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Sigma XI Honors Dr. Yi-Ming Wang with Pure Science Award
September 7, 2011 — Dr. Yi-Ming Wang, an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory, has been honored with the 2011 Sigma Xi Award for Pure Science presented by NRL's Edison Chapter of Sigma Xi. Wang is recognized for fundamental contributions on the nature of solar magnetic fields, the solar wind, and the sunspot cycle... MORE

Dr. Debra Rolison Selected ACS Fellow
September 6, 2011 — Dr. Debra Rolison, a physical chemist in the Chemistry Division at the Naval Research Laboratory has been elevated to Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS)... MORE

NRL Robotic Loader System Achieves Composite Material Testing Milestone
September 5, 2011 — The Naval Research Laboratory robotic materials testing system, NRL66.3, has achieved, to date, the highest industrial rates of fully-automated production mode functionality known to NRL researchers, yielding a total of 216 specimen tests at a rate of 26 per hour under six-degrees of freedom (6-DoF - three translations and three rotations) multiaxiality conditions... MORE

Mixing Hot Spot in the Gulf of Mexico
August 29, 2011 — To improve oceanographers' understanding of the structure and dynamics of small-scale to sub-mesoscale mixing processes over rough, bathymetric features on the continental shelf, members of the Naval Research Laboratory's Oceanography Division are leading an extensive measurements program focused on the East Flower Garden Bank, one of three areas that make up the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico... MORE

Dr. Christopher Wilcox Named a Conference Chair for SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 2012
August 26, 2011 — Dr. Christopher Wilcox, an electrical engineer of the Remote Sensing Division at the Naval Research Laboratory, was recently named a conference chair of the International Society of Photo- Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Defense, Security, and Sensing 2012, Micro and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications IV session... MORE

Dr. John Sample Tapped to Attend Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
August 23, 2011 — Dr. John Sample has been identified as one of 85 engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 17th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium... MORE

NRL Set to Launch Experimental TacSat-4 Spacecraft
August 21, 2011 — The Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Satellite IV (TacSat-4) is scheduled to launch from the Alaska Aerospace Corporation's Kodiak Launch Complex, Tuesday, September 27, 2011, aboard an Orbital Sciences Corporation Minotaur-IV+ launch vehicle... MORE

NRL Flight-Tests Autonomous Multi-Target, Multi-User Tracking Capability
August 16, 2011 — The Naval Research Laboratory and the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) through the support of the Office of Naval Research (ONR), has shown an autonomous multi-sensor motion-tracking and interrogation system that reduces the workload for analysts by automatically finding moving objects, then presenting high-resolution images of those objects with no human input... MORE

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