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Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is actively involved in the safe transportation of energy and hazardous material that are vital to daily lives. This also includes underground natural gas storage (UNGS) maintenance and safe operation which are critical to nation's energy infrastructure. Enhancing leak detection and identifying smart ways to prevent potential well blow ...

Satellite platforms play a critical role in the modern defense and intelligence infrastructure, providing timely, detailed, and readily available imagery to support U.S. national security. An ever present and fundamental requirement for this type of data is automated target detection and recognition, helping to quickly locate and correctly identify targets from vast quantities of image data. Despi ...

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.

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 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 ...

Satellite platforms play a critical role in the modern defense and intelligence infrastructure, providing timely, detailed, and readily available imagery to support U.S. national security. A fundamental requirement for this type of data is automated target detection and recognition, helping analysts to quickly locate and correctly identify targets of interest from vast quantities of image data. De ...

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 ...

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- ...

Crushed aggregate is used as railroad ballast, drainage and stabilization material. Fouling of this aggregate reduces its performance: it loses its ability to drain water resulting in reduced strength. Substructure failure is a leading cause of rail accidents and it is a strategic priority to develop new methods for monitoring ballast condition. The challenge is that aggregate fouling does not pre ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are quickly becoming ubiquitous in both civilian and military products. Self-driving vehicles are a fast-approaching critical application of newly developed AI. Most automotive industry leaders are preparing for a near-term future where autonomous self-driving vehicles are deployed for commercial and personal use. On the military side, self-driving vehicles red ...