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Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices
The Office of Naval Research's Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices program supports basic and applied research on materials and device technologies for Navy applications that generate, detect and suppress undersea signal for navigation, threat detection, weapons guidance, communication and the like.
March 18, 2022
Functional Polymeric and Organic Materials
The Office of Naval Research's Functional Polymeric and Organic Materials program is focused on exploring the inherent strengths/properties of organic and polymeric materials to bring new capability to the Navy.
March 18, 2022
Organic Photovoltaics
The Organic Photovoltaics program is part of the Office of Naval Research's Sea Warfare and Weapons Department.
March 18, 2022
Polymer Matrix Composites (PMC)
The Office of Naval Research's Polymer Matrix Composites (PMC) program has invested significantly in developing new structural fibers with better thermo-oxidative resistance, new non-toxic resins systems and sandwich cores with enhanced resistance to fire and its propagation, new additives to improve PMC inter-laminar properties, and new resin infusion models and processing tools for improving product quality and lowering manufacturing costs.
March 18, 2022
Stop that 'Dam' Noise: ONR and Nation's Engineers Tackle Noise at Hydroelectric Plants
ONR is joining the Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to explore noise controls at the nation's hydroelectric power plants.
March 26, 2012
UK scientists imitating biology to create self-healing living materials
The core objective of this groundbreaking effort is to exploit biology’s distinct ability to sustainably heal, replenish material and respond to constant damage while existing in harsh environments.
January 01, 2020
Riders on the Storm
While some are still cleaning up from the series of hurricanes that plowed through the Caribbean and southern United States this season, scientists supported by the Office of Naval Research are busily cleaning up valuable data collected during the storms.
November 17, 2004
Bringing Bandwidth to the Battlefield
In the world of Information Technology (IT), integrating different software packages is notoriously tough—there are lots of unintended consequences when you try to run different applications together—and even commodity hardware like PCs can break.
January 16, 2003
U.S. Navy and Royal Navy Unite: ONR Global's London Tech Bridge Fuels Transatlantic Leap in Naval Readiness
In a first-of-its-kind transatlantic hybrid event, the Royal Navy and U.S. Navy recently converged at His Majesty’s Naval Base (HMNB) Portsmouth and Downtown Norfolk, Virginia, to explore how cutting-edge computer vision technologies can revolutionize the maintenance and sustainment of platforms across air, land, and maritime domains, bolstering overall warfighting capabilities.
August 08, 2025