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NRL Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Historic Lunar Orbiter, Clementine

NRL Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Historic Lunar Orbiter, Clementine

The Deep Space Program Science Experiment (DSPSE), better known as “Clementine,” was developed and built by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Launched January 25, 1994, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Califor... More

European Space Agency (ESA) engineers building the

European Space Agency (ESA) engineers building the

European Space Agency (ESA) engineers building the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft at Matra Marconi Space in Portsmouth, England, Nov. 22, 1995. The SOHO spacecraft was prepared for launch ... More

A massive sandstorm blowing off the northwest African

A massive sandstorm blowing off the northwest African

A massive sandstorm blowing off the northwest African desert has blanketed hundreds of thousands of square miles of the eastern Atlantic Ocean with a dense cloud of Saharan sand. The massive nature of this part... More

NRL Computer Security Pioneer Dr. John McLean Retires

NRL Computer Security Pioneer Dr. John McLean Retires

Dr. John D. McLean, computer security pioneer, and senior administrator of the Information Technology Division for the Systems Directorate at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory retires after 39 years of service... More

NRL Marine Meteorology Division

NRL Marine Meteorology Division

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Marine Meteorology Division in Monterey, California, houses a team of scientists and engineers who work in conjunction with the lab’s broader scientific community to provide... More

NRL Researcher Receives American Ceramic Society Richard M. Fulrath Award

NRL Researcher Receives American Ceramic Society Richard M. Fulrath Aw...

Edward Gorzkowski III, Ph.D., received the American Ceramic Society Richard M. Fulrath Award, Oct. 1, 2020, for excellence in research and development of ceramic sciences and materials.

Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module (PRAM)

Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module (PRAM)

Image of the Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module (PRAM) with a 12-inch ruler for scale. The hardware is the first orbital experiment designed to convert sunlight for microwave power transmission for sol... More

US Naval Research Lab to Showcase Innovations at Military Invention Day

US Naval Research Lab to Showcase Innovations at Military Invention Da...

Dr. Amit Bagchi, Dr. Peter Matic, and Dr. Thomas O'Shaughnessy (left to right) use GelMan surrogates, made of synthetic bones and soft tissue, to test helmets and armor for the military. "Our job is to provide ... More

Scientific Development Squadron (VXS) 1

Scientific Development Squadron (VXS) 1

The NP-3C is an all-weather, medium-altitude, longendurance aircraft configured to rapidly integrate science and technology projects.

Dr. Russell Howard, an astrophysicist at the US Naval

Dr. Russell Howard, an astrophysicist at the US Naval

Dr. Russell Howard, an astrophysicist at the US Naval Research Laboratory's Space Science Division, is the principal investigator for the Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe instrument.

Hemantha Wijesekera, Ph.D, NRL research oceanographer,

Hemantha Wijesekera, Ph.D, NRL research oceanographer,

Hemantha Wijesekera, Ph.D, NRL research oceanographer, led a team of scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Army Research Laboratory, and the National Aquatic Research and... More

NRL Breakthrough Enables Safer Alternative to Lithium-ion Batteries

NRL Breakthrough Enables Safer Alternative to Lithium-ion Batteries

The NRL team Debra R. Rolison, Jeffrey W. Long, and Joseph F. Parker were recognized June 22, 2016 by now-acting Secretary of the Navy Sean J. Stackley (far left), and Delores Etter (far right) with Dr. Delores... More

PORT HUENEME, Calif. – Naval Facilities Engineering

PORT HUENEME, Calif. – Naval Facilities Engineering

PORT HUENEME, Calif. – Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC), DOD Lock Program, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Team Lead, Andy Varnava, explains the latest inno... More

NRL's Dr. Gerald M. Borsuk Receives 2017 Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award

NRL's Dr. Gerald M. Borsuk Receives 2017 Presidential Distinguished Ex...

