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Maritime Sensing

The Office of Naval Research's Maritime Sensing program conducts multidisciplinary science and technology, research and development of acoustic and non-acoustic sensors and transduction systems as a means to provide next-generation sensing technologies for the Navy’s tactical surveillance and undersea warfare missions.
March 18, 2022

Computational Methods for Decision Making – Resource Optimization

The Office of Naval Research Computational Methods for Decision Making Applied Research Program is composed of three thrusts—Large-scale Distributed Decision-making, Automated Image Understanding and Resource Optimization.
March 18, 2022

How Latin America is changing the world through science and innovation

There is groundbreaking science happening in every corner of the world. Latin America is no exception.
January 01, 2020

Expeditionary Energy

The Office of Naval Research's Expeditionary Energy program seeks breakthrough technologies to support the future of hybrid and expeditionary warfare.
March 18, 2022

Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education Information Sciences (MPTE-IS)

The Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education Information Sciences portfolio funds basic research, applied research and advanced technology development in metrics development, data ontology, data mining and machine learning to optimize performance, manpower modelling, personnel screening, training and education opportunities for the warfighter within the Naval enterprise.
March 18, 2022

Fuel Flexibility for Contingency Operations

The Office of Naval Research's Fuel Flexibility for Contingency Operations program comprises basic and applied research to support naval needs for operational energy resilience and sustained operations when conventional fuels are not abundantly available. This program seeks technological breakthroughs to enable the generation of synthetic fuels from abundant and logistically compatible resources.
March 18, 2022

Boneless, Brainy, and Ancient

How to make a robotic arm that is able to flex in an infinite number of ways and order it to do so without disorder and confusion? Get yourself an octopus and study it. That is exactly what researchers funded by the Office of Naval Research are doing. Octopuses are boneless, brainy, and ancient...
November 01, 2001

Prize-Winning Prose: Naval STEM Announces Winners of Naval Horizons Essay Contest

The results are in for the recent Naval Horizons student essay contest, organized by the Naval STEM Coordination Office, which is located at the Office of Naval Research.
October 20, 2021

Deep Impact: New Diving Suit Could Increase Undersea Range of Navy Divers

Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) — in partnership with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) and Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Panama City — the Deep Sea Expeditionary with No Decompression (DSEND) system recently underwent demonstrations at NSWC Carderock Division in Maryland and at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit in Florida.
April 25, 2023

Subsurface Platform Science & Technology

The Office of Naval Research's Subsurface Platform Science & Technology program is focused on preserving and advancing the advantage of U.S. Navy platforms over adversaries.
March 18, 2022