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Young Guns: Up-and-Coming ONR Talent Honored by White House
For achievements in fields ranging from robotic learning to photovoltaics, six researchers sponsored by the Office of Naval Research were honored with Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Naval Science and Technology Future Force Magazine
This is the official web site for the Naval Science & Technology Future Force magazine, managed by the Office of Naval Research on behalf of the naval research community.
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for Photonics, Power & Energy, Atmospherics, and Quantum Science
The Office of Naval Research's Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for Photonics, Power & Energy, Atmospherics, and Quantum Science program is focused on machine learning techniques that can be applied to photonics, power and energy, thermal management and controls, atmospherics, communication, and quantum science for improved naval capabilities.
Just What the Vet Ordered
In many domestic and exotic animal species, immunization with killed or live infectious organisms is an effective, low-risk, and relatively inexpensive method of protection against common infectious diseases. But they haven't worked in marine mammals and this is of concern to Navy veterinarians at...
A Mighty Wind: Using Wind Tunnels to Measure Sound by Deadening the Noise
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) sponsored a project at Virginia Tech University nearly 20 years ago that is now growing in influence across the world for measuring aerospace and aeronautical acoustics. Since noise reverberates against solid surfaces, such as the walls of a wind tunnel where acoustical testing takes place, collecting accurate sound data had been nearly impossible at the time. Researchers were also struggling to discern the sound of the wind tunnel’s air flow from the noise of the object traveling through it. After learning about some experiments on Kevlar as a wind screen, William Devenport, an engineering professor and director of Virginia Tech’s Stability Wind Tunnel, said he and a colleague wrote a proposal to then-ONR program officer Ron Joslin to try adding Kevlar to their wind tunnel walls. Devenport submitted the original grant proposal (N00014–04–1–04933) through the FY 2004 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) for alterations to Virginia Tech’s existing Stability Wind Tunnel that would allow it to measure flow-induced noise of relevance to Navy applications.