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Cool Mission: ONR Aids Deployment of Data Buoys across Arctic Ocean

In January 2025, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) partnered with the 144th Airlift Squadron of the Alaska Air National Guard, the U.S. Interagency Arctic Buoy Program (USIABP) and the International Cooperative Engagement Program for Polar Research (ICE-PPR) to deploy meteorological and oceanographic buoys across more than 5,000 nautical miles of the Arctic Ocean.
March 25, 2025

Advanced Technologies Visit Boston Aboard the Office of Naval Research's "Afloat Lab"

The Office of Naval Research supports development of technologies that give our Sailors and Marines increased battlespace awareness and tactical advantage, keep them out of harms way, and improve their performance and quality of life.
June 30, 2003

SMALL TALK – THE GABFEST OF MICROBIAL Communication

She thinks they're everywhere. What's more, she thinks they talk to each other.
January 01, 2003

ONR Outranks Peers in 2011 'Best Places to Work' Survey

The Office of Naval Research led the Navy's subcomponent agencies in the 2011 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings.
November 23, 2011

Blood Work: ONR-Sponsored Technology Simulates How Legs Bleed

ONR-sponsored researchers at the University of California Los Angeles have designed the first detailed computer simulation model of an injured human leg, complete with spurting blood.
February 01, 2016

Current Knowledge: New Research Ship is Ready for Duty

Amid booming fireworks and the joyful cheers from a large crowd of well-wishers, the brand-new research vessel (R/V) Neil Armstrong recently arrived at its new home at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
April 14, 2016

Beat the Heat: ONR, TechSolutions Deliver Improved Steam Suits to Sub Crews

To better protect Sailors from steam leaks on nuclear-powered submarines, ONR recently delivered new steam suits to crews of the USS Vermont and USS Indiana at Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut.
July 26, 2021

Measuring Up: ONR Tech Makes Sure Aviators and Aircraft are a Perfect Fit

ONR Global TechSolutions recently demonstrated the Anthropometric Measurement Device, which is designed to help select the right aircraft for differently sized aviators.
August 27, 2019

Lasers Bring New Urgency to Electric Power Research

In the wake of the recent announcement that laser weapons will be put on U.S. Navy ships, the need for reliable, high-voltage shipboard power has become a matter of national security, officials said at this week’s Electric Ship Technologies Symposium outside Washington, D.C.
April 25, 2013

ONR’s RoboBoat Competition Makes a Splash in Sarasota, Florida

A unique maritime competition, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), recently took place in Sarasota, Florida. The 16th annual RoboBoat competition brought together teams of students from across the globe to assemble and navigate autonomous unmanned surface vehicles (USV) through a series of real-world challenges, including coastal surveillance, port security and oceanographic exploration, at Sarasota’s Nathan Benderson Park.
April 06, 2023