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Fine Fellows: DoN HBCI/MI Program Honors Winners at Distinguished Fellows Symposium

The DoN HBCU/MI Program recently hosted its Distinguished Fellows Symposium at the Office of Naval Research. The DoN HBCU/MI Distinguished Fellows Program provides HBCU/MI professors with faculty release time for three years, enabling them to focus exclusively on naval-relevant research.

July 24, 2024

Battle Blimps: ONR-Sponsored STEM Contest Shows Creativity of Student Engineers

The Office of Naval Research recently sponsored the Defend the Republic STEM competition at George Mason University in Virginia. The contest featured lighter-than-air vehicles, also called blimps.

August 01, 2024

Maintenance Alert: Portable Kit Analyzes Fluids to Gauge Health of Military Vehicles

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has sponsored the development of an integrated tool to make fluid and fuel analysis faster, easier and mobile. It’s called the Portable Fluid Analyzer Plus (PFA+).

September 30, 2024

Quantum computing: How early funding from U.S. Navy and Army supports groundbreaking technology

Quantum computers may be able to help create new pharmaceuticals, understand chemical reactions, solve certain problems that are otherwise intractable, create new materials and allow for highly disruptive applications in numerous sectors.

January 01, 2020

'Lucky Day': Navy Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Deepest Ocean Dive

The U.S. Navy recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of the ONR-sponsored Trieste dive to the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the ocean.

January 31, 2020

Former ONR Performers Win Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics

Since its creation in 1946, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has supported the early-career research of more than 60 Nobel laureates. ONR is proud to add two new names to that prestigious list — Dr. David Baker of the University of Washington (UW) and Dr. John Hopfield of Princeton University, who received the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry and physics, respectively.

January 23, 2025

'Tech Talk' with Dr. Mike Traweek

On Sept. 29, Dr. Michael Traweek answered questions about flow noise on Facebook and Twitter. See a transcript.

January 01, 2010

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

ONR Scientist Awarded for Fuel Cell Foresight

Dr. Richard Carlin, director of the Sea Warfare and Weapons Department in the Office of Naval Research (ONR), was honored with the 2010 Fuel Cell Seminar and Exposition Award on Oct. 19 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio.

October 19, 2010

ONR Global Shapes the Department of the Navy's Science & Technology Collaboration Worldwide

ONR Global acts as a technology broker, bridging operational Sailor and Marines with the Naval Research Enterprise.

July 22, 2011