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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.
May 19, 2025

2013 Young Investigator Award Recipients

See a list of the 2013 recipients of the U.S. Department of the Navy's Young Investigator Program.
March 18, 2022

FOIA Reading Room

Find resources for publicly available records and view annual reports for the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) program.
March 18, 2022

ONR Innovation Industry Day (I2D): Power & Energy

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) will host an Innovation Industry Day (I2D) on Thursday, May 14, 2026, focused on their Power & Energy portfolio.
June 03, 2025

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

ONR Rolls Out Combat and Tactical Vehicle Fleet at Modern Day Marine Expo

With several advanced warfare vehicles and a lineup of exciting technologies, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) will showcase its latest expeditionary equipment at the 2010 Modern Day Marine Exposition scheduled Sept. 28-30 at Quantico Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Va.
September 24, 2010

Division 322: Ocean, Atmosphere and Space Sciences

The Ocean, Atmosphere and Space Research Division concentrates on improving the Navy and Marine Corps’ understanding of environmental evolution, the assimilation of data and the limits of predictability. It plans, fosters and encourages an extensive program of scientific inquiry and technological development in fields ranging from environmental optics to high latitude dynamics.
March 18, 2022

Video Games Can Enhance Warrior Cognitive Performance

The U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps have been using simulators, virtual reality and video games to train Sailors and Marines for years. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is sponsoring research focused on understanding the cognitive effects that video games have on the human brain.
February 17, 2022

Navy Creates iPad App for Managing Stress and Fending off PTSD

The Office of Naval Research, in conjunction with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is sponsoring development of the Stress Resilience Training System (SRTS), an iPad app training program that teaches Sailors and Marines to understand their stress responses and manage them by learning biofeedback techniques that work for their individual needs. The affordable, hi-tech, solution could help prevent post-traumatic stress disorder, helping warfighters and potentially saving billions of dollars in associated medical costs.
March 06, 2013

Mathematical and Resource Optimization

The Office of Naval Research's Mathematical and Resource Optimization program supports basic research in optimization — focusing on the development of theory and algorithms for large-scale optimization problems.
March 18, 2022