20 December 2022 Strengthening Scientific Diplomacy: ONR Global Celebrates 20 Years in Santiago, Chile ARLINGTON, Va. - Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin Selby, as well as other leaders from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and ONR Global — the command’s international arm — recently traveled to Santiago, Chile, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ONR Global’s...
20 September 2022 Drug Detection: ONR SCOUT Tests Tech for Monitoring Illicit Maritime Cargo ARLINGTON, Va. - To improve capabilities for monitoring aircraft and vessels carrying illicit maritime cargo such as drugs — for longer periods of time and over greater distances — the Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored SCOUT initiative recently conducted a dynamic experimentation event at...
17 September 2022 Welcome Aboard, Capt. Plew! NavalX has a New Director ARLINGTON, Va. - On Tuesday, Sept. 13, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) held a change-of-office ceremony for NavalX, a partner organization within the command...
31 August 2022 Food for Thought: CNR Talks Naval Power at Navy League Breakfast ARLINGTON, Va. - Reflecting on the U.S. Navy in 2022 — specifically, the use of artificial intelligence in tandem with traditional platforms such as submarines and aircraft carriers — Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin Selby looked back to the year 1922, when the first U.S. aircraft carrier...
27 April 2022 NPS Research in Extreme Weather Prediction Prepares for Future Computing Capabilities MONTEREY, Calif. - The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has received a major grant to explore a groundbreaking new way to model hurricanes and other extreme weather events...
13 April 2022 Laser Trailblazer: Navy Conducts Historic Test of New Laser Weapon System ARLINGTON, Va.—The ground-based laser system homed in on the red drone flying by, shooting a high-energy beam invisible to the naked eye. Suddenly, a fiery orange glow flared on the drone, smoke poured from its engine and a parachute opened as the craft tumbled downward, disabled by the laser beam...
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...
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,...
23 December 2020 Marines Use Sensor Buoys to Better Understand Ocean Battlespace During the recent 2020 Trident Warrior exercise, Office of Naval Research-funded scientists dropped sensor buoys to study underwater conditions...