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The Office of Naval Research's Power Generation and Energy Storage program is focused on developing Navy power generation and energy storage systems and components to improve overall naval platform capability, efficiency and reliability.

The Office of Naval Research's Thermal Science and Engineering program advances thermal science through fundamental studies of multi-phase heat transfer, fluid dynamics and nanostructured materials.

The Department of Navy's HBCU/MI Faculty Start-up Program in Materials enhances infrastructure for HBCUs/MIs by providing start-up funding for new, untenured faculty members whose teaching and research impact DoD needs in materials science/engineering.

See a list of the 2024 recipients of the U.S. Department of the Navy's Young Investigator Program.

The Department of Defense (DoD announces the Fiscal Year 2025 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of accredited United States (U.S.) institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment or instrumentation.

Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Don Walsh, best known for his daring dive to the deepest spot on Earth, nearly 36,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, has died at age 92. Walsh was a co-pilot of the Trieste bathyscaphe, a deep submergence vehicle acquired by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in 1958. Two years later, on January 23, 1960, Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard, son of the inventor of the bathyscaphe, became the first humans to descend into the Challenger Deep, located in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench. “ONR sponsored the Trieste, but it was then-Lt. Don Walsh who made the very daring decision to make the first descent into the deepest spot of the earth’s ocean. Walsh was a Navy officer, a submariner, an adventurer, and an oceanographer. To his family, we extend our deepest condolences and gratitude for allowing him to explore, and share his extraordinary experiences and knowledge with us,” said Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Kurt Rothenhaus.

For excellence in research areas such as rocket engines and autonomous vehicles, the Department of the Navy’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions Program recently presented $15,000 scholarship awards to five students competing in the 2024 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, California.

ONR Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) N0001424SF006 Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Department of the Navy (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program

The DoN HBCU/MI Program recently hosted its Distinguished Fellows Symposium at the Office of Naval Research. The DoN HBCU/MI Distinguished Fellows Program provides HBCU/MI professors with faculty release time for three years, enabling them to focus exclusively on naval-relevant research.

ONR Announcement N0001424SF007 Class of 2025 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) Program