The lift-off of TacSat-4 from Kodiak Alaska marks the 100th satellite launch for the NRL Center for Space Technology and the beginning of a three-year experimental mission tasked with improving battlefield communications in the high latitudes.
Edison plans world's greatest research lab. (Click to see the NRL video.)
The MZ-3A is a lighter-than-air (LTA) airship transferred, in 2010, to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Military Support Division Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1). Built by American Blimp Corporation, the MZ-3A is the first Navy owned airship in operation since 1962.
The Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence develops software for cognitive robotics and human interaction using robots such as Octavia.
Located high above Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, the NRL - Chesapeake Bay Detachment (CBD) tests radar antenna properties, radar remote sensing concepts, use of radar to sensor ocean waves, and laser propagation.
High Expansion (HiEx) foam protects large volume mission-critical spaces. In shipboard fire fighting applications, HiEx foam expands to fill up the volume of flammable spaces in minutes, flowing around obstructions that previously mandated manual firefighting.
Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) is a fire-started or augmented thunderstorm that, in its most extreme manifestation, injects huge abundances of smoke and other biomass burning emissions into the lower stratosphere — a dynamic being researched by meteorologist at the NRL Middle Atmosphere Physics Section.