range in endurance, robustness, and capability. Configuration 1 is a sturdy fixed-wing aircraft that achieves moderate endurance but can tolerate rough handl ...

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 ...

The goal of this contract is to develop sniper, machine gun, and carbine variant lightweight cased intermediate caliber rounds of ammunition that will provide an overmatch against all current 7.62mm and below military calibers used by opposing forces. The innovative variant caliber rounds developed under this SBIR effort also anticipate reducing the weight of the Unites States used AA11 7.62 snipe ...