29 August 2023 Revolutionizing the DOD Systems Infrared Countermeasures Landscape: Mr. Kenneth A. Sarkady Receives Roger L. Easton Award for Engineering Excellence Mr. Kenneth A. Sarkady, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) head of the Counter Measure Systems Section received the Roger L. Easton Award for Engineering Excellence for outstanding engineering insight and visionary leadership in the development of a nationally recognized capability in missile
28 June 2023 NRL Scientists Use Pulsar Timing to Measure Gravitational Waves from the Distant Universe WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Space Science Division along with a team of international scientists discovered groundbreaking evidence for gravitational waves that stretch and squeeze spacetime. The gravitational wave signal was observed in pulsar observations taken
17 February 2023 NRL Researcher Receives MGB-SIAM Early Career Fellowship WASHINGTON - NRL researcher Dr. Steven Rodriguez was awarded an early career fellowship sponsored by the Mathematically Gifted and Black (MGB) community and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Rodriguez is leading efforts at NRL to develop machine learning technology to
07 September 2022 NRL researcher receives ASME Lifetime Achievement Award John Michopoulos, Ph.D., U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Computational Multiphysics Systems Laboratory head, received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Lifetime Achievement Award.
02 September 2022 NASA’s JWST Takes Its First-Ever Direct Image of Distant World Jordan Stone, Ph.D., an astrophysicist in NRL’s Remote Sensing Division is part of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s early release science team for direct observations of exoplanets that released the observations of a super-Jupiter exoplanet, HIP 65426 b, using JWST near-infrared camera and
26 August 2022 NRL fungal experiment launches as Artemis I payload WASHINGTON - An experiment prepared by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will launch as part of NASA’s scheduled Artemis I mission to orbit the moon. The experiment will use samples of fungi to investigate effects of the deep space radiation environment outside of Earth’s protective
01 August 2022 NRL Launches Quantum Navy YouTube Series WASHINGTON - The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), with the help of Defense Media Activity, is launching a three-part series highlighting the importance of quantum research for the 21st century U.S. Navy.
13 July 2022 NRL, Aerospace Industry Hosts 18th Annual CanSat Student Challenge WASHINGTON - After countless hours of preparation, flight testing, and launching, 23 student teams from universities and colleges around the world participated in the CanSat Aerospace Competition at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, June
13 July 2022 SIRI-2 to Qualify Technologies for Radiation Detection in Space WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists launched the second Strontium Iodide Radiation Instrument (SIRI-2) instrument in December 2021 onboard Space Test Program (STP) Sat-6. SIRI-2, a gamma-ray spectrometer, will demonstrate the performance of europium-doped strontium iodide gamma
01 July 2022 NRL Celebrates 99 Years of Innovation; Looks Ahead to Second Century of Discovery The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Centennial celebration culminates with the 100th anniversary of its founding on July 2, 2023.