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Things are crackling on the giant Jovian moon, Europa, and a group of earth-bound ocean scientists funded by the Office of Naval Research are intrigued… could Jupiter's Europa be hiding an ocean of water under that icy surface? A salty ocean… larger than all the oceans of the earth combined? The...

In today's new world of network centric warfare, where there is an ever-greater dependence on vast amounts of information that must be received and transmitted, too many antennas are a shipboard problem. They're heavy, they tend to interfere with one another, and they're unstealthy because they...

ONR Global TechSolutions sponsored the development of the MK29 Mixed Gas Rebreather, a new prototype system that’s the first of its kind within the Navy diving community.

Developed in partnership with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and Coda Octopus, the Divers Augmented Vision Display (DAVD) system — which enables divers to better operate in inhospitable underwater environments — was recently applied to efforts to preserve the area around the USS Arizona Memorial.

Gathered in a temporary maritime operations center in Arlington, Virginia, military, industry and political leaders watched multiple satellite images flash onto large monitor screens. These images showed three types of drug-running vessels hundreds of miles away in the Atlantic Ocean — a small, fast, highly maneuverable boat capable of transferring illicit cargo between ships on the high seas; a support ship with a crane for loading and unloading contraband; and a tugboat serving as the recipient ship for smuggling cargo into the U.S. The scenario was part of a larger July 2023 experimentation event designed to emulate drug-smuggling activities in the maritime domain as well as efforts to deter the flow of such contraband. Called the SCOUT Main Experimentation Event, the two-week exercise involved partners such as the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Joint Inter-Agency Task Force-South (JIATF-S), U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), and numerous naval warfare centers and industry and academic partners. Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Kurt Rothenhaus, who was one of several ONR leaders at the maritime operations center, said, “I’m truly impressed by the innovation, teaming and analytic rigor you’ve all brought to this exercise. Your pioneering approach is leading the way for us to learn faster with new partners to tackle the hardest operational challenges.”

Scientists sponsored by the Office of Naval Research have traveled to the Arctic Ocean to study the changing environment, and provide new tools to help the U.S. Navy operate in a once-inaccessible area.

As the services scramble to adapt to 21st century visions of "network-centric warfare" that call for vast growth in tactical information exchange, they'll be looking for innovative ways to multiply communications networking capabilities—while slashing costs. All the services are looking at...

Representatives from the Office of Naval Research, the Naval Research Laboratory and the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory will talk about research efforts and ongoing projects at the Sea Air Space Exposition in National Harbor, Md.

A product of ONR’s TechSolutions program, Food Service Management System 3 is a next-generation upgrade of the current DOS-based software design, which expires in October. FSM3 offers menu-planning tools, recipes, nutritional analyses, budget information and inventory tracking.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global is on a mission to strengthen U.S. naval capabilities by bridging the gap between scientists and warfighters who serve at sea. One of the ways the command does so is through the Scientist-to-Sea (S2S) program, which invites U.S. government and industry-partner scientists and engineers to experience Navy installations and ships in-person whenever possible.