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ONR-funded Researchers Examine New Approaches for Future Manned and Unmanned Aircraft Operations Aboard Carriers

DCAP is an ONR-funded effort to examine how aircraft carrier flight deck crews will manage manned and unmanned air vehicles.
July 13, 2011

ONR-funded Military Satellite Arrives at Alaska Launch Pad

The Navy’s new joint tactical communications satellite arrived at Alaska’s Kodiak Launch Complex on March 1.
March 15, 2011

Navy Honored for Pace, Quality of Inventions

Navy scientists and engineers in 2012 once again had the world’s most significant government portfolio of newly patented discoveries and inventions, according to a November report published by the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
January 01, 2012

Cool Running Semiconductors

Solid-state semiconductors don't handle heat very well. If they're operated at high power, they tend to burn out. Heat poses other problems as well—the hotter the device, the greater the electrical resistance (and the lower the efficiency). Digital semiconductor devices also have capacitive elements...
December 06, 2002

'Tech Talk' with Keith Hammack

In this transcript from the Office of Naval Research's online series, Tech Talk, deputy manager Keith Hammack answers questions about ONR's autonomous ground vehicles.
January 01, 2010

Taking Up Space

Students don't ordinarily build satellites. And satellites aren't usually launched in Alaska. But Starshine-3 and PC-Sat are not your ordinary satellites. On August 31st, Starshine-3, built with the help of hundreds of grade school students from around the world, and PC-Sat, designed and built from...
July 01, 2001

Chilling With Sound

Have a hankering to chill your Cherry Garcia™ and to listen to Jerry Garcia using the same system? The concept may not be too far off. The Office of Naval Research has long funded researchers at Penn State who now have proved they can build a compact freezer case substituting sound waves for...
December 06, 2002

Capt. Eric "Nutt" Hutter

Capt. Eric Hutter reported as commanding officer, ONR Global, in September 2025.
August 04, 2023

LDUUV-INP, Swarming UAVs on display at Sea-Air-Space

For the first time ever, ONR will unveil the Large Displacement UUV and Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology at the Sea-Air-Space Expo.
April 08, 2015

Countdown Begins for Launch of Navy Communications Satellite

The Navy began counting down the final days to a Sept. 27 launch of its new joint tactical satellite, which will bring on-the-go communications to the battlefield.
September 12, 2011