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Code 33 Naval Engineering Focus Area

The Naval Engineering Focus Area addresses the design, fabrication, integration and operation of ground and sea naval warfare platforms, sensors, weapons, networks and countermeasures to maximize their operational availability and effectiveness.​
March 18, 2022

2019 Young Investigator Award Recipients

See a list of the 2019 recipients of the U.S. Department of the Navy's Young Investigator Program.
March 18, 2022

Oceanic Control of Monsoon Intra-seasonal Oscillations in the Tropical Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal (MISO-BOB)

The Office of Naval Research is supporting a five-year department research initiative to better understand Air-Sea Interactions in the Northern Indian Ocean.
March 18, 2022

Littoral Geosciences and Optics

The Littoral Geosciences and Optics program (ONR 322LO) supports basic and applied research for expeditionary warfare, naval special warfare, mine warfare and antisubmarine warfare in shelf, near-shore, estuarine, riverine and riparian environments, with a particular emphasis on robust 4D prediction of environmental characteristics in denied, distant or remote environments.
March 18, 2022

Navy to Christen the Littoral Surface Craft – Experimental (X-Craft)

The Navy will christen X-Craft as Sea Fighter (FSF 1), Saturday, February 5, 2005, during a 12 noon PST ceremony at the Nichols Bros. Boat Builders yard in Freeland (Whidbey Island), Washington.
January 31, 2005

Propulsor Hydrodynamics, Hydroacoustics and Structural Dynamics

The Office of Naval Research's Propulsor Hydrodynamics and Hydroacoustics program explores science and technology related to the physics of fluid flow around propulsors to improve the Navy’s propulsor design capability for improved stealth, efficiency and mobility.
March 18, 2022

All Systems Go: Navy's Laser Weapon Ready for Summer Deployment

Navy engineers are making final adjustments to a laser weapon prototype that will be the first of its kind to deploy aboard a ship late this summer.
January 01, 2014

Simulation Technology Shows Navy How to Take a HIT

The Navy soon will begin using an Office of Naval Research (ONR) technology to predict injuries and improve medical responses in any kind of attack on ships, officials announced today.
February 12, 2015

U.S. Navy Demonstrates World's Most Powerful Electromagnetic Railgun at 10 MJ

The Navy´s Office of Naval Research successfully conducted a record-setting firing of an electromagnetic railgun at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA. An invited audience, including the Chief of Naval Operations, ADM Gary Roughead, witnessed this revolutionary technology in action.
January 31, 2008

Sea Warfare and Weapons

The Sea Warfare and Weapons Department develops and delivers knowledge, talent and technologies that enable unconstrained Naval missions.
September 13, 2023