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Aid Missions Get Cutting-Edge Assistance from ONR

ONR-sponsored researchers will unveil a Web-based tool suite designed to help first responders to international crises, including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts, during a month-long rollout which begins this week.
February 09, 2012

ONR to Award More Than $175,000 in Scholarships at International Science Fair

ONR will award 22 scholarships to high school students at the International Science and Engineering Fair on May 8-13 in Los Angeles.
January 01, 2011

Sure Shot: ONR Tests Tech to Improve Marines' Shooting Accuracy, Resiliency

ONR recently tested two systems designed to improve Marines' marksmanship performance: the Human Performance EcoSystem and the Joint Marksmanship Assessment Package.
September 16, 2021

More than a Feeling: ONR Investigates 'Spidey Sense' for Sailors and Marines

Hunches are 50-50 propositions, but Navy researchers want to know if those facing the unexpected in the heat of battle can be trained to guess right more often than not.
January 01, 2014

Fiery Ice From the Sea

If you know anything about methane gas – and the Office of Naval Research thinks you should – it probably has something to do with swamp gas, and a faintly unpleasant sulfurous smell that rises from country marshes on sultry, summer evenings, or perhaps – for more romantic types – stories of Will-o'...
November 01, 2002

Move Over Smoke Detectors, Anthrax Detectors Are Coming

A researcher working under an Office of Naval Research grant is just a couple of months away from completing a prototype detector designed to sound the alarm when airborne microbes such as anthrax are in the air. Dr. Jeanne Small, a biophysicist and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Eastern...
October 01, 2001

Renowned Military Strategist Speaks at ONR

Dr. T. X. Hammes, a distinguished research fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, gave a presentation titled “Offshore Control: A Strategy for an Unlikely Conflict.”
June 18, 2012

Understanding the Influence of Coherent Flow Vortices on Surface Ship Maneuvering

Professor Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud of the Hamburg University of Technology in Germany provides details of this ONR Global funded project, which aims to understand the influence of coherent flow vortices on ship maneuvering.
January 01, 2020

National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) 2024

ONR BAA Announcement #N0001424SB003: National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) 2024
August 22, 2024

Enduring Presence as the Key Role for Building Trust Within the International S&T Community

I recently heard a lecture claiming that 90 percent of the scientists our planet has ever hosted are still working in science today. That is a remarkable number.
January 01, 2020