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Strategic Competition Program

The Strategic Competition Program invests in basic and applied research to further our understanding of strategic competition, develop capabilities to counter grey zone actions, and identify opportunities to enhance cooperation with allies and partners, particularly in terms of access, basing, and overflight.
March 18, 2022

Fuel Flexibility for Contingency Operations

The Office of Naval Research's Fuel Flexibility for Contingency Operations program comprises basic and applied research to support naval needs for operational energy resilience and sustained operations when conventional fuels are not abundantly available. This program seeks technological breakthroughs to enable the generation of synthetic fuels from abundant and logistically compatible resources.
March 18, 2022

Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education Information Sciences (MPTE-IS)

The Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education Information Sciences portfolio funds basic research, applied research and advanced technology development in metrics development, data ontology, data mining and machine learning to optimize performance, manpower modelling, personnel screening, training and education opportunities for the warfighter within the Naval enterprise.
March 18, 2022

Physical Oceanography

The Office of Naval Research's Physical Oceanography program is interested in receiving research planning letters on topics related to our primary focus areas of mesoscale and sub-mesoscale ocean processes, air-sea interaction, new ocean observing technologies and the education of the next generation of scientists.
March 18, 2022

Marine Meteorology and Space Weather

The Office of Naval Research's Marine Meteorology and Space program sponsors innovative basic and applied research in the broad thrust areas of atmospheric prediction and processes, atmospheric effects, air-sea interaction, atmospheric boundary layer processes, satellite remote sensing, and ionospheric analysis and prediction.
March 18, 2022

Semper Science: ONR Showcases S&T Efforts at Modern Day Marine

The Office of Naval Research participated in Modern Day Marine, held April 30-May 2 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Modern Day Marine is the largest military equipment, systems, services and technology exposition exclusively targeted to the Marine Corps.
May 07, 2024

Business of Innovation: CNR to Talk Transformative Tech at Sea-Air-Space

Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Kurt Rothenhaus will moderate a panel of industry leaders at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition, April 8-10, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
April 02, 2024

Competitive Edge: Students Win CNR Scholarship Awards at Global Science Fair

For excellence in research areas such as robotics and machine learning, the Department of the Navy’s (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program recently presented $15,000 scholarship awards to five students competing in the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Dallas, Texas. Anthony C. Smith Sr., director of the DoN HBCU/MI Program, which is located at ONR, presented the CNR Scholarship Awards, which honors students in grades nine through 12 for producing and presenting quality science and engineering projects. The honors were distributed at ISEF — one of the world’s largest science and engineering competitions for high schoolers — as part of the Naval Science Awards Program (NSAP), a Navy and Marine Corps program encouraging American students to develop and retain an interest in science and engineering. NSAP celebrates the accomplishments of eligible students at regional and state science and engineering fairs, as well as large ones such as ISEF.
August 22, 2023

Marine Biology

The Office of Naval Research Marine Biology program provides a warfighting advantage by enhancing understanding of marine species distribution and abundance for tactical and operational ocean battlespace dominance.
March 18, 2022

Power Moves: ONR to Host Innovation Industry Day Event on May 14

To build new partnerships and develop accelerated warfighter capabilities, the Office of Naval Research will host an Innovation Industry Day (I2D) on Thursday, May 14, at its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.
April 07, 2026