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During a visit to San Diego for the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem 21, Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin Selby said America’s growing focus on autonomous capabilities is showing impressive results.

As conflicts become compressed in time and more complex, with an increasing number of data sources and platforms feeding information to warfighters, it is a challenge to build and share a complete and accurate operational picture.

ONR SCOUT is an ongoing, multiagency experimentation campaign to identify new ways to bring unmanned technologies to warfighter problems, test them in realistic operating conditions and get them to the fleet and force. SCOUT is committed to partnering with industry to get nontraditional, commercial-off-the-shelf, government-developed and/or government-sponsored technologies to the fleet rapidly.

Special Program Announcement for 2023 Office of Naval Research Code 35 Air Warfare & Weapons Focus Area Forum Research for the Naval Domain

The Office of Naval Research's Directed Energy Capability Enablers (DE-CE) initiative is designed to fundamentally transform naval operations in contested environments by seamlessly integrating emerging radio-frequency and optical spectrum technologies with conventional, non-directed energy (non-DE) systems across all operational domains, including undersea, surface, land, and air.

The Laser Weapons and Combat System Integration Program is part of the Office of Naval Research's Naval Air Warcraft and Weapons Department.

The Office of Naval Research's high energy lasers and pulsed lasers research concentration area is focused on the development of next-generation laser weapon systems deployable on a variety of naval platforms, that can automatically adjust their power, beam characteristics and engagement strategies based on the specific threat environment and operational objectives.

The Office of Naval Research's Lethality and Operation Analysis research concentration area is focused on creating and validating a multi-layered modeling and simulation (M&S) framework that analyzes Directed Energy (DE) weapon lethality and operational effectiveness.

The Office of Naval Research's High Power Microwaves (HPM) research concentration area present focus areas are twofold. First is to explore technologies, including effects mechanisms, to enable engagement of targets at higher frequencies (X through K bands) and, thus, greater directivity. Second is the reduction of required power on target through the exploration of novel HPM systems that provide rapid on-demand shot-to-shot waveform parameter adjustability.