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The Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department explores science and technology in the ocean battlespace environment.

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.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has sponsored the development of an integrated tool to make fluid and fuel analysis faster, easier and mobile. It’s called the Portable Fluid Analyzer Plus (PFA+).

At the Technical Concept Experiment 23.2, held at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, ONR showcased multiple systems designed to enhance the Marine Corps’ capability in carrying out amphibious operations — including explosive hazard defeat/mine countermeasures as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.

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.

The Office of Naval Research's Counter Directed Energy Weapons (CDEW) program was initiated in response to the rapid development of high energy lasers (HEL) and high power microwaves (HPM)/high power radio frequency (HPRF) threats being developed by potential foreign adversaries.