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NRL Nike Laser Achieves Spot in Guinness World Records
July 24, 2014 — A set of experiments conducted on the Nike krypton fluoride (KrF) laser at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) nearly five years ago has, at long last, earned the coveted Guinness World Records title for achieving Highest Projectile Velocity of greater than 1,000 kilometers per second (km/s), a speed equivalent to two-and-a-quarter million miles per hour... MORE

NRL Reveals New Meteorological Insight into Mid-Level Clouds
July 21, 2014 — Research meteorologists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Meteorology Division (MMD) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, employing the Navy's Mid-Course Doppler Radar (MCR) at Cape Canaveral, were able to characterize mid-level, mixed-phase altocumulus clouds... MORE

NRL Simulates IED-Like Blast Waves Against Army Helmet Prototypes
July 17, 2014 — The U.S. Army's looking at helmet prototypes with optional parts to protect the face and jaw from various threats, including blast waves... MORE

Dr. Rita Manak Elected to Executive Board of Federal Laboratory Consortium
July 10, 2014 — Dr. Rita C. Manak, head of the Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL's) Technology Transfer Office, has been elected to the Executive Board of the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) as a Member-at-Large for a two-year term beginning October 2014. Congress established the Federal Laboratory Consortium under the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986... MORE

Dr. Robert Morris Honored with Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
July 8, 2014 — Dr. Robert E. Morris, a research chemist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, has been honored with the Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award... MORE

Researchers Create Quantum Dots with Single-Atom Precision
June 29, 2014 — A team of physicists from the Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (PDI) in Berlin, Germany, NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Atsugi, Japan, and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has used a scanning tunneling microscope to create quantum dots with identical, deterministic sizes... MORE

NRL's Dr. Jeffrey Long Selected as Inaugural DoD Laboratory Scientist of the Quarter
June 25, 2014 — Dr. Jeffrey W. Long, staff scientist in the Surface Chemistry Branch of the Chemistry Division, has been selected as the first recipient of the Department of Defense's Laboratory Scientist of the Quarter Award... MORE

Dr. Judith Lean Receives Double Honors in Geophysical Research Letters Top 40
June 19, 2014 — Dr. Judith Lean, the Senior Scientist for Sun-Earth System Research at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), has been honored by having two of her papers selected for publication in Geophysical Research Letters Top 40 edition... MORE

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