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Naval Research Lab Diver Earns Office of Naval Research 2025 Sailor of the Year
December 15, 2025
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) named U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Petty Officer 1st Class and Navy Diver Mitchell Apgar as the 2025 ONR Sailor of the Year (SOY). SOY honors an Enlisted Sailor in the Navy in the pay grade of E-6 who demonstrates sustained superior performance, leadership and professionalism. (U.S. Navy photo)
Naval Research Laboratory Engineer Receives Prestigious Department of the Navy Award
December 12, 2025
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Engineer Shannon McGarry, Ph.D., received the prestigious Department of the Navy 2025 G. Dennis White Early Career Human Systems Integration (HSI) Practitioner Award for contributions and unwavering commitment embodying the essential qualities critical to the advancement of the HSI discipline, ensuring the safety and effectiveness of systems delivered to our warfighters.
Naval Research Laboratory Scientists Uncover Electric Field Link That Triggers Magnetic Reconnection in Space
December 11, 2025
(Left)Emily Lichko, PhD, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Karles Fellowship, Gurudas Ganguli, PhD, NRL senior scientist, Ami M. DuBois, PhD, NRL research physicist), Chris Crabtree, PhD, NRL section head, stand in front of NRL’s Space Physics Simulation Chamber in Washington, D.C., Nov. 12, 2025. Lichko, Ganguli, DuBois and Crabtree worked together studying the electric field link that triggers magnetic reconnection in space that could help with predicting disruptive space weather events when they are about to occur. (U.S. Navy photo by Jonathan Steffen-Arnold)
NRL’s Satellite Operations Service is Ready for the Space Force Enterprise
December 9, 2025
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory recently developed the Transmit/Receive Enterprise (TREx) service with sponsorship from the Space Development Agency, Space Rapid Capabilities Office, and Space Systems Command. The TREx service provides secure access to various government and commercial antenna networks, which dramatically increases the amount of time satellites can be in contact with ground stations. This enables the satellite missions to operate more effectively by downlinking more data from space, and to recover faster if the satellite experiences an anomaly.
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Develops Anatomically Accurate Rat Brain Phantom for Traumatic Brain Injury Research
December 8, 2025
NRL scientist Margo Staruch, Ph.D., working with the University of Virginia Commonwealth, has developed the first anatomically accurate rat brain phantom capable of measuring traumatic brain injury (TBI) impacts in real time. The breakthrough model replicates the mechanical properties of brain tissue while embedding a piezoelectric sensor that converts impact forces directly into measurable electrical signals, offering unprecedented insight into how blast waves and impacts propagate through the brain. November 24, 2025 (U.S. Navy Photo by Sarah Peterson)
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Wins Best Paper Award at International Space Robotics Conference
December 5, 2025
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Senior Scientist for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Glen Henshaw, Ph.D., accepts the Best Paper Award in Orbital Robotics on behalf of the Autonomous Planning In-space Assembly Reinforcement-learning free-flyer (APIARY) team at the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo) in Sendai, Japan, on Dec. 3, 2025.
NRL’s LASCO Marks 30 Years Transforming Solar Science and Strengthening National Security
December 2, 2025
The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA’s joint Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite launch from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fl, Dec. 2, 1995. (U.S. Navy Photo)
Navy and the Nation: Five Everyday Technologies Born from Naval Research
November 25, 2025

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