Office of Naval Research

A new challenge to automate one of the most tedious jobs in government

A lot of the data that government produces needs to be rated; safe to distribute, controlled but unclassified, or maybe secret and classified. That’s simplifying…

Acquisition

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (May 16, 2016) Lauren Burnette, from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific, explains the Battlespace Exploitation of Mixed Reality (BEMR) Lab demo to a visitor at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) exhibit during the 2016 Sea-Air-Space Exposition. BEMR is designed to showcase and demonstrate cutting edge low cost commercial mixed reality, virtual reality and augmented reality technologies and to provide a facility where warfighters, researchers, government, industry and academia can collaborate. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released)

This Naval Research innovation initiative suddenly seems super relevant

Navy

A cut lead pipe is pulled from a dig site for testing at a home in Royal Oak, Mich., on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Communities with lead pipes could see higher test results for lead in their tap water if a new method of water sampling goes into effect. The Detroit suburb of Royal Oak historically had low test results but it had to notify the public of a problem after the state mandated new sampling methods. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

IG: Water quality and mold may be issues when employees return to federal buildings

Federal Newscast

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Navy pursuing artificial intelligence to enable faster performance

Technology

Army investing in 5G switches that will save energy

Army

DOT Facebook

Number of suspended, debarred contractors falls for fourth year in a row

Federal Newscast

Kurt Yankaskas, program officer for noise induced hearing loss research in the Office of Naval Research

Custom earplugs making big difference for military service hearing loss

Federal Drive

Darren Soto, Collin C. Peterson, Tom O'Halleran, Mike Conaway, Al Lawson

Congressman takes aim at federal travel with series of bills

Federal Newscast

Naval research chief: AI upgrades similar to tech improvements pre-WWII

New wetsuits will give military divers ability to stay underwater longer

Federal Drive

Group shot of Anthony Smith speaking with students

HBCUs & the US Navy: All hands on deck

Fed Access

Office of Naval Research is DoD’s newest organization to set up innovation cell

ONR is following the trend of doing things just like Silicon Valley.

Defense

Steve Blank: Office of Naval Research goes lean on innovation

For the Navy, much of the innovation has come from the Office of Naval Research. Now the ONR is starting to use so-called lean innovation process.

Federal Drive

Navy reworking its S&T enterprise to onboard innovations at the pace of technology, not of bureaucracy

On DoD

The Navy is developing a new framework that will determine how it administers its technology development process. The goal, the chief of Naval research tells Federal News Radio, is to “impedance match” each stage of the acquisition system with the pace of technology.