The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory celebrated its first anniversary earlier this year as the Navy’s designated Quantum Information Research Center.

Capt. Gregory Petrovic relieved Capt. Ricardo Vigil and assumed command as the 41st commanding officer of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory during a ceremony June 25, 2021.

Lunar samples of dust particles and rock have been brought back to Earth for more than half a century, ever since Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the Moon in 1969. NRL geologist Kate Burgess used samples from the Apollo 17 mission during her microscopic research of what’s inside tiny grains of moon dust.

Solar flares, from the Navy's perspective, impact operations due to disturbances in the ionosphere, changing the propagation of radio signals in the upper atmosphere.

It has been one year since U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers launched PRAM, the Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module, aboard the Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on May 17, 2020.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s gallium nitride (GaN) wafers, also called large-area engineered substrates, can enable GaN to potentially be a displacement technology for silicon semiconductors used in microelectronics, particularly in power electronics.