19 December 2024 The Department of the Navy Releases Inaugural Advanced Manufacturing Strategy WASHINGTON—Today, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development & Acquisition (ASN RD&A), Nickolas Guertin released the inaugural Department of the Navy (DoN) Advanced Manufacturing Strategy. The strategy focuses on three lines of effort and is aligned with the National...
24 May 2024 Vice Chief of Naval Operations Visits Penn State Applied Research Laboratory Vice Chief of Naval Operation Adm. Jim Kilby visited Penn State University’s Applied Research Laboratory, May 17...
05 April 2024 NRL Charters Navy’s Quantum Inertial Navigation Path To Reduce Drift U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers have developed a patent-pending Continuous 3D-Cooled Atom Beam Interferometer derived from a patented cold and continuous beam of atoms to explore atom-interferometry-based inertial measurement systems as a path to reduce drift in Naval navigation...
08 January 2024 NRL Leaders Receive Presidential Rank Awards for High-Impact Achievements WASHINGTON – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Director of Research Dr. Bruce G. Danly, Senior Executive Service (SES), and Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering Senior Scientist (ST) for Biosurveillance Dr. David A. Stenger receive Presidential Rank Awards...
28 November 2023 A Gamma-Ray Pulsar Milestone Inspires Innovative Astrophysics and Applications WASHINGTON – The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in conjunction with the international Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration, announce the discovery of nearly 300 gamma ray pulsars in the publication of their Third Catalog of Gamma Ray Pulsars. This milestone...
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...
25 September 2023 Readout of the DON STB Fall Meeting On Sept. 22, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro hosted Department of the Navy Science and Technology Board (DON STB) Chair former Secretary of the Navy Dr. Richard Danzig and members for their first meeting at the Pentagon...
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...
14 September 2023 SECNAV Establishes DON Science and Technology Board Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced today the establishment of the Department of the Navy’s Science and Technology Board (DON STB) federal advisory committee. ...
08 September 2023 Navy Deploys Automated Energy Assessment Tools to the Fleet WASHINGTON, D.C. – Engineers at the Naval Sea Systems Command have achieved an important milestone with the installation of the Global Energy Information System (GENISYS) suite onboard DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers...