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Adding Predictability to Fleet Communications During Solar Flares
June 15, 2021 — 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... MORE

NRL PRAM Mission: One Year and Still Going
June 10, 2021 — 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... MORE

GaN Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Enabling 1200V and Beyond Power Switches, Now Commercially Available for 200 mm Large Scale Manufacturing
June 7, 2021 — 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... MORE

Dr. Lavina Backman Celebrates Her Heritage and STEM Career
May 28, 2021 — For Lavina Backman, a materials engineer in the Spacecraft Engineering Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), her Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) heritage has served as the driving force for her desire to work within a diverse community... MORE

Researchers prepare to send fungi for a ride around the moon
May 28, 2021 — The fungus Aspergillus niger, along with its three mutant strains, are slated to rotate the moon on NASA’s Orion Space Capsule in 2021 so researchers can improve their understanding of the fungi’s natural and adapted defenses against radiation... MORE

Navy Forecasting Provides 45-day Advanced Environmental Predictions
May 11, 2021 — Navy ESPC V1 provides the Navy with the first ever high-resolution ensemble capability for the ocean and sea ice that delivers both ensemble mean forecasts as well as a measure of uncertainty up to 45 days out... MORE

NRL Designs Faster, More Energy Efficient Unpiloted Underwater Vehicles
May 6, 2021 — NRL Postdoctoral Research Associate from the Laboratories for Computational Physics & Fluid Dynamics designs faster and more energy efficient underwater vehicles using bioinspired shark skin-like surfaces... MORE

Peering through the clouds of Earth’s ‘Evil Twin’ surprises NRL sky watchers
April 15, 2021 — Venus images are nothing new, but a solar probe surprised the researchers by seeing through the planet’s clouds. NRL’s Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) took a stunning image of Earth’s celestial neighbor Venus last year that left researchers searching for answers... MORE

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