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Navy and Marines Enlist Industry for Transformation

Arlington, VA -- The Office of Naval Research is sponsoring the 3rd Annual Naval-Industry Research and Development Partnership Conference in Washington, DC, August 13-14, 2002. Dedicated to industry's role in transforming the Navy and Marine Corps to meet the challenges of the new century, these...
July 22, 2002

Radio Waves Peer Into Luggage to Find Contraband

Explosives or narcotics concealed in luggage, mailboxes or on a person can't hide from low frequency radio wave pulses which swiftly and safely detect the presence of the offending substance. Based on technology developed by researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C.,with...
January 01, 2001

Start Your Engines—Student Competition Inspires Teamwork and Innovation

Robotic boats will battle it out at the 6th International RoboBoat Competition, slated for July 8–14.
July 02, 2013

NOAA, Navy Continue Hunt For Lost Civil War Submarine Alligator

NOAA, with support from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), will return this week to the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” to continue the hunt for the Alligator, the U.S. Navy’s first submarine.
September 06, 2005

Cyber Boost: New Operating System Will Improve Navy Computing Power

With support from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Dr. Binoy Ravindran, an engineering professor at Virginia Tech, has designed a system that could revolutionize how military and commercial computing systems perform.
June 20, 2017

Happy Birthday, ONR: 70 Years of Game-Changing Science and Technology

As 2016 kicks into gear, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is kicking off a series of events throughout the year to celebrate 70 years of developing cutting-edge science and technology (S&T) for U.S. naval forces.
January 27, 2016

The Magic of Microbes: ONR Engineers Innovative Research in Synthetic Biology

An exciting new scientific frontier—synthetic biology—took center stage as a celebrated scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently spoke at the headquarters of the Office of Naval Research.
February 08, 2016

ONR to Lead Team of “Unmanned Warriors” to the United Kingdom

On Oct. 8-20, the U.S. Navy, led by the Office of Naval Research, will participate in the first-ever Unmanned Warrior joint exercise hosted by the British Royal Navy.
January 01, 2016

A Winning Bid: Stanford University Professors Share Nobel Prize in Economics

Dr. Robert Wilson and Dr. Paul Milgrom of Stanford University—both of whom previously received support from ONR—recently won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
January 28, 2021