170306-N-JF840-003 WASHINGTON Dr. Gerald M. Borsuk, Associate Director of Research for the Systems Directorate at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, is bestowed the 2017 Presidential Rank Award for extraordina... More

First deployment of an earlier version of the Ice-tethered

First deployment of an earlier version of the Ice-tethered

First deployment of an earlier version of the Ice-tethered acoustic Buoy (ITAB), March 2017.

The U.S. Navy maintains a large fleet of ocean gliders

The U.S. Navy maintains a large fleet of ocean gliders

The U.S. Navy maintains a large fleet of ocean gliders for environmental measurement. Ocean gliders are slow-moving, long-endurance, underwater vehicles that gather data as they travel through the ocean’s inter... More

An Iver3-580 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle is put on

An Iver3-580 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle is put on

An Iver3-580 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle is put on display during an informational brief aboard Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Sept. 6, 2017. The AUV was demonstrated by the Naval Research Laboratory and 3rd Recon... More

Benjamin Gould, Individual Scientist: Gould designed

Benjamin Gould, Individual Scientist: Gould designed

Benjamin Gould, Individual Scientist: Gould designed and demonstrated a one-to-five kilowatt hydrogen fuel cell that incorporates ingenious, lightweight, metal bipolar plates with formed (stamped) air, fuel and... More

Thomas L. Carroll, a research physicist from the U.S.

Thomas L. Carroll, a research physicist from the U.S.

Thomas L. Carroll, a research physicist from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Center for Computational Materials Science, was recognized as a Citation Laureate “of Nobel Class” for research in nonlinear dyn... More

Gravitational Waves, US Navy Photogrpah

Gravitational Waves, US Navy Photogrpah

Artists’ conception of the merger of two neutron stars. Top panel: two stars are still separated, but starting to spiral together and already emitting gravitational waves; Bottom panel: collision has occurred a... More

NRL/USNA MOA, US Navy Photogrpah

NRL/USNA MOA, US Navy Photogrpah

180124-N-MY922-001 - Dr. Andrew T. Phillips (ctr), U.S. Naval Academy academic dean and provost, signs a Memorandum of Agreement with U.S. Naval Research Laboratory commanding officer, Capt. Scott Moran, accomp... More

NRL names Sandhoo as superintendent for spacecraft engineering

NRL names Sandhoo as superintendent for spacecraft engineering

On April 1, 2018, Dr. Gurpartap “GP” Sandhoo was selected for appointment to the Senior Executive Service at the US Naval Research Laboratory and for assignment as the Superintendent for Spacecraft Engineering ... More

The 168-acre Chesapeake Bay Detachment, belonging to

The 168-acre Chesapeake Bay Detachment, belonging to

The 168-acre Chesapeake Bay Detachment, belonging to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, is home to many wetland birds and waterfowl to include the American Bald Eagle and wood duck, and many of the state’s nat... More

NRL Meteorologist presents new wildfire climate research to global scientists

NRL Meteorologist presents new wildfire climate research to global sci...

NRL meteorologist Dr. David Peterson (far left) explained his findings from his recent research, “Wildfire-Driven Thunderstorms Cause a Volcano-Like Stratospheric Injection of Smoke,” during a press conference ... More

Dr. Heonjune Ryou, a postdoctoral fellow in the US

Dr. Heonjune Ryou, a postdoctoral fellow in the US

Dr. Heonjune Ryou, a postdoctoral fellow in the US Naval Research Laboratory's Chemistry Division, operates machinery used in nanocrystalline ceramics research.

Premier Navy squadron receives new leadership, thanks outgoing commander

Premier Navy squadron receives new leadership, thanks outgoing command...

Cmdr. Erik M. Thomas, right, relieved Cmdr. David G. Neall, left, of duty as the commanding officer of the NRL’s Scientific Development Squadron One (VXS 1) “Warlocks” during a change of command ceremony at Nav... More

LT Peter Kowalcyk of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's

LT Peter Kowalcyk of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's

LT Peter Kowalcyk of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Radar Division

Dr. Jaret C. Riddick (left) listens as Allen O’Hara,

Dr. Jaret C. Riddick (left) listens as Allen O’Hara,

Dr. Jaret C. Riddick (left) listens as Allen O’Hara, facilities manager of NRL’s Laboratory for Autonomous Research, briefs the tour on the lab’s robotics capabilities.

