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Navy Strengthens Defense Industrial Base with New Small Business Funding Opportunity

The Department of the Navy's agile Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs announced today $30 million in rapid-funding opportunities through a new Broad Agency Announcement, which is a request for scientific or research proposals, through May 28.
April 27, 2020

Recruiting Robots: DoD Summit Promotes Robotics in Maintenance and Repair

ONR recently participated in the 2020 JROBOT Summit, which discussed bringing more robotics systems into sustainment.
March 13, 2020

Laser Focus: ONR Global and the Competition for High-Intensity Lasers

ONR Global recently sponsored the travel of a Nobel Laureate to a conference about the development of high-intensity lasers in the U.S. and Europe.
June 03, 2019

Down Under Demo: ONR Touts Additive Manufacturing Tech at Australian Event

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) — and its international arm, ONR Global — participated in the recent Autonomous Warrior 2023 (AW23) exercise, located at HMAS Creswell in Jervis Bay, Australia.
February 23, 2024

Electric Boat Competition Sparks Interest in Naval Science Careers

Student engineering teams from Princeton, Washington College and the University of Alabama have won first place in their respective events at the “Promoting Electric Propulsion” (PEP) boat races, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE). In just six years, this electric boat-building competition has grown from a single university to 34, with more than 200 students who took part in the five-mile races on Broad Bay in Virginia Beach. Dr. Steve Russell, program officer, Sea Warfare and Weapons department, said he launched the PEP competition with a colleague from ASNE, Dr. Leigh McCue, and Tim Cullis, Naval Sea Warfare Center Carderock, after seeing a public race by local hobbyists in the Chesapeake Bay.
April 22, 2024