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Lightship provided software engineering services to CMR, supporting a research and development effort to enhance existing functionality in an embedded data acquisition system. Lightship, with CMR, developed a VxWorks device driver for a new video capture board, which will enabled them to increase the number of broadcast frequencies monitored and to capture color video data at a higher resolution. It fell to Lightship to research the latest image capture boards and design a distributed video acquisition system to meet CMR defined requirements of enhancing the quality and size of the video data captured. Lightship also designed and developed the software to archive audio/video signature data to an AVI file for review at a later date, this software was instrumental in verifying the integrity of the data collected as enhancement to the existing system are implemented. Lightship designed and developed software enhancements to an existing video clip display application to include the display of proprietary audio/video signature data. Both of the above tasks were instrumental in supporting the evaluation of new audio/video capture devices into the existing data acquisition system. Lightship developed a web interface to support remote maintenance activity on the CMR embedded data acquisition system. The project involved integrating an open source web server into the real-time operations environment of the embedded data acquisition system that greatly enhanced the user interface and maintenance functionality.