Michael Walder, superintendent, Radar Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Michael Walder, superintendent, Radar Division, U.S. Naval Research La...

Mr. Michael Walder is appointed to the Senior Executive Service at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., and is assigned superintendent of NRL’s Radar Division. (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory/J... More

NRL increases UAV endurance with Solar Soaring technology

NRL increases UAV endurance with Solar Soaring technology

The Solar-Soaring UAV was on display recently during the World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion where the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory displayed its use of solar cells on the endurance-enhancing t... More

Capt. Ricardo Vigil, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Capt. Ricardo Vigil, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Capt. Ricardo Vigil, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)’s new commanding officer, addresses the audience at the change of command ceremony in Washington, D.C., June 17, 2019. Vigil became the 40th NRL command... More

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory was invited by the

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory was invited by the

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory was invited by the Smithsonian Science Education Center to share cutting-edge research with the Smithsonian Science Education Academy for Teachers 2018 summer cohort at the N... More

180812-N-DW182-056 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Aug. 11, 2018)

180812-N-DW182-056 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Aug. 11, 2018)

180812-N-DW182-056 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Aug. 11, 2018) NASA launches the Parker Solar Probe from Space Launch Complex 37 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Wide-Field ... More

Next-Generation DNA Delivery Devices

Next-Generation DNA Delivery Devices

A number of DNA vaccine delivery devices are in commercial development which have the potential to overcome these logistical burdens. Several of them will be evaluated by medical personnel at the Delivery of Nu... More

Ebola Virus Disease, US Navy Photogrpah

Ebola Virus Disease, US Navy Photogrpah

When Ebola virus disease (EVD) reared its head in May in the Congo, the world was armed with the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine thanks to interagency collaboration efforts by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical ... More

NRL Names Jay L. Cooper Associate Director of Research for Business Operations

NRL Names Jay L. Cooper Associate Director of Research for Business Op...

Jay L. Cooper, Associate Director of Research for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Business Operations Directorate.

NRL Tech Transfer Office Forges Collaboration with Tech Incubator

NRL Tech Transfer Office Forges Collaboration with Tech Incubator

190130-D-XG408-802 - WASHINGTON (Jan. 30, 2019) 1776’s host walks center-stage before the Innovation Discovery Event, where four NRL researchers presented to a panel of private and public, research and developm... More

NRL, AFRL Develop Direct-Write Quantum Calligraphy in Monolayer Semiconductors

NRL, AFRL Develop Direct-Write Quantum Calligraphy in Monolayer Semico...

(a) Illustration showing an atomic force microscope (AFM) tip indenting the transition-metal dichalcogenide/polymer structure to introduce local strain. (b) Patterned single photon emission in tungsten diseleni... More

The NRL Space Physics Simulation Chamber

The NRL Space Physics Simulation Chamber

The NRL Space Physics Simulation Chamber

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory inspires the next generation of scientists during Navy Week Puerto Rico

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory inspires the next generation of scienti...

Mayaguez, Puerto Rico — Navy researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Space and Marine Meteorology teams presented STEM at University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez and other educational institutions as p... More

NRL Develops Laser Processing Method to Increase Efficiency of Optoelectronic Devices

NRL Develops Laser Processing Method to Increase Efficiency of Optoele...

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) discovered a new method to passivate defects in next generation optical materials to improve optical quality and enable the miniaturization of light emitti... More

NRL’s remote sensing division analyzes ground characteristics in Australia

NRL’s remote sensing division analyzes ground characteristics in Austr...

