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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

NRL’s Hybrid Tiger UAV Soars at Demonstration
April 14, 2021 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers recently demonstrated Hybrid Tiger, an electric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with multi-day endurance flight capability, at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland... MORE

IPOWER: Improving your energy-informed decisions when it matters most
March 23, 2021 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers have developed IPOWER, a software application that simulates energy use, storage, harvesting, and sharing in deployed Army and Marine Corps units to improve energy-informed decision-making... MORE

NRL Researchers Search for Critical Ocean Sciences Data with Lidar
March 19, 2021 — Quantifying the oceanic whitecaps and subsurface bubbles is important to the Navy’s oceanographic models to characterize the long-term evolution of the ocean environment... MORE

From Sea to Shining Sea: Combating the Pandemic One Mile at a Time
March 16, 2021 — When COVID-19 began to spread more than a year ago, few people could have imagined the drastic, far-reaching changes in our lives... MORE

Study Finds Localized Water Release in Upper Mesosphere Enables Polar Mesospheric Cloud Formation
March 15, 2021 — The rocket launch is part of a NASA and U.S. Naval Research Laboratory study showing water vapor, a common launch byproduct of space traffic, can actively cool the mesosphere and induce the formation of mesospheric clouds... MORE