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This proposal for Phase II in response to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) topic 212-006 “Algorithm that can locally link radiation detectors (of different resolutions) to enhance identification/ localization capability”. The topic describes the need for an algorithm to support the fusion of multiple and varied detector outputs into actionable information. The specific focus is to id ...

In this project, Oceanit will build and demonstrate a powerful solution that can automatically determine the exhaustive set of embedded devices impacted by publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, beyond those enumerated in public disclosures.

The proposed FLASH-CSI is a disruptive technology designed to be quickly implemented into existing, remote, or mobile production facilities for in-line sterility testing of manufactured biological products. With savings of time and cost, and utilizing minimal sample volumes, this fully sealed aseptic testing platform is expected to outperform current methods and return quantitative results within ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) uses a number of acoustic systems required for communication and sensing applications subsea. In order to most effectively use these acoustic systems, there must be a good understanding of the sound speed throughout the water column. The water temperature and salinity profiles vs. depth are the critical factors that influence the speed of sound in a body of wat ...

There is a growing need to accurately characterize nuclear materials not only for nuclear safeguards and nonproliferation treaty verification but also for forensics and provenance. At present, nuclear material identification requires samples to be collected and sent to laboratories for analysis using large and expensive equipment, such as inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP-MS) or s ...

As autonomy, duration, and complexity of UUV missions increases, so too does the need for access to higher fidelity simulation and planning tools to ensure mission critical success. Advanced UUV fleets are critical for maintaining future subsea military dominance, and the availability of suitable simulation environments for technology and autonomy development is limited, in part due to the signifi ...

The goal of this project entitled Assembling the PDK for a PZT piezoMEMS Process is for Radiant to verify its PZT pMEMS process and complete the associated Process Design Kit (PDK) in order to support DoD prototyping and low volume production of piezoelectric MEMS components.  In Phase 1, Radiant verified a photolithographic mask set holding a plethora of piezoMEMS device architectures and constr ...

Current deep-sea profiling gliders and buoys are designed for maximum dive cycles with high fidelity sampling rates, which limits vertical dive and assent velocities to approximately 0.1 m/s.  Designed for oceanographic measurement proficiency, affordability, and endurance leaves available profiling systems deficient in performance metrics of interest to DoD specific missions. The family of exist ...

The current Space Surveillance Network (SSN) is projected to soon be unable to track all manmade Low Earth Orbit (LEO) objects. Unprecedentedly large constellations of satellites will exponentially grow the number of LEO objects, and simply adding more sensors to the SSN to keep pace with the proliferation in LEO is a cost-prohibitive proposition. This research proposes to address the proliferatio ...

Oceanit proposes to leverage AI technologies to accelerate and improve the development of aptamer-based biosensors that specifically bind to biomolecular structures. Aptamers are short single-stranded nucleic acid sequences that bind to three-dimensional biomolecular structures in a way similar to antibodies. Aptamers however have several advantages as compared to antibodies, including long shelf- ...