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AUV Fest 2007 will run from June 4–15 at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Panama City, Florida. This event, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and NSWC, aims to introduce fleet sailors to autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs. ONR has sponsored AUV Fests about once every 18 months since 1997, and this will be the first time it will be hosted in Panama City.

The Office of Naval Research will be showcasing a variety of revolutionary technologies destined for today’s and tomorrow’s Sailors and Marines at this year’s Fleet Week in New York, from May 21-26.

Chief of Naval Research RADM Mat Winter to unveil updated S&T plan at upcoming event.

Seeking out new technology or exciting ideas at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global is something of a treasure hunt. Dr. Scott Walper, science director, ONR Global, says the search for innovative projects can take him and his team of program officers all over the world, relying on a bit of luck — or serendipity — to strike gold. But recently, Walper said he and his predecessor for Synthetic Biology at ONR Global, Dr. Patrick Rose, who is now with SPRIND (Germany’s Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation) had an idea to try something a little different. Walper said, “The thought was we would put out a call for a ‘Serendipity Collective,’ where we would sponsor a workshop and ask people to tell us their craziest ideas”. To attract innovators, the team worked with the company IdeatePlus. Walper said Kevin D'Silva, IdeatePlus CEO, and his team were instrumental in helping develop and manage the event, setting up a web-based platform to crowdsource and push out a social media campaign. The website generated 73 concepts from more than 225 active participants. The information was collected and shared it with a team of experts, including an artist, engineer, scientist and someone from the humanities. The experts scored proposals based on originality and feasibility. Eight teams were then invited to the “Serendipity Collective” held in Berlin in May. From those core concepts, another panel of experts composed of representatives from ONR Global, DEVCOM, the VW (Volkswagen) Foundation and SPRIND picked the ones they wanted to sponsor with an award of $50,000 to kick-start their efforts.

The Navy will christen X-Craft as Sea Fighter (FSF 1), Saturday, February 5, 2005, during a 12 noon PST ceremony at the Nichols Bros. Boat Builders yard in Freeland (Whidbey Island), Washington.

From August 4 through August 7, teams of international students from 21 high schools, colleges and universities will pit their unmanned underwater vehicles against each other for $20,000 in scholarship money.

A major exercise and demonstration of unmanned autonomous undersea vehicles (AUVs) will take place in Narragansett Bay from May 12-23, 2008 during AUVfest 2008

ONR will stream the 2012 Naval Science and Technology Partnership Conference live Oct. 22-24, 2012.

WHAT: Meet the researchers behind RoboLobster, Miniature Chemical Detector & more! Aboard the U.S. Navy's Afloat Lab WHEN: Special Media Availability Thursday, July 25 & Friday, July 26, 9:30 a.m. to noon Open to the public Thursday, July 25 to Sunday, July 28 Public Hours: Thursday, July 25 - 12:30...

Three researchers sponsored by the Office of Naval Research are being recognized as outstanding innovators by the MIT Technology Review, which is published to show how the world is being dramatically shaped by new technology.