Physical scientists and engineers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory collect soil samples and conduct ground measurements with collaborators during a 2019 Australian field expedition to validate remote sen... More

NRL Tests Sensor On-orbit the ISS to Protect Space-Based Assets

NRL Tests Sensor On-orbit the ISS to Protect Space-Based Assets

The Space PlasmA Diagnostic suitE (SPADE) experiment (tower-like structures in photo), is shown integrated onto the Space Test Program-Houston 6 (STP-H6) pallet. Developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory ... More

Researchers transmit energy with laser in ‘historic’ power-beaming demonstration

Researchers transmit energy with laser in ‘historic’ power-beaming dem...

Captured by a special camera, a laser beam invisible to the naked eye shoots across the dark expanse of the David Taylor Model Basin at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

A handful of attendees of the Power Transmitted Over

A handful of attendees of the Power Transmitted Over

A handful of attendees of the Power Transmitted Over Laser (PTROL) project demonstration stand near the system’s 2-kilowatt laser transmitter.

NRL Develops Environmentally and Painter-Friendly Topcoat for Aircraft

NRL Develops Environmentally and Painter-Friendly Topcoat for Aircraft

Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper helicopter is painted with one-component (1K) camouflage gray polysiloxane topcoat on the exterior. U.S. Naval Research Laboratory chemists developed the new topcoat for DoD aircraft, w... More

NRL Introduces Newly Acquired Aircraft for Airborne Research

NRL Introduces Newly Acquired Aircraft for Airborne Research

180612-N-UI176-0181 PATUXENT RIVER, Md. (June 12, 2019) The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s exclusive science and technology research squadron, Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1), “Warlocks,” add the ... More

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute to add PUNCH to NASA’s solar mission lineup

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute to add PU...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Narrow Field Imager shown on one of the four PUNCH micro-satellites. PUNCH will provide imaging of the solar wind from low Earth orbit. Work was funded by NASA.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory ‘connects the dots’ for quantum networks

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory ‘connects the dots’ for quantum network...

Schematic of a nanoscale structure called a ‘photonic crystal waveguide’ that contains quantum dots that can interact with one another when they are tuned to the same wavelength. (Image credit: Chul Soo Kim, US... More

NRL tropical cyclone forecast updates go live

NRL tropical cyclone forecast updates go live

COAMPS-TC predicts heavy rain around where Barry makes landfall, with a sizeable region predicted to receive over 15 inches of rain and potentially over 30 inches in certain locations therein.

Image: MarineTraffic's Density Map format showing vessel

Image: MarineTraffic's Density Map format showing vessel

Image: MarineTraffic's Density Map format showing vessel trajectories from billions of data points from 2017. The ‘cool’ colored lines signify that a route has not been taken often, the ‘warm’ colored lines sig... More

Dr. Adam D. Dunkelberger Awarded  Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Dr. Adam D. Dunkelberger Awarded Presidential Early Career Award for ...

Dr. Adam D. Dunkelberger (l), NRL research chemist, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from Kelvin Droegemeier, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, on... More

NRL Pigment Package for Ships Slows Discoloration, Lowers Solar Temperature Load

NRL Pigment Package for Ships Slows Discoloration, Lowers Solar Temper...

NRL is currently working with Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Systems Engineering Directorate, Ship Integrity & Performance Engineering (SEA 05P) to transition the new pigment combination into a military speci... More

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's VXS-1 Squadron Welcomes 13th Commander

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's VXS-1 Squadron Welcomes 13th Commande...

Cmdr. Erik Thomas salutes and is relieved by Cmdr. Jared Tharp as commander of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) VXS-1 Squadron during the VXS-1’s change of command ceremony Aug. 1.

