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The stuff of Army and Marine Corps boot camp is legendary - mud, grueling marches, hours of, climbing and crawling with the requisite 100-lb pack, through smoke, barbed wire, gun and missile fire, with sweat, little sleep, scanty rations, and punishing, in-your-face "trainers." The culminating final...
October 03, 2002

Students Race Robot Submarines in 'Back to the Future'-Themed Competition

Students from around the globe competed for bragging rights and cash prizes in annual RoboSub Competition.
July 28, 2015

Unmanned Vehicles Take the Man Out Of the Minefield

As festivals go, AUVFest 2007 was more than a little unusual.
June 21, 2007

Attention on Deck: ONR Tech for Sailors, Marines and Kids on Display at Fleet Week NY

ONR will exhibit on Piers 86 and 92, as well as in Times Square, for Fleet Week New York 2014, May 21-27.
May 20, 2014

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

Deep Dive: ONR-Supported Research Combats Oxygen Toxicity in Navy Divers

Ketone esters—oral supplements useful in epilepsy treatment—are being studied to fight seizures caused by hyperbaric oxygen toxicity, a life-threatening byproduct of breathing too much oxygen that impacts deep-water divers.
December 08, 2015

A New Defense for Navy Ships: Protection from Cyber Attacks

The U.S. Navy is developing the RHIMES system, a cyber protection system designed to make its shipboard mechanical and electrical control systems resilient to cyber attacks.
September 17, 2015

ONR Helps Undersea Robots Get the Big Picture

In recent sea tests, ONR-sponsored scientists have demonstrated how new software can help robots become smarter at surveying large swaths of ocean.
December 02, 2011

Freeze Fighter: Warmer Wetsuit Will Increase Navy Dive Time

To protect U.S. Navy divers operating in freezing conditions, ONR is sponsoring work to design a wetsuit mirroring the insulating properties of animal blubber, allowing divers to swim in frozen waters for longer periods of time.
September 04, 2018

From Tanks to Tumors

What does remote sensing for camouflaged enemy ground vehicles have to do with breast cancer diagnosis? By next year, perhaps plenty. Both find threats in hidden in innocent clutter. The Office of Naval Research's newly developed 200 channel hyperspectral remote sensing capability — modeled on the...
August 22, 2002