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Scale model of Hamburg, Germany, being used for a large wind tunnel experiment.

The 20 feet by 15 feet, 1.5-foot thick single piece of granite is within +/- 0.0018 inches flat across its surface. Quarried from the Raymond Granite Quarry, Clovis, Calif., the 450 cubic-foot, 37.5 ton GOT slab is thought to be the largest, single slab, precision granite table in the world.

Dr. Rhonda Stroud, head of the nanoscale materials section at the NRL briefs Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John P. Holdren, and Chief of Naval Research, Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, during a tour of NRL.

NRL's Electromagnetic Railgun completes its one-thousandth successful firing.

A 50-foot radio telescope dish atop NRL's main administration building is the unofficial symbol of the Laboratory.

Naval Research Laboratory OpensLaboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (Photo: Jamie Hartman, Naval Research Laboratory)

NRL's CT-Analyst Operational Demo Delivered to Hamburg Germany Fire Brigade (Photo: University of Hamburg)

NRL Brings the Inertia of Space to Robotics Research (Photo: Naval Research Laboratory)

White House S&T Advisor the Honorable Dr. John Holdren Tours Naval Research Laboratory (Photo: John Williams, Office of Naval Research)

Navy's Electromagnetic Railgun Reaches Testing Milestone (Photo: Naval Research Laboratory)

Learn about the Naval Research Laboratory's world-class science and technology. (Photo: Naval Research Laboratory)

About NRL

NRL is the corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps and conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development. NRL has served the Navy and the nation for over 85 years and continues to meet the complex technological challenges of today's world.

September 24, 2012

Fueling the Fleet, Navy Looks to the Seas

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are developing a process to extract carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen gas from seawater, subsequently converting the gases into jet fuel by a gas-to-liquids process.

September 18, 2012

NRL Demonstrates High Durability of Nanotube Transistors to the Harsh Space Environment

Investigating the effects of prolonged exposure to radiation that exists in the charged particle belts that encircle Earth, NRL researchers demonstrate the ability of single walled carbon nanotube transistors to survive harsh radiation environments.

September 10, 2012

NRL Researchers Use Unmanned Aircraft to Probe Hurricane Outflow Jets

Observing hurricanes from a unique vantage point, the Global Hawk is an ideal platform to probe storms from the surface to the outflow layer providing an unprecedented opportunity to unravel some of the mysteries underlying hurricane intensity change.

August 30, 2012

NRL Change of Command: Captain Anthony Ferrari relieves Captain Paul C. Stewart

Captain Anthony Ferrari, USN, assumed the duties NRL's thirty-seventh Commanding Officer during a formal Change of Command ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, August 30, 2012.

August 29, 2012

TacSat-4 Participates in Navy Fleet Experiment Trident Warrior

Sponsored by Navy Warfare Development Command, the three-week Trident Warrior Experiment included NRL TacSat-4 SATCOM testing and training aboard the U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship, USS Essex (LHD 2), the U.S. Navy submarine USS Olympia (SSN 717) and at the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity at Camp Pendleton.

August 28, 2012

NRL Researchers Observe Bright Arctic Clouds Formed by Exhaust from the Final Space Shuttle Launch

NRL scientist Dr. Michael Stevens is leading an international consortium of scientists in tracking the rapid transport of the exhaust plume from the final launch of the space shuttle in July 2011.