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Navy Takes It To Deepest Depths

Filed under Videos by jtozer on November 13, 2012 at 7:43 am {no comments}

Whether it’s performing rescue operations deep below the surface of the ocean, or performing important missions to keep the fleet ready, a day in the life of a Navy Diver is never boring. Navy Divers go to every depth imaginable to get the job done.

Watch this clip and tell me that diving suit doesn’t look a little like Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet. Am I right?

Video provided by the USNavy YouTube Channel

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Saturday Space Sight: Farewell, Neil

Filed under Photos by jtozer on September 29, 2012 at 7:13 am {no comments}

Members of the US Navy ceremonial guard hold an American flag over the cremains of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong during a burial at sea service aboard the USS Philippine Sea (CG 58), Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, in the Atlantic Ocean. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, died Saturday, Aug. 25. He was 82. (Photo by NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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Navy Ditching Steam Pipes For More Preferable Methods

Filed under Energy by jtozer on September 16, 2012 at 7:55 am {no comments}

The steam pipes that provided hot water to Naval Station Rota are becoming a thing of the past, just like the technology that made them necessary in the first place. Removing the piping will make the base energy efficient, environmentally friendly and reduce risk throughout the community.

Video provided by DMA Navy YouTube channel

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Universal Gateway

Filed under STEM, Technology, Uncategorized by jtozer on August 9, 2012 at 7:10 am {no comments}

Currently on any Navy destroyer, cruiser or carrier, there are two networks: one for combat systems and one for command and control, and between them they share some 30 interconnections. The Office of Naval Research developed the Universal Gateway which collapses those 30 connections into a single portal, rapidly automating data integration, enhancing information assurance and reducing manpower workloads and costs.

Additionally, the gateway can be put between any different networks, despite their classification levels, so information is available in a timely and effective way for warfighters.

Video provided by the Office of Naval Research YouTube Channel

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Robot Submarines!

Filed under Robots, Videos by jtozer on August 5, 2012 at 7:01 am {no comments}

The 15th Annual SPAWAR Robot Sub Competition recently got underway in San Diego. Well…underwater.

Though there are many reasons for competing – the main one that I can see being the fact that you get to build robot submarines – for the Navy this is something close to business as usual.

“This is just normal practice,” says Chief Petty Officer Fredrick Heimgartner. “This is just further development for better vehicles that’s being done by these universities. We use these vehicles for underwater searches. These are used in the civilian world quite often on anything that may require going down deeper than we can go without saturation diving.”

Check this out:

Video provided by DMA Navy YouTube Channel

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Release The Railgun

Filed under Featured, Videos by jtozer on July 28, 2012 at 7:53 am {no comments}

The Naval Research Laboratory‘s 5,000 square foot Materials Testing Facility (MTF) houses a “scaled-for-laboratory,” 6-meter Electromagnetic Railgun. A railgun consists of a power supply that drives current through a pair of conductors or rails to accelerate a projectile to high velocity.

MTF demonstrated, October 31, 2011, the one-thousandth successful firing of its Electromagnetic Railgun, reaching a materials testing milestone in the weapon’s technological development and future implementation aboard U.S. Navy warships.

Many of the 1000 shots have been designed to test different barrel designs and to quantify damage generated during high power launch. The innovations and understanding generated by NRL’s science and technology program have been fed directly into the Office of Naval Research’s Electromagnetic Railgun program and transferred to full-scale tests conducted at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Va.

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Video provided by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory YouTube Channel

Combating Corrosion

Filed under Featured, STEM by jtozer on June 22, 2012 at 7:23 am {no comments}

The Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award presented May 8, 2012, to Mr. Keith Lucas (left) by NRL Commanding Officer, CAPT. Paul Stewart, is the highest Department of the Navy Incentive Awards Program award that the Commanding Officer can confer upon a civilian. (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory - Jamie Hartman)

Corrosion is a very real and expensive problem for DOD and the Navy. Thanks to people like Keith Lucas, combating this problem is becoming easier.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory materials research engineer Keith Lucas, of the Chemistry Division, is the recipient of the 2012 Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award for comprehensive research in marine corrosion mitigation and effective cost-saving transfer to the U.S. Navy Fleet, increasing operational capabilities and useful life of both submarines and ships.

Re-preservation costs correlated to corrosion damage of U.S. Navy ships has been documented at nearly $3 billion annually, with shipboard tanks and voids being the leading contributor to this expense.

That’s a lot of money dedicated to keeping things shipshape and Bristol fashion.

“Early in his career Lucas and his co-inventors developed a paired reference electrode and instrumented sacrificial anode system and remote data logger that allows for remote assessment of the state of preservation of shipboard tanks and voids,” said Dr. Richard Colton, superintendent, NRL Chemistry Division. “This laid the foundation for the development of tank monitoring systems now being implemented in the surface combatant fleet.”

These systems are projected to provide an annual realized cost avoidance of nearly $10 million a year through the reduction of ballast tank opening, gas-freeing and manned entry for the purpose of tank coating inspections.

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Motivation STEMS From Learning

Filed under Education & Culture, STEM, Videos by jtozer on June 17, 2012 at 7:31 am {one comment}

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education is sailing full speed ahead nationally as Navy laboratories, including the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), participate in the program and are committed to the improvement of STEM over the next decade.

NMRC with the assistance of the Navy Medicine Support Command produced a STEM video that focuses on some of the interns and their mentors as they share experiences and benefits of being involved in STEM programs encouraged by the Navy.