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What: Fourth Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition When: Thursday, July 12 to Sunday, July 15, 2001 Where: U.S. Naval Academy, Hubbard Hall, Annapolis, MD. See 12 teams of college and high school student engineers pit their unmanned submersible vehicles for $20,000 in prizes...

Navy engineers are making final adjustments to a laser weapon prototype that will be the first of its kind to deploy aboard a ship late this summer.

ONR today launched a collaborative initiative with university researchers focused on synthetic, or engineered, cells—part of a larger effort to use the smallest units of life to help Sailors and Marines execute their missions.

Rear Adm. Giancarlo Stagno Canziani shared recovery efforts following Chile's 8.8-magnitude earthquake during a lecture at ONR on May 31, 2011.

Scientists based in the nation’s capital are stepping into the desert and rainforest to run experiments on autonomous systems without having to set foot outside the Navy’s new robotics laboratory, officials said April 2.

Taking its science-minded message to the Web, ONR launched profiles on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube earlier this year. The digital media initiative is part of a multipronged approach to help ONR communicate more directly and quickly with partners across government, academia and private industry.

College students from around the world will have a hand in shaping the future of ocean robotics as they compete in the first Maritime RobotX Challenge, which kicks off this week in Singapore.

Today, the White House Office of Science, Technology, and Policy (OSTP) released the “National Strategy for Aquatic Environmental DNA.” The Environmental DNA (eDNA) Task Team had 10 federal agencies participating in drafting the strategy and included significant scoping and engagement of the private sector, academia and non-profit organizations.

Dr. Robert Wilson and Dr. Paul Milgrom of Stanford University—both of whom previously received support from ONR—recently won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

On August 24, 2006, onlookers gathered at the shipyard of Alaska Ship & Drydock Inc. in Ketchikan, Alaska, to witness the keel laying of what will be a very unusual and versatile ship.