21 August 2023 ‘SCOUT-ing’ for Solutions: Naval Exercise Seeks to Improve Maritime Drug Interdiction ARLINGTON, Va. – Gathered in a temporary maritime operations center in Arlington, Virginia, military, industry and political leaders watched multiple satellite images flash onto large monitor screens. These images showed three types of drug-running vessels hundreds of miles away in the...
29 March 2023 Wanted: Industry Partners to ‘SCOUT’ for Solutions to U.S. Pacific Fleet Challenges ARLINGTON, Va. - From its inception, the Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored SCOUT campaign has reached across government and private industry to rapidly source and incubate innovative solutions to warfighter problems — and deliver those solutions to the fleet to address the...
28 October 2022 Tech FLEX: ONR SCOUT Experimentation Event Showcases Value of Unmanned Vehicles ARLINGTON, Va.—The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) lifted off the deck of the USNS Burlington, an expeditionary fast-transport ship, and flew in a graceful arc away from the vessel and over the Atlantic Ocean. Working in tandem with a piloted Cessna airplane a short distance away, both drone and...
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...