12 February 2024 NRL Announces New Associate Director of Research for Ocean and Atmospheric Science and Technology The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) announces the appointment of Christoph Englert, Ph.D., as the next Associate Director of Research for Ocean and Atmospheric Science and Technology...
26 January 2024 Sailors and Marines Driving Twenty Years of Innovation through TechSolutions TechSolutions has just celebrated its 1000th request for a technology-driven solution identified by the men and women who need it most – Sailors and Marines on the frontlines of the mission.“Necessity is the mother of invention, which is why it’s so important to deliver what our warfighters need...
05 January 2024 ONR-Sponsored Research Could Potentially Lead to Millions of New Materials Extraordinarily rugged with a melting temperature of several thousand degrees Fahrenheit. That describes the results of research into new ceramic materials sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and recently published in the Journal Nature.A research team, led by ONR’s Principal...
21 November 2023 Hydrogen Detected in Lunar Samples, Points to Resource Availability for Space Exploration WASHINGTON – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers have discovered solar-wind hydrogen in lunar samples, which indicates that water on the surface of the Moon may provide a vital resource for future lunar bases and longer-range space exploration. Space-based resource identification...
19 September 2023 First Phase of the MAGPIE Weather and Climate Experiment Completed in Barbados WASHINGTON — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) completed its contribution to the Moisture and Aerosol Gradients/Physics of Inversion Evolution (MAGPIE) program, the first phase of an 18-month mission in Barbados...
15 September 2023 Research Squadron VXS-1 Mobilizes Quickly to Track Hurricane Idalia NRL’s Scientific Development Squadron (VXS) 1 mobilized a crew for a NP-3C Orion operation with less than 24 hours’ notice to airdrop 18 SOFAR Spotter buoys in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Idalia on Monday, August 28...
08 October 2020 Navy Meteorology Orgs Demonstrate Cloud-Based Modeling to Predict Cyclones Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) and Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division (NRL MMD) recently demonstrated a developmental cloud-based system to improve forecasting of a tropical cyclone's path and intensity...