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This Phase II research expands Phase I research on Saccharina latissima and is to design and develop “seed” nursery methodologies for the development of commercial-scale production of juvenile kelp plants including Alaria esculenta and Laminaria digitata. The project objectives include: 1. Isolate and maintain cultures of New England species of Alaria esculenta and laminaria digitata to be use ...

Over 300 HF RADARs worldwide are producing ocean surface data that is used in oil spill response, search & rescue, vessel traffic management, and research. In the U.S. there are 100+ systems supplying real-time data to the Coast Guard, NOAA IOOS, OR&R and other operational groups. To provide the highest quality data to stakeholders, systems should be calibrated by measuring the receive antenna p ...

Oscilla Power, Inc. (OPI) is developing a utility-scale wave energy harvester that is enabled by low cost and readily-available magnetostrictive alloys. T his device, which utilizes no moving parts, has the potential to deliver predictable quantities of electric power to coastal utilities, industrial users, and remote facilities at costs competitive with coal or gas. The Phase I project demonstra ...

The purpose of this project is to develop new language training methods that help guard against language skill decay, and help recover from skill decay when it has occurred. It leverages previous DoD and ONR investments in language learning technology, but it focuses squarely on the language attrition problem. In addition to providing language training that is resistant to decay, it pays particula ...

There is an obvious and urgent incentive to improve the abilities of military leaders. The problem we address in this proposal is how to provide useful training in a simulated decision environment, in order to improve the situation awareness of leaders.There also appears to be a move towards more distributed command and control, thus, the need is to provide training that will help commanders buil ...

Interim Phase Status. Currently this Phase is in progress, and the planning documents required are in progress. This document is one of the deliverables of the Interim Phase. Phase 2 Focus. Phase 2 is focused on implementing adaptive technology andsupplemental curriculum for Anatomy and Physiology. Although commercialization issues are important, most of these issues will be deferred to the Commer ...

Three challenges must be addressed in order to develop efficient hardware compression of video data for Distributed Interactive Simulation: (1) 10 microsecond latency requires supercomputer power; (2) the compression algorithm must be developed carefullyin order to preserve low latency and high image quality at the same time; (3) asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) interfaces must be optimized to se ...

Accurate and timely measurement of the developing environment toxicity is of great importance for general pollution control and for military operations. Biosensors, which are based on a combination of biological sensing element and an electronic signaltransducer, are finding a wide spread use in the environment toxicity measurements. Standard statistical approaches used commonly in the analysis of ...

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High performance tactical decision-making requires commanders to apply detailed and situation-specific knowledge, as well as high-level thinking habits and skills applicable across diverse tactical situations. These skills include modeling a thinkingenemy, using all available assets, and considering how the commander's fight fits into the bigger picture from friendly and enemy perspectives. Such ...