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The 2025 GlobalX Innovation Challenge: AI Innovations for Maritime Security Launched
The U.S. Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global), in partnership with the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) Singapore, is proud to announce the launch of the GlobalX Innovation Joint Challenge: AI for Advancing Maritime Security. This nine-month international science challenge offers significant research partnerships to encourage groundbreaking research from around the world.
The Navy and Navajo Nation: Foundations for a Research Relationship
The Department of the Navy’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions program recently held its first outreach event at a Native American university or college—Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint, New Mexico.
ONR Global Connecting With International Naval Community at MAST Europe 2011
he Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global is reaching out to global maritime security and defense community members at MAST Europe 2011, June 27-29, in Marseille, France.
Onward, Upward: 2022 Naval Horizons Contest Boasts Greatest Number of Winners Yet
The results are in for the recent Naval Horizons student essay contest. The contest organizer, the Department of the Navy's (DoN) Naval STEM Coordination Office (NSCO), which is located at the Office of Naval Research, is excited about the growth of the contest since its premiere. In the 2022 contest, over 710 students were awarded a $200 cash prize.
NAVSEA Chief Engineer Presents ONR's Next Distinguished Lecture
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) will host its next distinguished lecturer Dec. 13 with a narrative that involves a torpedoed ship and global intrigue.
ONR-Supported Nobel Prize Winning Scientist Speaks in Arlington
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist—who helped isolate a new ultra-thin material called graphene that could revolutionize everything from circuits to industrial processes—spoke at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) on Oct. 17.
Dr. Tom Drake
Dr. Tom Drake is the head of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department.
ONR at 75: Virtual Anniversary Event to Highlight Future of Naval Power
On Thursday, Sept. 30, senior naval and congressional leaders will participate in a special Office of Naval Research-sponsored virtual event to discuss “The Future of Warfare.”
U.S. Navy Sails by Competition for Number, Quality of Patents
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.
ONR Global sponsors winning round of naval Hacking for Defense challenge in Chile
The Avante 2020 Challenge, with the financial support of the local Naval Polytechnic Academy through its INNOVAPOLINAV program, the Production Development Corporation (CORFO), and the Office of Naval Research Global, selected two winning teams to develop a technological solution to a set of problems proposed by the Chilean Navy.