31 July 2024 NRL Scientists Identify New Class of Semiconductor Nanocrystals WASHINGTON – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists confirm the identification of a new class of semiconductor nanocrystals with bright ground-state excitons, a significant advancement in the field of optoelectronics, in an article recently published in...
26 June 2024 NRL CCOR Launches on the GOES-U NOAA Satellite To Monitor Space Weather The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Compact Coronagraph (CCOR) was launched June 25, on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) from NASA – Kennedy Space Center to detect and characterize coronal mass...
31 May 2024 NRL Researchers Release “Putting AI in the Critical Loop” Book WASHINGTON – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Information Technology Division researchers co-author Putting AI in the Critical Loop: Assured Trust and Autonomy in Human-Machine Teams book published by Elsevier in February 2024 with an emphasis on technology,...
10 May 2024 NRL Selected to Lead Critical Science Mission on Wildfires and Smoke NLR meteorologist, David A. Peterson, Ph.D., has been selected by NASA to lead the PYRocumulonimbus (pyroCb) EXperiment (PYREX) -- a large airborne-based field campaign aimed at studying the role that pyroCb activity plays in the warming climate system and understanding its physical links to extreme...
09 May 2024 NRL Selected to Lead Critical Science Mission on Wildfires and Smoke WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory meteorologist, David A. Peterson, Ph.D., has been selected by NASA to lead the PYRocumulonimbus (pyroCb) EXperiment (PYREX) -- a large airborne-based field campaign aimed at studying the role that pyroCb activity plays in the warming climate system and...
30 April 2024 LiDAR-Equipped Unmanned Aircraft System Supports NPS Research MONTEREY, Calif. — An unmanned aircraft system (UAS) equipped with an infrared LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, sensor is enabling students at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to conduct important research into the depth of water in coastal areas...
02 April 2024 Navy and Air Force Fighters to Train as a Joint Force in NAWCAD’s Joint Simulation Environment Patuxent River, Md. – Navy and Air Force fighter pilots will begin training as a joint force at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD)’s Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) starting in 2024...
29 March 2024 NIWC Atlantic Conducts Largest-Ever, All-Domain, Naval Integration Event CHARLESTON, S.C. — In its push to advance joint all-domain warfighting concepts across the command, Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic wrapped up its largest-ever annual System of Systems Naval Integration Experiment (SoSNIE) event on March 22...
28 March 2024 NRL’s Sungrazer Project Discovers 5000th Comet WASHINGTON — On March 25, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Sungrazer Project reached a remarkable milestone – the discovery of its 5,000th comet in data from the joint European Space Agency – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (ESA-NASA) Solar and...
27 March 2024 NPS’ Latest Small Satellite Launch Advances Comms Experimentation, International Collaboration MONTEREY, Calif. — In the dark, early morning sky of March 21 over NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on the Virginia coast, a Rocket Lab Electron rocket carried a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) manifest featuring three collaborative research missions into low-Earth orbit...