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Navy Answers Olympian Call

With the expected 70,000 daily visitors to the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City this month, reliable communications are essential. Even the best laid plan needs a backup, and that's why the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C., has its mobile communications center ready in Salt...

January 01, 2002

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Learn how to submit a winning proposal to the Office of Naval Research.

March 18, 2022

ONR Hosts Training Simulator Demonstration

The latest upgrades to the Infantry Immersion Trainer will be demonstrated to Department of Defense officials at Camp Pendleton on Oct. 7, 2010.

October 06, 2010

E-Nose Noses Out Mines

Canines are known for their sensitive sniffers, but now scientists have developed an artificial nose that can operate without chow or regular walks and won't bark at squirrels. Researchers at Tufts University constructed an electronic nose that has about 20 attributes of living noses and their...

April 01, 2001

Brainy Cameras

In about half a second, the human brain (specifically the superior colliculus) will analyze its current environment, and then decide whether or not one thing or another is worth taking any notice of. Exactly how the brain does this is still somewhat a mystery, but we do know that the more sensory...

September 01, 2001

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

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

ONR-Global Fosters Partnerships With Global Science & Technology Community at ExpoNaval

ONR Partnerships Global Community ExpoNaval

December 12, 2008

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March 18, 2022

ONR Looks to Lighten the Load for Marines

The Marine Corps is focused on the need to “Lighten the Load” for the warfighter—and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is putting heavy effort into innovative new technologies that will help.

January 01, 2012