The CORMIT project focused on monitoring corrosion in the seawater pipe systems of ships in the U.S. Navy's fleet. Working with the University of Louisville, KBSI developed a multi-fusion software system to monitor pipe corrosion and improve ship maintenance efficiency.

In the course of the CORMIT research and development, KBSI performed a number of experiments on the embedding of platinum electrodes into gaskets. After realizing the life cycle limitations of oxygen, pH, and chlorine sensors, KBSI began exploring alternate mechanisms of non-intrusive gasket condition detection. These mechanisms rather than embedding sensors in the gasket, focused instead on locating sensors on the periphery of the gasket. Such sensors observe signals on the boundary of an element to decipher what is occurring inside the bulk volume. The resulting SmartGasket technology computes the pressure distribution in a gasket by observing signals from the outer periphery.

The SmartGasket technology has a number of other applications, including their use in checking inside valves and other SWP components and in the detection of seawater corrosion in ship piping.