Operationalizing Basic Research and Scholarship by the Office of Naval Research: A System-of-Systems Approach for the Military Acquisition and Application of Knowledge

boundary 2 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Carey D. Balaban ◽  
Kurt D. Yankaskas
Polar Record ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 13 (85) ◽  
pp. 421-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Britton

The Arctic Research Laboratory (ARL) is a year-round, continuing, basic research facility, funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), US Department of Navy, and located in lat 71° 21'N, long 156° 46'W, near Point Barrow, on the Arctic coast of Alaska. It was established in 1947 not, as could be reasonably expected, only to further investigations of immediate and practical use to the Navy, but also to support work of purely general scientific interest. Scientists from other countries were also invited to make use of its facilities. ARL represents a laudable co-operation between government support and private scientific enterprise.


Author(s):  
Khershed P. Cooper

The technology of direct digital additive manufacturing (D2AM) has received considerable attention in recent months. Several government agencies and commercial interests are planning to explore D2AM to find solutions to manufacturing problems. The attraction of D2AM is the benefit of rapidly producing without fixtures or tools or human intervention customized objects of complex geometry not possible by traditional methods. The interest in D2AM ranges from fabrication of critical, high value aerospace metallic components to fabrication of objects having an organic look or as nature would have intendedi. For D2AM to be commercially accepted, it must reliably and predictably make products. It must achieve consistency in reproducibility across relevant D2AM methods. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has launched a new basic research program, known as Cyber-enabled Manufacturing Systems (CeMS). The long-range goal of the program is to achieve the level of control over D2AM processes for industrial acceptance and wide-use of the technology. This program will develop measuring, sensing and control models and algorithms for D2AM by harnessing principles underpinning cyber-physical systems (CPS) and fundamentals of physical processes. This paper describes the challenges facing D2AM and the CeMS program goals to meet them.


1976 ◽  
Vol 20 (20) ◽  
pp. 462-462
Author(s):  
Michael E. McCauley

The office of Naval Research/Human Factors Research (ONR/HFR) Motion Generator was designed with three degrees of freedom (heave, pitch, and roll) to simulate the motion of an air-sea craft in varying ocean conditions through Sea State 5. Recent upgrading of the device has provided the capability for simulating the motion of advanced design sea craft as well as certain aspects of vertical motion common to land, sea, and air vehicles. Since 1968, the simulator has been used for investigation of the following topics: (1) basic research to provide equations for the prediction of motion sickness incidence based on parameters of vertical linear oscillation, (2) crew performance during simulated motion of two types of proposed naval vessels, and (3) evaluation of the efficacy of antimotion sickness medications in alleviating the symptoms of motion sickness. This simulator provides the opportunity for future research on the effects of motion on physiological and psychological processes as well as task performance.


Physics Today ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 17-19
Author(s):  
Dwight E. Gray

Author(s):  
Benjamin A. Clegg ◽  
Jeffrey G. Morrison ◽  
Noelle L. Brown ◽  
Karen M. Feigh ◽  
Harvey S. Smallman ◽  
...  

The emergence of Human Factors as a discipline is often traced to pioneering efforts tackling military issues in World War II. Rapid technological advances raised fundamental questions around human performance. Approaches, solutions, and advances in the science soon spread outside of their original military contexts. Current and emerging technologies, and also new challenges for human-machine systems, means Human Factors remains central to military effectiveness, while producing outcomes with broader potential impact. This panel discussion will examine an array of contributions to the Office of Naval Research program on Command Decision Making. The session will explore methods to understand and enhance decision making through: (1) Addressing gaps that demand further foundational knowledge to produce empirical generalizations, models, and theories as basis for future guidelines, principles, specifications, and doctrine for Navy Command Decision Making; (2) Applications of existing knowledge within specific contexts to address current /future real world Navy decision making challenges.


2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-54
Author(s):  
Isabel Càrdenas-Navia

I am here to talk about the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and our funding opportunities. I will start with introductory slides because I'm not sure how familiar this audience is with our organization. ONR supports science and technology for the Navy, and you might think “How do I fit into this?” We have a two-billion-dollar portfolio for research. Some of this is sort of off-the-shelf, early stuff, the quick reaction. Then we have acquisition enablers. These two categories are short-term technologies. I'm going to talk about discovery and invention, which is the long-term basic research we support. It's about 40% of our portfolio or $900 million. The timeframe is basic research, and it covers our national naval responsibilities, and education and outreach, which is about 40% of our research, $900,000. In discovery and invention, we do research in naval-relevant areas. So our mission is very different from NSF and NIH, which are more broadly scientific-based.


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