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Taking Up Space

Students don't ordinarily build satellites. And satellites aren't usually launched in Alaska. But Starshine-3 and PC-Sat are not your ordinary satellites. On August 31st, Starshine-3, built with the help of hundreds of grade school students from around the world, and PC-Sat, designed and built from...
July 01, 2001

Taller Than a Dragon's Eye

Imagine the Marine on a reconnaissance mission who must know now just what's over the hill in front of him. Imagine a 4 pound glider that fits in a backpack, has the radar signature of a bird, comes packed with a video eye, can be assembled and launched in less than 5 minutes, and comes complete...
April 01, 2001

The Big Thaw

There is momentous news inside the Arctic Circle. It's getting warmer!; and in the world of polar science (where everyone knows that ice affects the Earth's temperature) the experts are getting restless. As more and more ice melts, there is less of it around to reflect the Sun's rays back into space...
April 01, 2001

Thermo-Chemistry on a Chip

Dreaming of the potential of thermocouple devices? Well, perhaps not… but maybe you should. The October 11th issue of the respected British science journal Nature says there has been a major breakthrough recently in the world of thermoelectric materials.
November 01, 2001

Thinking Outside the Box

"I want you to think out of the box," said the Chief of Naval Research, Rear Admiral Jay Cohen to Paul Lowell when he tasked him to find some different - perhaps high-risk - answers to some of the Navy's most challenging problems. "And you may fail most of the time…. that's no problem. The bigger...
January 01, 2001

Two Naval Researchers Awarded Top Technology Awards

Arlington, VA -- Dr. Vernon Simmons, former Senior Scientist, Naval Surface Warfare enter, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) in West Bethesda, Md. and Dr. Yuan-Ning Liu, Chief Research Scientist, NSWCCD, were awarded the Dr. Arthur E. Bisson Prize for Naval Technology Achievement for their leading-edge...
August 23, 2001

Student Teams Vie for $20,000 in Underwater Vehicle Competition

What: Fourth Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition When: Thursday, July 12 to Sunday, July 15, 2001 Where: U.S. Naval Academy, Hubbard Hall, Annapolis, MD. See 12 teams of college and high school student engineers pit their unmanned submersible vehicles for $20,000 in prizes...
July 05, 2001

Who Ya Gonna Call?

When landline communications links are on the fritz and the job is too massive for local cellular communications, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C., stands ready to answer the call. NRL has outfitted Humvees with the capability of immediately providing two-way satellite...
October 01, 2001

Advancing Flight Deck Training: CNO Views Demo of ONR Global TechSolutions System at NAWCTSD

While touring the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) in Orlando, Florida, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday learned how a game-based training technology—sponsored by Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global TechSolutions—can help aircraft carrier flight deck crews keep their skills sharp.
January 01, 2021

How Science is Finding Ways to Navigate in GPS-Denied Environments

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global selected and co-funded with the U.S. Army Development Command the winning proposal of its second annual Global-X Challenge.
November 23, 2021