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Naval Research Physicist Earns Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award
July 30, 2025 — Scott Browning with U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Signature Technology Office earned the Department of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award (DCSA) on July 23, 2025, for his service from 1991 through 2024... MORE

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Commanding Officer Capt. Randy Cruz presents Scott Browning from NRL’s Signature Technology Office with the Department of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award (DCSA), July 23, 2025, for his service as the technical director and senior advisor from 1991 through 2024. The DCSA is the highest Department of the Navy award for a civilian employee.

Naval Research Interns Explore Naval Careers During ‘Pathways to Discovery’ Panel
July 30, 2025 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) hosted its first annual Pathways to Discovery career panel and networking event July 17, inviting summer interns from the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP), Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program (SEAP), and other Department of the Navy programs to explore career possibilities in science, engineering, and national defense... MORE

The moderator and panelists gather following the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) “Pathways to Discovery” panel, July 17, 2025. From left: Pania Newell, Ph.D., moderator and associate professor at the University of Utah; Peter Matic, Ph.D., NRL associate director of research; Andy Nicholas, head of NRL’s Sensor Development and Applications Section; Maggie Stevens, Ph.D., NRL research scientist; and Harry Cole, a returning Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) intern. The event offered career insights to student interns from across NRL’s summer programs.

Naval Research Hydrogen Tech Goes Tactical
July 24, 2025 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has prototyped a Hydrogen Small Unit Power (H-SUP) system to reduce detectability and improve readiness of Marine Corps in expeditionary warfare operations... MORE

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Principal Investigator Kevin Cronin (left) and U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Energy Office Science and Technology Analyst Capt. Joshua Ashley (right) train Marines with Combat Logistics Company 33 on the warfighting utility of hydrogen fuel cell systems during an exercise at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Hawaii, March 4, 2024.

Naval Research Laboratory Researcher Honored for Groundbreaking Arctic Cyclone Study
July 23, 2025 — Daniel Lloveras, a postdoctoral researcher at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), was recognized with the Very Early Career Presentation Award at an American Meteorological Society (AMS) conference on June 23 for his innovative research on Arctic polar lows, which are powerful weather systems... MORE

Daniel Lloveras (second from left), a postdoctoral research associate in the Marine Meteorology Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, poses with fellow award recipients after receiving the Early Career Outstanding Presentation Award at the American Meteorological Society’s 21st Conference on Mesoscale Processes, June 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho.

NRL Discovers Inverse Relationship Between Solar Corona Brightness and CME Velocity
July 15, 2025 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) detailed an inverse relationship between the brightness of the solar corona and the velocity of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in a scientific paper published in The Astrophysical Journal on July 3... MORE

An image sequence from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) C2 coronagraph observing a fast coronal mass ejection, as mentioned in the study, on September 10, 2017. The Sun is at the center of the visual, hidden by a solid disk that blocks blinding sunlight and enables observations of the much fainter solar corona.

Naval Research Laboratory Scientists Recognized by DARPA for Record-Breaking Optical Power Beaming Demonstration
July 7, 2025 — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recognized NRL during their POWER Phase 2 Industry Day on May 29, for contributions to the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program, which shattered existing records for optical power beaming over distance... MORE

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Two NRL Engineers Receive Dr. Delores M. Etter Awards
June 27, 2025 — Two NRL engineers received the prestigious Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award on June 25 during a live-streamed ceremony broadcast from Naval Research and Development Establishment sites of the award recipients... MORE

Launch Your STEM Career: A Unique Gateway into Scientific Research with Naval Research Laboratory Internships
June 24, 2025 — Each summer, students from across the country begin internships with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), gaining hands-on experience in science and technology. These internships take place at various NRL locations, including sites along the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, and Monterey Bay in California. Each hoping for career growth that will take them to new horizons... MORE

Miina Anvelt stands in front of the NRL Twin Otter aircraft assigned to the VXS-1 squadron at Naval Air Station Patuxent River during her SEAP internship on July, 19 2022.

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