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The Fleet's First Radar Turns 75
December 13, 2013 — Note: This article was written by Claire Peachey, technical writer/editor in NRL's Technical Information Services. December 2013 marks the 75th anniversary of one of the Naval Research Laboratory's most important contributions to technology development and national defense: the Fleet's first shipboard radar... MORE

NRL-Developed Telescopes Await the Approaching Comet ISON
December 13, 2013 — When Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), a so-called Sungrazing comet, sweeps by the Sun on November 28, 2013, telescopes developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will be lined up for a spectacular front row view... MORE

Seeing Double: New System Makes the VLA Two Telescopes in One
December 11, 2013 — The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) will get a new system allowing it to continuously monitor the sky to study the Earth's ionosphere and detect short bursts of radio emission from astronomical objects... MORE

Navy Launches UAV from Submerged Submarine
December 5, 2013 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) with funding from SwampWorks at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Department of Defense Rapid Reaction Technology Office (DoD/RRTO) demonstrated the launch of an all-electric, fuel cell-powered, unmanned aerial system (UAS) from a submerged submarine... MORE

NRL Scientists Demonstrate Infrared Light Modulation With Graphene
December 5, 2013 — Research scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Electronics Science and Technology Division in collaboration with researchers at University at Buffalo-The State University of New York (SUNY) demonstrate the possibility for new optical devices using graphene for communications, imaging, and signal processing... MORE

Navy 'Mine-Hunter' AUV Sets Mission Endurance Record
November 20, 2013 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Acoustics Division, with Bluefin Robotics, executed a record setting 507 kilometer (315 mile), long-endurance autonomy research mission using its heavyweight-class mine countermeasures autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), Reliant... MORE

Dr. Andrew Schmitt Elected American Physical Society Fellow
November 13, 2013 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) research physicist, Dr. Andrew Schmitt, is elected Fellow by the American Physical Society (APS) for major contributions to the theory and simulation of laser plasma interactions... MORE

NRL Teams Up to Study Meteoroid Airburst Over Chelyabinsk, Russia to Improve Statistical Assessments of Meteoroid Impact Hazards
November 6, 2013 — Dr. Douglas Drob, a member of the Geospace Science and Technology Branch in the Naval Research Laboratory's Space Science Division, is part of an international consortium that is refining estimates of the yield and damage of the recent asteroid explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia... MORE

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