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The Office of Naval Research (ONR) makes broad investments in basic and applied research that will increase fundamental knowledge, foster opportunities for breakthroughs and provide technology options for future naval capabilities and systems.

The Strategic Competition Program invests in basic and applied research to further our understanding of strategic competition, develop capabilities to counter grey zone actions, and identify opportunities to enhance cooperation with allies and partners, particularly in terms of access, basing, and overflight.

The Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) Program, a technology transition initiative under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)), aims to test high Technology Readiness Level (TRL) items and technologies from our friends and allies to satisfy valid defense requirements quickly and economically.

The ONR Global International Science Program connects Sailors and Marines with groundbreaking science and technology around the world. Our team of highly skilled scientists and engineers, known as science directors, act as the Dept. of the Navy’s global scouts, identifying and assessing cutting-edge innovations that can enhance naval capabilities and enable mission success.

The Office of Naval Research's Physical Oceanography program is interested in receiving research planning letters on topics related to our primary focus areas of mesoscale and sub-mesoscale ocean processes, air-sea interaction, new ocean observing technologies and the education of the next generation of scientists.

The Oceanographic Research Facilities program manages, under a charter party agreement with selected universities, the operation and maintenance of all oceanographic research vessels owned by ONR for Department of the Navy.

NRE Connect provides an opportunity for new connections in areas of science and technology (S&T) research that are of interest to NRE program officers in the advancement of naval technological capability. Simply introduce yourself and your area(s) of expertise to be added, and help increase our experts' awareness of scientific expertise around the world.

The Office of Naval Research's Navy Undersea Research Program (NURP), in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, sponsors science and engineering graduate students pursuing thesis topics in core undersea weaponry technology areas.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is committed to identifying and attracting young scientists in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Scientists at Los Alamos National Lab, N.M., have achieved a remarkable breakthrough with the Office of Naval Research's Free Electron Laser (FEL) program, demonstrating an injector capable of producing the electrons needed to generate megawatt-class laser beams for the Navy's next-generation weapon system.