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Recruiting Robots: DoD Summit Promotes Robotics in Maintenance and Repair

ONR recently participated in the 2020 JROBOT Summit, which discussed bringing more robotics systems into sustainment.

March 13, 2020

Rewarding Work: ONR Autonomous System Finalist for Aviation Award

The National Aeronautic Association announced AACUS as one of its finalists for the 2017 Robert J. Collier Trophy, one of the top aviation awards in the world.

February 13, 2018

'Sim' Celebration: ONR Tech Displayed at World's Largest Simulation, Training Show

The Office of Naval Research displayed a range of training technologies at the 2015 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference—also called I/ITSEC.

December 04, 2015

From Autonomy to Information Dominance: ONR Forums Begin

On the heels of a vibrant meeting between some of the nation’s top minds in autonomy and unmanned systems, officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced today they will host a similar gathering of experts on the subject of information dominance and C4I (command, control, communications, computers and intelligence) later this year.

January 23, 2014

Cognitive Neuroscientist Shares Psychology of Brain Function in ONR Lecture Series

Dr. Michael Posner, a cognitive neuroscientist and University of Oregon professor emeritus, will share how attention works and how it can be mapped in the brain during a lecture from 1 to 2:30 p.m. March 31 at the Office of Naval Research.

March 30, 2010

Smart Materials For a Next-Gen Vehicle

The Marine Corps' M1A1 Abrams tanks and light armored vehicles that pulled heavy duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom are expected to serve us well until 2015 and 2020.

December 22, 2003

Boneless, Brainy, and Ancient

How to make a robotic arm that is able to flex in an infinite number of ways and order it to do so without disorder and confusion? Get yourself an octopus and study it. That is exactly what researchers funded by the Office of Naval Research are doing. Octopuses are boneless, brainy, and ancient...

November 01, 2001

Navy, Carnegie Mellon Enter Education Partnership

The Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University have entered into an Education Partnership Agreement to encourage and strengthen studies in the scientific disciplines.

August 15, 2018

ONR Moves a Modular Space Communications Asset into Unmanned Aircraft for Marines

The Software Reprogrammable Payload (SRP), a collaborative effort between the Office of Naval Research, the Naval Research Laboratory and Marine Corps aviation, is currently targeted for the Shadow unmanned aircraft system (UAS).

February 25, 2011

NOAA, Navy Continue Hunt For Lost Civil War Submarine Alligator

NOAA, with support from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), will return this week to the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” to continue the hunt for the Alligator, the U.S. Navy’s first submarine.

September 06, 2005