18 June 2021 ONR Awards Two NPS Faculty with Youth Investigator Program Honors MONTEREY, Calif. - Two Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) professors recently earned the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, a highly competitive early-career award program for academic scientists and engineers that recognizes creative research with potential for a...
14 June 2021 Aquatic Laboratory Adds Maritime Domain to JIFX Field Experiments MONTEREY, Calif. - The Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) program at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), held quarterly, recently added another warfighting domain to its range of venues used to conduct field experiments – water...
20 May 2021 NPS Students Use Big Ideas Exchange to Advance Readiness and Mobility MONTEREY, Calif. - The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) hosted its annual Big Ideas Exchange (BIX), May 14, with six students – U.S. Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force officers – presenting innovative research involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous systems and more that aimed...
04 February 2021 NPS-Led Research Reveals Greater Abundance of Life Under Arctic Ice Than Previously Thought For the longest time, scientists have written off there being much life below the Arctic sea ice. Surely not enough sunlight would be able to get through the snow and ice to sustain an abundance of life. Additionally, satellites can’t see through the ice, and it was difficult for scientists...
14 January 2021 Elevated Equipment: DoD Awards $50 Million for Defense-Related Scientific Research The Department of Defense (DoD) recently awarded $50 million in grants to 150 university scientists—54 of whom are sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR)—via the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)...
12 November 2020 Navy/Marine Corps COVID-19 Study Findings Published in New England Journal of Medicine Implementing public health best practices on their own among young adults may not be enough to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and additional actions, such as widespread and repeated testing, are recommended to reduce risk of viral spread, according to research published today in the New England...
22 September 2020 NRL-built Argon Fluoride Laser Marks Breakthrough, Sets New Energy Record The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory research team set a new energy record on March 5 using an argon fluoride laser. This energy is twice the previous record...