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How Latin America is changing the world through science and innovation

There is groundbreaking science happening in every corner of the world. Latin America is no exception.
January 01, 2020

ONR Announces Young Investigator Program Awards

The Office of Naval Research today announced the award of 26 grants totaling $8.4 million as a result of the Fiscal Year 2002 ONR Young Investigator Program competition. A total of 260 proposals were submitted in response to this year's program announcement. The Young Investigator Program supports...
February 05, 2003

Detecting Breast Cancer with a New Algorithm

What does remote sensing for camouflaged enemy ground vehicles have to do with breast cancer diagnosis? By next year, perhaps plenty. A smart sensor fusion algorithm modeled on the human visual/brain "unsupervised" learning system and a 200 channel hyperspectral remote sensing capability have been...
September 04, 2002

Roger Scramjet

In a wind tunnel in Hampton, Virginia , on the 30th of May this year, a new kind of cruise missile engine, called a scramjet, was fired up. Just like any other cruise missile engine, it used conventional liquid hydrocarbon fuel, but this one was a mite different. In simulated hypersonic conditions...
January 01, 2002

Putting the Smarts at the Sharp End of the Spear

The United States Navy and Marine Corps are an expeditionary team. Thus they operate in the littorals-in the sea and on the land along the coastline. Expeditionary work takes a very different set of operational capabilities from those needed in blue-water fleet operations. The Navy must bring in the...
May 22, 2001

TechSolutions: New Technology in the Hands of Warfighters in 12 Months or Less

In the world of science and technology (S&T), getting a new product to warfighters in less than five years is nearly unheard of—unless you are talking about the TechSolutions program, which puts newly developed prototypes into warfighters’ hands in 12 months or less.
January 01, 2020

Fly Like an Eagle: New Launch and Recovery System Takes UAV Into the Future

An ONR-sponsored, shipboard-capable system designed to support the Scan Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle successfully completed testing Sept. 27, 2012.
January 01, 2012

ONR Strengthens Partnerships at Hispanic-American Conference

ONR will promote its science and technology opportunities at the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities 25th Annual Conference, Oct. 29-31, in San Antonio.
October 27, 2011

Small Businesses Look to Fill Navy's Technology Gaps

More than 700 attendees joined the Navy’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) team April 10-13, 2011.
April 15, 2011