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Ocean Explorer: ONR Welcomes New Research Ship to Navy's Ranks

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) recently welcomed the U.S. Navy’s newest research vessel—R/V Sally Ride—for oceanographic research.

July 14, 2016

Navy Researchers Fire 1,000th Shot on Laboratory Electromagnetic Railgun

Navy researchers hit a materials research milestone in the Office of Naval Research's Electromagnetic Railgun program with its 1000th fire on Oct. 31.

October 31, 2011

ONR Global-Sponsored Researcher Wins Israel Prize

Israel awarded its highest cultural honor—the Israel Prize—to Dr. Shlomo Havlin, a physics professor at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, for his Office of Naval Research Global-sponsored work in physics.

April 24, 2018

Naval Cybernetics

The goal of the Naval Cybernetics program is to develop technologies and discover methods for creating small, numerous, consumable unmanned systems for our Naval forces, providing warfighters with artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled autonomous tools to enhance their abilities to fight the-fights-tonight as well as the-fights-to-come.

March 18, 2022

Brilliant at Any Age: ONR Researchers, Robots and MIT

Three researchers sponsored by the Office of Naval Research are being recognized as outstanding innovators by the MIT Technology Review, which is published to show how the world is being dramatically shaped by new technology.

September 07, 2016

Chief of Naval Research Issues Challenge for Innovation and the Future Force

The Chief of Naval Research (CNR) has issued a historic call for innovative ideas to support the Navy and Marine Corps of the future.

May 31, 2017

USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) Joins Fleet with Technologies Developed by the Office of Naval Research

The nation’s 10th and final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, the USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77), was commissioned on 10 January with a host of new technologies developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR

January 15, 2009

Office of Naval Research Key Partner at the “Rebooting Computing Summit” to Reignite Interest in Computer Science

With graduates in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields declining, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is partnering with computer science experts to encourage and inspire the next generation of technology professionals.

January 29, 2009

Special Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: MUST-HITS

Special Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: MUST-HITS

February 16, 2022

Oh, Baby! ONR Research Links Child's Play to Robot Learning

A team of researchers led by Dr. Rajesh Rao, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, recently published a paper showing how robots can learn much like children—amassing data by watching adults do something, determining the goal of the action and then deciding how to perform it on their own. Rao’s work is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

April 07, 2016