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NRL Scientists, Researchers Win 2021 Dr. Delores Etter Award
July 28, 2021 — Presented annually in June, this prestigious Navy award recognizes technical superiority, innovation, technical merit, operational impact and applicability to Assistant Secretary of the Navy RD&A priorities... MORE

NRL Quantum Research Center Celebrates First Year of Research, Collaboration
July 15, 2021 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory celebrated its first anniversary earlier this year as the Navy’s designated Quantum Information Research Center... MORE

Jonathan Kwolek, a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory research physicist, shows an atom interferometer to Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin Selby Sept. 14, 2020, at Naval Research Labratory (NRL) facilities in Washington, D.C.

Petrovic Relieves Vigil as the 41st NRL Commander
June 25, 2021 — 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... MORE

Secrets Revealed in a Grain of Dust from the Moon Leads to Geologist’s Award
June 23, 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... MORE

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

NRL Scientist Celebrates Her Heritage and STEM Career

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