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New Quantum Capabilities for Naval Warfare Centers
January 10, 2023 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and all 14 Naval Warfare Centers signed a memorandum of understanding Dec. 2 with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Information Directorate to establish a conduit for exchange of technical expertise and the exploration of co-projects with a focus on creating useful quantum computing capabilities for... MORE

Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary
January 9, 2023 — The Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research, or LASR, and personnel from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory celebrated the facility’s 10 years of service to NRL, December 5-6. Signe Redfield, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research, kicked off the two day event opening with an in-depth presentation of the laboratory’s... MORE

DoN HBCU/MI Research Program selects Dr. Atoyebi as Inaugural Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NRL
December 16, 2022 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) chemist Olufolasade Atoyebi, Ph.D., is The Department of the Navy (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institution (HBCU/MI) Program’s inaugural Postdoctoral Research Fellow.This program enables recent postdoctoral science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) graduates from HBCU/MIs to... MORE

NRL CIRCE Satellites Delivered, Set for Historic 2022 UK Launch
November 17, 2022 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory oversaw the delivery and preparation for launch of its twin 6U CubeSat satellites on Oct. 15 at Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay in the United Kingdom (U.K.). CIRCE is a joint NRL-United Kingdom Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) experiment designed to measure the Earth’s ionosphere and particle radiation environment from a circular orbit at 555 km (344 miles) altitude in a lead/trail formation 300-500 km (186-310 miles) apart in the same orbit plane... MORE

NRL Engineers Ready Innovative Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) Payload for Launch
November 9, 2022 — Engineers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST) recently completed robotic payload component level testing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program... MORE

So Little Time: NRL Father and Son-in-Law Construct World’s Smallest Sundial
November 3, 2022 — Two scientists, Jeremy T. Robinson, a Materials Research Scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., and Woodruff T. Sullivan III, a former summer student at NRL in the 1960s, came to the consensus of crafting a nano sundial. Nine months later, the invented sundial apparatus was awarded a provisional patent “MicroDial- Miniaturized apparatus for solar time keeping” and won an international contest for the "world’s smallest sundial."... MORE

NRL researcher receives ASME Lifetime Achievement Award
September 7, 2022 — John Michopoulos, Ph.D., U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Computational Multiphysics Systems Laboratory head, received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Lifetime Achievement Award... MORE

NASA’s JWST Takes Its First-Ever Direct Image of Distant World
September 2, 2022 — Jordan Stone, Ph.D., an astrophysicist in NRL’s Remote Sensing Division is part of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s early release science team for direct observations of exoplanets that released the observations of a super-Jupiter exoplanet, HIP 65426 b, using JWST near-infrared camera and mid-infrared instrument... MORE

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