Barnacle samples in pressure cycling technology (PCT)

Barnacle samples in pressure cycling technology (PCT)

Barnacle samples in pressure cycling technology (PCT) tubes and bullet with barnacle samples in the background are used for proteomics analysis at U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. August 2, 2019... More

Weather forecasting team tracks, predicts ‘fire-cloud’ phenomenon

Weather forecasting team tracks, predicts ‘fire-cloud’ phenomenon

Photo of a Pyrocumulonimbus cloud (pyroCB) taken over the Pacific Northwest on Aug. 8, 2019 during the FIREX-AQ field campaign from the cockpit of the NASA DC-8 aircraft. (U.S. Navy photo by Dr. David Peterson)

Study Uncovers a Strategy that Viruses use to Evade Immediate Immune Responses

Study Uncovers a Strategy that Viruses use to Evade Immediate Immune R...

DNA, RNA, Protein? Three mechanisms of silencing that are guided by a short sequence. In each case a short sequence is used to identify a larger target sequence; these mechanisms are analogous to “search and de... More

Anna Stumme, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory electrical

Anna Stumme, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory electrical

Anna Stumme, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory electrical engineer makes adjustments to an array inside the anechoic chamber at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., Sep. 5, 2019. Stumme creates ... More

Vanguard I – the first Navy satellite on-orbit and

Vanguard I – the first Navy satellite on-orbit and

Vanguard I – the first Navy satellite on-orbit and the first solar powered satellite. Vanguard I is the oldest spacecraft still orbiting the Earth.

NRL launches space weather instrument on NASA satellite

NRL launches space weather instrument on NASA satellite

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Michelson Interferometer for Global High-Resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI) payload launched on NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission to study the effects... More

NRL’s Washington, D.C.’s campus kicked off its annual

NRL’s Washington, D.C.’s campus kicked off its annual

NRL’s Washington, D.C.’s campus kicked off its annual Combined Federal Campaign with a “Fall Fest” of live music, food trucks, ice cream, games, and CFC giving Oct. 17. Several nonprofit organizations joined t... More

Scientific Development Squadron (VXS) 1

Scientific Development Squadron (VXS) 1

The RC-12M is a medium-altitude, medium-endurance aircraft belonging to Scientific Development Squadron (VXS) 1

Evan Groopman, a research physicist, prepares a microscopic

Evan Groopman, a research physicist, prepares a microscopic

Evan Groopman, a research physicist, prepares a microscopic uranium particle sample to be measured in the NAUTILUS instrument in the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the U.S. Naval Research Laborator... More

NRL, BSEE Advance Technology Readiness of Low-Emission Burner System

NRL, BSEE Advance Technology Readiness of Low-Emission Burner System

AP853-N-191113-004 CHESAPEAKE BAY DETACHMENT (November 13, 2019) C.J. Pfutzner, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) mechanical engineer, runs to get on station to man the fire hose as Steven Tuttle, NRL combus... More

Atmospheric Rivers, US Navy Photogrpah

Atmospheric Rivers, US Navy Photogrpah

Screen capture of the world’s atmospheric rivers, which account for most of the horizontal moisture transport outside of the tropics. NRL meteorologists plan to participate in a cooperative study in 2020 in the... More

NRL, NASA Combine to Produce Sun Imagery with Unprecedented Clarity

NRL, NASA Combine to Produce Sun Imagery with Unprecedented Clarity

This image recorded by U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) cameras on April 6, 2019 captured the solar outflow and coronal structures on the left, and the Milky Way a... More

Earth System Prediction Capability

Earth System Prediction Capability

The various model components that make up the Earth System Prediction Capability (ESPC): The NAVy Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM) for the atmosphere, the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) for the ocean,... More

Australia brush fire between Dec. 29, 2019 and Jan. 4, 2020 - CIMSS

Australia brush fire between Dec. 29, 2019 and Jan. 4, 2020 - CIMSS

MADISON, Wis. – This image from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-17 shows New Zealand in the lower left. The brownish-gray plume in the center is the large smoke aerosol mass that formed in... More

The Earth System Prediction Capability

The Earth System Prediction Capability

The various model components that make up the Earth System Prediction Capability (ESPC): The NAVy Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM) for the atmosphere, the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) for the ocean,... More

Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb)

Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb)

Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) are massive thunderstorm clouds created by heat and fire. Such clouds, which can reach heights of more than 8 kilometers, heave intense wind, thunderbolts, and smoke toward anything in... More

The Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines

The Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines

The Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex)

NRL power-beaming demonstrated on International Space Station

NRL power-beaming demonstrated on International Space Station

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir demonstrates how the LEctenna™, a light-emitting rectifying antenna constructed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, converts electromagnetic waves into electric current on the Int... More

A Wirewalker, driven by waves and currents, sits at

A Wirewalker, driven by waves and currents, sits at

A Wirewalker, driven by waves and currents, sits at the ocean’s surface during a field campaign led by oceanographers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The Wirewalker was equipped with a variety of inst... More

NRL researchers create electronic diodes beyond 5G performance

NRL researchers create electronic diodes beyond 5G performance

David Storm, a research physicist, and Tyler Growden, a National Research Council postdoctoral researcher, at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory with their molecular beam epitaxy system that develops gallium ni... More

NRL Global Ocean Forecast System (GOFS)

NRL Global Ocean Forecast System (GOFS)

The purple dot shows the location of the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer on March 18 off the coast of Antarctica. The blue arrows indicate sea ice drift in the region from the Community Ice CodE (CICE) mode... More

NRL researchers create electronic diodes beyond 5G performance

NRL researchers create electronic diodes beyond 5G performance

A simplified view of the gallium nitride-based resonant tunneling diode developed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Electronic Science and Technology Division and its performance characteristics. NRL rese... More

NRL-developed Ocean Prediction System Steers Ice-Bound Antarctic Vessel to Open Waters

NRL-developed Ocean Prediction System Steers Ice-Bound Antarctic Vesse...

Personnel aboard the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer on March 15 as it moves into the Bellingshausen Sea enjoy a Sunday morning sunrise. The crew participated in the International Thwaites Glacier Collabora... More

Research physicist Jake Fontana stands next to the

Research physicist Jake Fontana stands next to the

Research physicist Jake Fontana stands next to the Nanoparticle aeRosoL (NRL) instrument at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The benchtop instrument measures the behavior of gases with particles of nanometer... More

Brett Huhman, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory senior

Brett Huhman, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory senior

Brett Huhman, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory senior research engineer, communicates with other team members over video chat during testing pulsed Xenon gas lamp source in support of COVID-19 at Washington, D.C.... More

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory argon fluoride (ArF)

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory argon fluoride (ArF)

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory argon fluoride (ArF) laser in Washington, D.C., June 1, 2020 waits to be tested with new thicker stainless foils. Researchers outfitted the ArF laser with new foils in hopes o... More

NRL telescope onboard ESA, NASA SOHO discovers 4000th comet

NRL telescope onboard ESA, NASA SOHO discovers 4000th comet

The 4,000th comet discovered by ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s SOHO observatory is seen here in an image from the spacecraft alongside SOHO’s 3,999th comet discovery. The two comets are relatively close... More

NRL Researchers Receive Navy’s Top Scientists and Engineers Award

NRL Researchers Receive Navy’s Top Scientists and Engineers Award

Three NRL scientists and engineers are awarded the prestigious Department of Navy Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award. The Award is presented annually to scientists and engineers... More

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Bio-inspired Adapted

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Bio-inspired Adapted

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Bio-inspired Adapted Techniques for Sensing, Actuation and Vocalization using Vibro-acoustics (BATSAVVi) team conducts experimental setup in the Laboratory for Autonomous Sy... More

NRL, Maryland Virtually Sign Partnership on Quantum Technologies

NRL, Maryland Virtually Sign Partnership on Quantum Technologies

WASHINGTON (Sep. 1, 2020) U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Commanding Officer, Capt. Ricardo Vigil (top left), and NRL Director of Research, Bruce Danly, Ph.D. (bottom left), and Gerald M. Borsuk, Ph.D., (bottom ... More

