28 March 2024 NRL’s Sungrazer Project Discovers 5000th Comet WASHINGTON — On March 25, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Sungrazer Project reached a remarkable milestone – the discovery of its 5,000th comet in data from the joint European Space Agency – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (ESA-NASA) Solar and...
27 March 2024 NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support Achieves Engine Readiness Goals PHILIDELPHIA— NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support (NAVSUP WSS) led the charge to ensure the Navy’s F414 engines meet engine readiness goals in support of the overarching 80 percent mission-capable strike fighter goal...
27 March 2024 NPS’ Latest Small Satellite Launch Advances Comms Experimentation, International Collaboration MONTEREY, Calif. — In the dark, early morning sky of March 21 over NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on the Virginia coast, a Rocket Lab Electron rocket carried a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) manifest featuring three collaborative research missions into low-Earth orbit...
25 March 2024 NMRC Clinical Trials Center Gears up for Study to Advance Potential Influenza Prevention Therapy BETHESDA, Md. – Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC)’s Clinical Trials Center (CTC) is seeking volunteers to test a new therapy intended for use as a pre- and post-exposure prevention measure for influenza. ...
22 March 2024 NRL Scientists Deliver Quantum Algorithm to Develop New Materials and Chemistry U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists published the Cascaded Variational Quantum Eigensolver (CVQE) algorithm in a recent Physical Review Research article, expected to become a powerful tool to investigate the physical properties in electronic systems...
22 March 2024 Attention, Science Fans! Naval STEM Launches Newest Naval Horizons Essay Contest The Department of the Navy’s (DoN) Naval STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) program has gone live with the newest iteration of its popular Naval Horizons student essay contest for high school and college students.First launched in 2020, Naval Horizons is a STEM educational video...
20 March 2024 Navy Leaders Discuss the Importance of the Information Professional Community SAN DIEGO - U.S. Navy Information Professional (IP) officers gathered at the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific’s Information Professionals Symposium to collaborate, strengthen community relationships, and sustain overall readiness for the fight today, tomorrow and into the future, Feb...
20 March 2024 Poland Joins Combined Maritime Forces in Middle East as 42nd Member Combined Maritime Forces welcomed the Republic of Poland as the 42nd member of the world’s largest maritime security partnership, March 17...
19 March 2024 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Celebrates EPA Superfund Site Delisting KITTERY, ME - In an historic milestone, after nearly 30 years of extensive remediation, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deleted Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) from the National Priorities List (NPL), more commonly known as the Superfund Site list...
18 March 2024 CNO Travels to Arctic for Operation Ice Camp 2024 Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti traveled to the Arctic Ocean to attend Operation Ice Camp (ICE CAMP) 2024 and to visit with crewmembers of a U.S. Navy fast-attack submarine, March 17...