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Forging Partnerships: NRL Hosts First Innovation Day for Industry
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Forging Partnerships: NRL Hosts First Innovation Day for Industry
By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| May 17, 2024
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) hosted its first Innovation Day for Industry, May 16, to inform industry and assess interest in a focused set of emerging technologies that are potentially ready for collaboration with industry partners, and advance system-level technologies at NRL-DC headquarters.
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NRL Selected to Lead Critical Science Mission on Wildfires and Smoke
By Mary Hamisevicz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| May 9, 2024
NLR meteorologist, David A. Peterson, Ph.D., has been selected by NASA to lead the PYRocumulonimbus (pyroCb) EXperiment (PYREX) -- a large airborne-based field campaign aimed at studying the role that pyroCb activity plays in the warming climate system and understanding its physical links to extreme wildfire behavior.
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NRL Releases 25 Technologies for the Next 25 Years, Ensuring Future Maritime Dominance
By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| April 12, 2024
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) releases 25 Technologies for the Next 25 Years publication featuring a collection of science and engineering concepts under development to meet critical national security needs over the next quarter century.
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NRL Recognizes Researchers During Centennial Innovation Awards Ceremony For Major Impacts On National Security
By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| April 9, 2024
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) recognized Centennial Innovation awardees during a ceremony on Apr. 8 held at the Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., for major impacts on national security.
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NRL Charters Navy’s Quantum Inertial Navigation Path To Reduce Drift
By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| April 5, 2024
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers have developed a patent-pending Continuous 3D-Cooled Atom Beam Interferometer derived from a patented cold and continuous beam of atoms to explore atom-interferometry-based inertial measurement systems as a path to reduce drift in Naval navigation systems.
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NRL To Showcase Cross-Domain Technology at Sea-Air-Space 2024
By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| April 4, 2024
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will showcase redefining defense technologies at the Sea-Air-Space Conference and Exposition in booth 310, held at the Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., Apr. 8-10.
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NRL to highlight revolutionary technologies at Space Symposium 2024
By Emily Winget, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| April 2, 2024
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will highlight cutting-edge space-related programs and technologies during the 39th Space Symposium in exhibit booth #625 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs April 8-11, 2024.
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Dr. Arati Dasgupta Honored by the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society
By Daniel Parry, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| April 2, 2024
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) plasma physicist, Arati Dasgupta, Ph.D., head, Radiation Hydrodynamics Branch, Plasma Physics Division, receives the 2024 IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Committee (PSAC) Award for her fundamental contributions to, and leadership of, high energy density plasma, atomic, and radiation physics, fusion applications, and service to the plasma science community.
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WISPR Team Images Turbulence within Solar Transients for the First Time
By Mary Hamisevicz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| March 27, 2024
The Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) Science Team, led by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), captured the development of turbulence as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) interacted with the ambient solar wind in the circumsolar space.
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NRL’s Sungrazer Project Discovers 5000th Comet
By Mary Hamisevicz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
| March 27, 2024
On March 25, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Sungrazer Project reached a remarkable milestone – the discovery of its 5,000th comet in data from the joint European Space Agency – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (ESA-NASA) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
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