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ONR’s directorates balance a robust science and technology (S&T) portfolio, allocating funds to meet the warfighter's requirements.
Chief of Naval Research Spotlight
Rear Adm. Nevin P. Carr, Chief of Naval Research, tours the R/V Knorr during the Persistent Littoral Undersea Surveillance (PLUS) sea trial held on a portion of the U.S. Navy Hawaii Range Complex off the southwest coast of Kauai. The PLUS program provides effective, adaptive and persistent undersea surveillance of multiple quiet targets over large littoral areas. It is one of six innovative naval prototypes currently in development.
The PLUS concept is a semi-autonomous controlled network of fixed bottom and mobile sensors that communicate with each other as they try to track ships and even the quiet, diesel electric submarines operating in shallow water environments typical of the Western Pacific.
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ONR Hits the Road
62nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics
Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, Minn.
November 22 - 24, 2009
48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
Orlando World Center Marriott, Orlanda, Fla.
January 4-7, 2010
Scans Reveal the Whale's Inner Ear
Using the same type of industrial-sized X-ray scanners that NASA uses to detect flaws in the space shuttle’s solid fuel rockets, scientists can now see inside the giant head of a whale. The scans are providing detailed 3-D replicas of a whale’s hearing anatomy using a breakthrough method developed by a marine biology team sponsored by ONR and the Chief of Naval Operations Readiness Division (N45). MORE
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