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NRL Scientists Update Horizontal Wind Model with Eye Toward Next-Generation Space Weather Prediction Systems
July 10, 2015 — Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have updated the Horizontal Wind Model (HWM) that describes the climate of the upper atmospheric neutral winds... MORE

Dr. Justin McLay Honored as Defense Department’s ‘Laboratory Scientist of the Quarter’
July 8, 2015 — Dr. Justin McLay, research meteorologist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Meteorology Division, receives the esteemed Laboratory Scientist of the Quarter award honoring extraordinary service to the Department of Defense (DoD)... MORE

NRL Researchers First to Detect Spin Precession in Silicon Nanowires
June 23, 2015 — Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have reported the first observation of spin precession of spin currents flowing in a silicon nanowire (NW) transport channel, and determined spin lifetimes and corresponding spin diffusion lengths in these nanoscale spintronic devices... MORE

Researchers Discover Electron Pairing without Superconductivity
June 5, 2015 — A team of physicists from the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has discovered electron pairing in strontium titanate far above the superconducting transition temperature... MORE

Dr. Alexander Velikovich Honored by the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
June 1, 2015 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) plasma physicist, Dr. Alexander L. Velikovich, receives the 2015 IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award for advancing the theory of plasma shocks and hydrodynamics and magneto-hydrodynamics — enabling many-fold increases in both Z-pinch and laser-plasma experimental performance in radiation and fusion applications... MORE

NRL Patents Compact Orbital Debris Sensor
May 21, 2015 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Geospace Science and Technology Branch, has received a U.S. patent for the Optical Orbital Debris Spotter, a compact, low power, low cost, local space debris detection concept that can be integrated into larger satellite designs, or flown independently on-board nano-satellite platforms... MORE

NRL to Showcase Autonomous Systems at Fleet Week New York, May 20-26
May 19, 2015 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is taking some of its newest technologies to the Big Apple May 20-26 to participate in Fleet Week New York, that city's time-honored celebration of the sea services. On Pier 86, alongside the former aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, NRL will showcase the WANDA unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) and the Flimmer flying swimmer hybrid unmanned platform... MORE

NRL to Show Unmanned Systems, Helmets, and Satellite in Pentagon on May 14
May 12, 2015 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will demonstrate some of its groundbreaking technologies at the first ever Department of Defense (DoD) Lab Day, to be held at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. on May 14, 2015... MORE

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