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Interactive software that can dramatically cut the time it takes to plan safe submarine missions is crossing over to the surface fleet and is being installed this month on the guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53).

More than 300 high school and college engineering students tested their mechanical, electrical, computer and systems engineering skills while competing for cash prizes at the recent 20th International RoboSub Competition.

A laser with the potential to jam heat-seeking missiles and sniff out chemicals is one of 358 technologies patented by the U.S. Navy in 2012, helping the service dominate the government category in an annual ranking of patent portfolios published Oct. 23.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus discussed several ONR-funded technologies during his Dec. 7 visit to a Marine Corps Base in Hawaii.

Autonomy and the future force were in the spotlight, as nine student-led teams tested their maritime engineering skills during the 10th annual International RoboBoat Competition in Daytona Beach, Florida.

By Gail Cleere, Office of Naval Research For as long as we’ve been building boats and putting them in the water, we’ve been battling those pesky little ocean critters that want to attach themselves to our boats for a free ride. The ubiquitous, determined barnacle — not to mention tubeworms, oysters...

The Office of Naval Research today announced the award of 26 grants totaling $8.3 million as a result of the Fiscal Year 2003 ONR Young Investigator Program competition.

The P-3 Aircrew Tactical Team Trainer (PACT3), developed with funding from ONR, will be honored June 22 for improving anti-submarine warfare skills.

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...

Move over, Buck Rogers. Soon there may be a war-time battlefield where nary a human combatant is in view, but one in which swarms of unmanned, unattended, and untethered drones on the ground, in the air, and underwater are doing everything that is normally seen in a hostile combat zone: surveillance...