The Navy sees a lot of advantages in having “swarmboats.” Developed by the Office of Naval Research, the Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing, or CARACaS, system can, f... Read more
Sci-fi authors and gamers have long imagined this day, and now it has come: The U.S. military is developing a laser weapon to shoot enemy drones out of the sky. The Navy has already develope... Read more
All those technologies may be possible thanks to a breakthrough at the Navy’s premier research lab Imagine: tiny sensors built into military combat gear to detect chemical or biological weap... Read more
“The operational unmanned aircraft soon to be developed have the opportunity to radically change the way presence and combat power are delivered from our aircraft carriers.” The... Read more
An event as historic as the Navy’s first catapult of a manned aircraft, which occurred in Nov. 1915 Northrop Grumman Corp. and the U.S. Navy made carrier-capable unmanned aircraft his... Read more
The Navy could save approximately 300 to 400 million dollars a year With its strong dependence on gas-turbine engines for propulsion, the U.S. Navy is always looking for ways to improve the... Read more
The potential payoff is the ability to produce JP-5 fuel stock at sea Refueling U.S. Navy vessels, at sea and underway, is a costly endeavor in terms of logistics, time, fiscal constraints a... Read more
A goal is to move to flight in a real forest by the program’s end The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is looking at birds’ perceptual and maneuvering abilities as inspiration for... Read more
A new online game aims to help the U.S. Navy improve its combat capability and energy security The year is 2022, and for the fourth time the Navy was the last contingent to arrive at... Read more
Imagine a Naval gun so powerful it can shoot a 5-inch projectile up to 220 miles This is what was then a record-breaking test of the Navy railgun project. In this 2008 demonstration,... Read more
Ships powered by algae and planes flying on weeds: that's part of the future the U.S. Navy hopes to bring to fruition. Read more