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Making Hydrogen Fuel Anywhere: ONR Tests Prototype to Power Marines in Expeditionary Environments

ONR Global TechSolutions program is sponsoring efforts to convert aluminum into hydrogen fuel, which could potentially serve as a portable, readily available power source.
February 15, 2022

Navy Announcing $10 Million in New Small Business Funding Opportunities

The Department of the Navy (DoN) is offering more than $10 million in funding opportunities to attract new small business partners and identify technology advances in the areas of autonomy, artificial intelligence, microelectronics, and command and control networks.
September 08, 2020

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

Naval Energy Storage System Safety and Assessment

Special Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: Naval Energy Storage System Safety and Assessment
November 23, 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