08 July 2021 Navy Workshop Helps HBCU/MI Faculty, Students Excel at ‘Contact Sport’ of S&T To build new research partnerships and strengthen existing ones, the Department of the Navy’s (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program—located at the Office of Naval Research (ONR)—recently hosted its Naval Opportunity Awareness Workshop (OAW)...
08 July 2021 ONR Global Welcomes New Leadership, Celebrates 80th Anniversary during Change of Command LONDON, U.K.—The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global welcomed new leadership during a change of command ceremony at the Admiralty House Garden in Portsmouth, United Kingdom, while also commemorating its 80th anniversary. Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin C. Selby officiated the ceremony,...
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...
17 June 2021 Navy Seeks to Unleash the Potential of Unmanned Systems The Department of the Navy (DoN) is producing an after-action review of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem 21 (IBP21), an exercise held April 19-26 in San Diego, California...
11 June 2021 Broadening High School Horizons: Naval STEM Expands Virtual Student Outreach ARLINGTON, Va. - Meet some of the Department of the Navy’s (DoN) science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) interns and scholar alumni. Learn about engineering design for parachutes; bio-inspired research, including the science of seal tracking; and deep-submergence rescue vehicles,...
13 May 2021 Fusing the Gap: ONR Global Team Develops Tech with Sailors and Marines ARLINGTON, Va. - Delivering cutting-edge technology to Sailors and Marines at a rapid pace is at the top of the to-do list for ONR and the Naval Research Enterprise. ONRG E&A address problem spaces and capability gaps for future conflicts by combining the power and potential of technology with the...
06 May 2021 Best and Brightest: ONR’s 2021 Young Investigators ARLINGTON, Va. - Today, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) recognized awardees of the 2021 Young Investigator Program (YIP)...
26 April 2021 Office of Naval Research Global Launches Second Round of ‘Global-X’ Challenge Focused on Polar Science The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global, in its sustained mission to become the partner of choice for the worldwide international Science and Technology (S&T) community, will launch the second round of Global-X, a nine-month international science challenge worth up to $500,000, to encourage...
22 April 2021 Unmanned Capabilities Front and Center During Naval Exercise Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin Selby today declared “the state of our Naval unmanned capabilities is truly unmatched,” and vowed continued support for the nation’s ongoing transition to a hybrid manned-unmanned force in the future...
09 April 2021 Office of Naval Research Tests Virtual Training Systems for JTACs, Fire Support Marines ARLINGTON, Va. - The Office of Naval Research demonstrated two different systems designed to make it easier for Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) and Fire Support Marines to train...