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Dr. Daniel Gunlycke Receives 2013 Peter Mark Memorial Award
December 19, 2013 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientist Dr. Daniel Gunlycke is the recipient on the 2013 Peter Mark Memorial Award, established in 1979 in memory of Dr. Peter Mark who served as Editor of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology from 1975 to 1979... MORE

NRL Uses New Airborne Radar to Search for Downed WWII Aircraft Wreckage
December 15, 2013 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will lead a team of scientists and engineers to fly a Multi-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (MB-SAR) to gather information to aid in the search and recovery of unaccounted for aircraft losses in Papua New Guinea (PNG)... MORE

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

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