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NRL Commissions Small Railgun
April 14, 2014 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) through support of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) commissioned the new small bore (1-inch in diameter) railgun (SRG) at the laboratory's Materials Testing Facility... MORE

Scale Model WWII Craft Takes Flight With Fuel From the Sea Concept
April 7, 2014 — Navy researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Materials Science and Technology Division, demonstrate proof-of-concept of novel NRL technologies developed for the recovery of carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2) from seawater and conversion to a liquid hydrocarbon fuel... MORE

NRL to Launch SSULI on April 3rd; Will Measure Ionosphere Electron Density
March 31, 2014 — On April 3rd, 2014, a satellite carrying a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) space weather instrument will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base... MORE

NRL's LASR Building Receives Design Award
March 25, 2014 — The design firm Wiley Wilson, of Lynchburg, Virginia has received the Grand Award from the American Council of Engineering Excellence Awards competition for the design of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL's), Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) building... MORE

NRL Autonomy Lab Hosts Shipboard Fire Robotics Consortium
March 24, 2014 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR), partner in the Navy's Damage Control for the 21st Century project (DC-21), recently hosted robotics research teams from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) to demonstrate the most current developments of advanced autonomous systems to assist in discovery, control, and damage control of incipient fires... MORE

NRL Begins Project to Understand Ocean Circulation in Bay of Bengal
March 21, 2014 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Oceanography Division scientists deployed moorings in the international waters of the Bay of Bengal during December 2013 from the R/V Roger Revelle, a research vessel operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS)... MORE

NRL Researchers Detect Water Around a Hot Jupiter
March 19, 2014 — Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of a research team that has detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system... MORE

Dr. Thomas A. Mehlhorn Named 2014 IEEE Fellow
March 18, 2014 — The IEEE Board of Directors has announced that Dr. Thomas A. Mehlhorn, superintendent of the Plasma Physics Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), has been named a Fellow of the IEEE for leadership in the understanding of intense, pulsed electron and ion beams... MORE

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