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Making science and technology a major priority, the White House is looking for ways the naval research community can partner on efforts, such as advanced training for sailors, a top administration official said Nov. 9 at the 2010 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Partnership Conference.

A new software technology developed by ONR, called C2RPC, may aid a multi-agency task force in the war on drugs.

The the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Expeditionary Canine Sciences program is taking a fresh look at how dogs are trained to identify different explosive devices.

On January 9, 2008, at a ceremony at the Office of Naval Research, Chief of Naval Research Rear Admiral William Landay III presented the first-ever Award for Outstanding Dedicated Leadership in Executing Future Naval Capabilities to Dr. Peter Craig.

A team of researchers led by Dr. Rajesh Rao, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, recently published a paper showing how robots can learn much like children—amassing data by watching adults do something, determining the goal of the action and then deciding how to perform it on their own. Rao’s work is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

TechSolutions, part of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global, takes a problem identified by a Sailor or Marine and tries to come up with solutions through a rapid-response technology development program. Jason Payne, director of TechSolutions, said his office is eager to hear about anything needed that may be solved through technology. A good idea does not necessarily need to come from an engineer or scientist. Sailors and Marines who wish to make a submission may register for an account with their CAC-enabled computer at the link provided on the TechSolutions webpage: https://www.onr.navy.mil/techsolutions/. Accounts are validated within a few minutes and ready for input.

For the past three years, the Daytona Beach Homeschoolers have competed against the finest technical universities in the world—and they've been winning.

The Office of Naval Research held two science and technology (S&T) discussion panels during the recent 2024 Naval Science and Technology (S&T)/Combat Systems/Technology, Systems and Ships Symposium in Arlington, Virginia.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has ended fiscal year 2023 with the highest rating from the Professional Services Council (PSC) for its outreach, transparency and thoroughness in acquisition forecasts. The Department of the Navy’s ranking on the PSC scorecard is a big change from previous years according to Ellen Simonoff, director, Office of Small Business Programs. She said last year the DoN pushed an initiative to get a higher ranking and succeeded, in part, by getting all of the Navy commands to have their long-range acquisition estimates correspond to each other in terms of how and what information was published.

For his “multi-decade visionary leadership role in setting and shepherding the research agenda in AI and computational neuroscience at the Office of Naval Research [ONR],” Dr. Tom McKenna recently was named a 2023 Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).