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7 Nations Deepen Science and Technology Cooperation To Preserve Safe, Stable and Secure Polar Regions

The International Cooperative Engagement Program for Polar Research Memorandum of Understanding (ICE-PPR MOU) entered into effect on November 27, 2020.
January 01, 2020

Global-X Challenge awards over $1 million

The international science challenge launched by the Office of Naval Research Global selects four teams with revolutionary concepts.
January 01, 2020

Shining Bright: Diamonds Enable Greater Performance and Beam Quality in High-Power Lasers

The power and performance of lasers are continually increasing to meet the expanding requirements of diverse future technologies.
January 01, 2020

Australia at the forefront of human‐machine interaction research

Researchers from the University of New South Wales in Sydney are finding ways to increase the capability of human‐machine cooperation, by exploring a novel line of research based in future intent prediction.
January 01, 2020

Understanding the Influence of Coherent Flow Vortices on Surface Ship Maneuvering

Professor Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud of the Hamburg University of Technology in Germany provides details of this ONR Global funded project, which aims to understand the influence of coherent flow vortices on ship maneuvering.
January 01, 2020

Crucial Collaboration: Expanding Naval Capability through Ties with Industry, Academia

The DoN Technology Transfer Program Office, located at the Office of Naval Research, recently hosted an event geared toward strengthening partnerships among government, industry and academia.
December 11, 2019

Theoretical to Tactical: Veterans Turn Research into Naval Innovation

NEPTUNE 2.0 will launch in early 2020—providing new research grants to universities to align naval and national defense strategy requirements with campus laboratory capabilities. NEPTUNE sponsors university research, which enables military students (veterans and active duty) to connect education...
November 18, 2019

ONR Global Opens New Location in Melbourne, Australia

Scientific collaboration was front and center as Capt. James Borghardt, commanding officer of the Office of Naval Research Global, officially inaugurated a new location in Melbourne, Australia, on Nov. 6.
November 06, 2019

The Navy and Navajo Nation: Foundations for a Research Relationship

The Department of the Navy’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions program recently held its first outreach event at a Native American university or college—Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint, New Mexico.
October 24, 2019

Hurricane Hero: EMILY Vehicle a Successful Partnership between Navy, Industry

In September 2019, EMILY—officially known as the Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard—operated in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian. An unmanned surface vehicle, EMILY helped disaster responders deliver medicine and other needed supplies.
October 03, 2019