USCG operators must be able to communicate with vessel occupants - many who may be non-English speakers - while performing a variety of rescue and investigative missions. The accurate and swift translation of information is critical to the safety and security of Coast Guard boarding teams and vessel occupants. The DHS’s Science and Technology Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) Language Translator solicitation sought new capabilities to support the Coast Guard in facilitating real-time communications with non-English speakers and those who are unable to communicate verbally. The solicitation also included requirements for language translation technology to be capable of operating both online and offline because many Coast Guard interactions take place in extreme environmental conditions, and in locations without cell service or an internet connection. There are two performers, myLanguage and Kynamics, who have designed an online/offline voice-to-text speech recognition and text-to-text translation system that employs deep learning and artificial intelligence. myLanguage completed Phase I and Kynamics completed Phase 2, adapting their voice translation technologies for use into a rugged, hand-held mobile device that can withstand extreme temperatures and, customized model designs and training language models to fit Coast Guard use cases.