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Ready for the Fight: Accelerating Cloud-Based Warfare Systems

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.
September 16, 2019

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

Laser Weapons and Combat System Integration

The Laser Weapons and Combat System Integration Program is part of the Office of Naval Research's Naval Air Warcraft and Weapons Department.
March 18, 2022

High Energy Lasers

The High Energy Lasers Program is part of the Office of Naval Research's Naval Air Warfare and Weapons Department.
March 18, 2022

Code 35 Expeditionary Warfare

Code 35 Expeditionary Warfare is part of the Office of Naval Research's Naval Air Warfare and Weapons Department.
March 18, 2022

A Mighty Wind: Using Wind Tunnels to Measure Sound by Deadening the Noise

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) sponsored a project at Virginia Tech University nearly 20 years ago that is now growing in influence across the world for measuring aerospace and aeronautical acoustics. Since noise reverberates against solid surfaces, such as the walls of a wind tunnel where acoustical testing takes place, collecting accurate sound data had been nearly impossible at the time. Researchers were also struggling to discern the sound of the wind tunnel’s air flow from the noise of the object traveling through it. After learning about some experiments on Kevlar as a wind screen, William Devenport, an engineering professor and director of Virginia Tech’s Stability Wind Tunnel, said he and a colleague wrote a proposal to then-ONR program officer Ron Joslin to try adding Kevlar to their wind tunnel walls. Devenport submitted the original grant proposal (N00014–04–1–04933) through the FY 2004 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) for alterations to Virginia Tech’s existing Stability Wind Tunnel that would allow it to measure flow-induced noise of relevance to Navy applications.

August 14, 2023

Expeditionary Cyber

The Office of Naval Research's Expeditionary Cyber program has the goal of providing the Marines, SOCOM and Expeditionary Navy customers with state-of-the-art solutions to both defend assets and defeat adversaries within the cyberspace domain.
March 18, 2022

Directed Energy Weapons: Counter Directed Energy Weapons and High Energy Lasers

The Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) Program is part of the Office of Naval Research's Naval Air Warfare and Weapons Department.
March 18, 2022

Directed Energy Weapons: High Power Microwaves

The Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) Program is part of the Office of Naval Research's Naval Air Warcraft and Weapons Department.
March 18, 2022

Directed Energy Weapons: Ultra-Short Pulse Laser and Atmospheric Characterization

The Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) Program is part of the Office of Naval Research's Naval Air Warfare and Weapons Department.
March 18, 2022