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The six ships, one submarine, and more than 5,500 Sailors and Marines of Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG)-1 are getting the chance to test and evaluate a new low cost, low power, optical communications system.

Before the sun had even risen over Wallops Island, Va., on 10 December 2005, a joint Office of Naval Research/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency vehicle achieved a world first. At an altitude of 63,000 feet, the Freeflight Atmospheric Scramjet Test Technique (FASTT) vehicle became the first...

Arlington, Va.—Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Jay M. Cohen will present the Vice Admiral Harold G. Bowen Award for Patented Inventions to four Navy researchers in a ceremony at the Office of Naval Research on Thursday, December 15, 2005.

Basic research program aims to increase counter-IED predictive capabilities

Arlington, Va.—The Office of Naval Research is teaming up with the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory and the Naval Research Laboratory to display some of the latest technologies being developed, tested, and fielded for the U.S. Marine Corps.

NOAA, with support from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), will return this week to the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” to continue the hunt for the Alligator, the U.S. Navy’s first submarine.

Nanorobot fabrication makes ultrasmall sensors possible

Despite all of the elbow room the open ocean offers miniscule life forms such as phytoplankton, bacteria, and viruses, these creatures sometimes converge into patches called “thin layers.”

Arlington, Va.—The Office of Naval Research announces the christening of the Advanced Electric Ship Demonstrator (AESD) on August 24, 2005.

high-volume water purification system developed by the Office of Naval Research has proven itself in a real-world emergency situation, providing a remote U.S. Coast Guard station with enough potable water to last through an Alaska winter.