NRL researchers use advanced radar to hear moving targets

NRL researchers use advanced radar to hear moving targets

John Jakabosky, an electronics engineer from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Radar Division, tests a millimeter wave radar in Washington, D.C. The division developed a way to sense subtle vibrations and ch... More

Allan Bracker, Ph.D. (right), a U.S. Naval Research

Allan Bracker, Ph.D. (right), a U.S. Naval Research

Allan Bracker, Ph.D. (right), a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory research chemist, discusses quantum information research with Office of Naval Research Executive Director E. Anne Sandel, NRL Commanding Officer Ca... More

NRL, NCATS Scientists Develop Method to Safely Study COVID-19

NRL, NCATS Scientists Develop Method to Safely Study COVID-19

Image: Here we see the QD608-RBD binds ACE2 and induces endocytosis. In this figure, the top panel shows ACE2-GFP (yellow) expressing cells binding and internalizing QD608-RBD (magenta). In the bottom panel, an... More

Global Helium Abundance Measurements in Solar Corona

Global Helium Abundance Measurements in Solar Corona

A composite image of the Sun showing the hydrogen (left) and helium (center and right) in the low corona. The helium at depletion near the equatorial regions is evident.

Commander, US Navy Photogrpah

Commander, US Navy Photogrpah

Commander Public domain photograph of a navy ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Commander Jeffrey M. Webb

Commander Jeffrey M. Webb

Scientific Development Squadron (VXS) 1 Public domain photograph of a navy ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NRL Space Research Group to Validate SDA Satellite Interoperability

NRL Space Research Group to Validate SDA Satellite Interoperability

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is working with the Space Development Agency to build a hardware and software testbed for optical communications to link interoperability between satellites. SDA seeks to buil... More

Chaotic Systems, US Navy Photogrpah

Chaotic Systems, US Navy Photogrpah

The figure shows two chaotic systems starting in very different places in their orbits, but soon synchronize and do a "dance" much like synchronized swimmers. Despite the complicated orbits, they come to follow... More

CHESAPEAKE BEACH, Md. (October 15, 2020) – U.S. Naval

CHESAPEAKE BEACH, Md. (October 15, 2020) – U.S. Naval

CHESAPEAKE BEACH, Md. (October 15, 2020) – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) commanding officer Capt. Ricardo Vigil (right), welcomes Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment W. Jordan Gillis (left), A... More

COAMPS-TC Recognized as Leading Tropical Cyclone Prediction Model

COAMPS-TC Recognized as Leading Tropical Cyclone Prediction Model

The left image shows a 42 hour COAMPS-TC forecast of wind speed with Hurricane Delta nearing landfall along the Louisiana coast valid on Oct. 9. The right graph shows a comparison of the COAMPS-TC maximum wind ... More

Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin Selby, commander,

Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin Selby, commander,

Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin Selby, commander, Office of Naval Research, presides over the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Scientific Development Squadron (VXS) 1 change of command ceremony at Naval... More

An aerial view of sandbar features near Bay St. Louis,

An aerial view of sandbar features near Bay St. Louis,

An aerial view of sandbar features near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Researchers at NRL’s Ocean Sciences Division study coastal features to determine how they evolve and impact coastal infrastructure. The divisi... More

Braedon Kimball, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Naval

Braedon Kimball, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Naval

Braedon Kimball, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) intern and senior at Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering works on his neural network... More

SolOHI Imager Captures Rare Shot of Venus, Earth, Mars, and Uranus

SolOHI Imager Captures Rare Shot of Venus, Earth, Mars, and Uranus

The Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) camera on board ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft captured four Solar System planets. This screen shot from the video shows Venus, the brightest object in the video, roughly 3... More

NRL intern Samina Mondal developed a cybersecurity

NRL intern Samina Mondal developed a cybersecurity

NRL intern Samina Mondal developed a cybersecurity curriculum for kindergarten through high school seniors that’s going nationwide.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the Department of the Navy‘s corporate laboratory, and it reports to the Chief of Naval Research. As the corporate laboratory of the Navy, NRL is the principal in-hou... More

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