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As the Navy prepares to deploy its first laser weapon on a ship later this summer, Office of Naval Research (ONR) officials announced June 11 that they have finished awarding contracts to develop a similar weapon to be used on ground vehicles.

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

Student-built autonomous underwater vehicles will speed through the depths of a Navy pool in a battle for supremacy at the 16th International RoboSub Competition, July 22–28, co-sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the Association of Unmanned Vehicles International Foundation.

The Office of Naval Research's Thermal Science and Engineering program advances thermal science through fundamental studies of multi-phase heat transfer, fluid dynamics and nanostructured materials.

An Office of Naval Research (ONR) grantee has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics for research into the properties of a two-dimensional material that could one day replace computer chips.

New ONR-sponsored findings by scientists at the University of Washington demonstrate that a five-minute measurement of resting-state brain activity predicted how quickly adults picked up a second language.

The Aircraft Technology Applications program is part of the Office of Naval Research's Naval Air Warfare and Weapons Department.

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.

The Office of Naval Research participated in Modern Day Marine, held April 30-May 2 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Modern Day Marine is the largest military equipment, systems, services and technology exposition exclusively targeted to the Marine Corps.

The Navy’s chief of naval research, Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, met this week with leaders from U.S. and Canadian government agencies to address research efforts in the Arctic, in response to dramatic and accelerating changes in summer sea ice coverage.