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Dr. Ruth H. Preller Receives Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award for High-Impact Achievements
June 16, 2023 — Dr. Ruth H. Preller, SES, former U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Ocean Sciences Division superintendent receives 2022 Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award for leading innovative oceanographic research requiring interdisciplinary approaches and collaborations with the larger national and international ocean science community. Preller... MORE

NRL Researchers Receive Navy’s Top Scientists and Engineers Award
June 13, 2023 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists and engineers will receive the prestigious Department of Navy (DON) Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award, June 15, during an awards ceremony hosted at the Pentagon. "All awardees should be very proud of their accomplishments," said Frederick J. Stefany, Assistant Secretary of... MORE

World-class technology provides Navy cyclone forecasting
June 1, 2023 — Today marks the start of Hurricane Season! NRL supports U.S. Navy military and humanitarian missions with global hurricane and typhoon information using the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS®) since 1997. The latest version of the system called COAMPS-TC® provides hi-resolution, five-day predictions of tropical cyclones... MORE

USNRL COAMPS-TC Tropical Cyclone Imaging

NRL Launched First Time-Based Navigation Satellite in 1967
May 31, 2023 — The launch of the TIMATION satellite on May 31, 1967 proved that a system using a passive ranging technique, combined with highly accurate atomic clocks, could provide the basis for a new and revolutionary navigation system, providing longitude, latitude, and altitude around the globe. Before the era of artificial satellites, the accuracy of... MORE

Commander Aaron Roberts Takes Command of NRL’s Scientific Development Squadron
May 19, 2023 — Commander Aaron Roberts relieved Commander Jeffrey Webb as commander of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Scientific Development Squadron (VXS-1), the Warlocks, May 18 during a change of command ceremony held at Naval Air Station Patuxent River.The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Commanding Officer Capt. Gregory Petrovic presented Webb with... MORE

Capt. Gregory Petrovic (right), U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) commanding officer, presents a Meritorious Service Medal to Cmdr. Jeffrey Webb (left), NRL’s Scientific Development Squadron (VXS) 1 outgoing commanding officer, during the VXS 1 change of command ceremony at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Patuxent River, Maryland, May 18, 2023. (U.S. Navy photo by Sarah Peterson)

NRL’s LASCO Telescope Collecting New Data on Asteroids and Comets
April 25, 2023 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists continue to break ground using the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) telescope. The telescope, which has been in operation for the past 27 years, is now collecting new information about the properties of asteroids and comets near the sun. LASCO is one of 15 instruments on the joint... MORE

LASCO observations of the asteroid Phaethon recorded in May 2022 showed clear signs of activity in the sodum-sensitive orange filter (left), but the object was entirely undetectable in LASCO’s dust-sensitive blue filter (right). (Credit: Q.Zhang/ESA/NASA)

NRL Recognized with FLC Innovation Award in Technology Transfer
March 31, 2023 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory was recognized with the Innovation in Technology Transfer Award at the 2023 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) National Meeting March 29. NRL established a leading-edge program using trade secret law to protect and license government intellectual property, demonstrating the capacity for significant benefits,... MORE

NRL Achieves 65-Year Milestone in Space Satellite Exploration
March 17, 2023 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory conducted the first American satellite program, named Project Vanguard, between 1955 and 1959, becoming the prototype for much of what developed as the U.S. space program. On March 17, 1958, the Vanguard I satellite was launched into Earth orbit. Vanguard I was the first solar-powered satellite, enabling it to... MORE

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