page_title: Office of Naval Research
section_title: ONR projects and programs
hierarchical_section_title: Office of Naval Research / Research / ONR projects and programs
caption_attribution_description: English: Central Command Area of Operation (Mar. 22, 2003) -- The guided missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) launches a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) toward Iraq during the initial stages of the Operation Iraqi Freedom. Milius is homeported in San Diego, Calif. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Thomas Lynaugh. (RELEASED)
context_page_description: The Office of Naval Research is an organization within the United States Department of the Navy responsible for the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Established by Congress in 1946, its mission is to plan, foster, and encourage scientific research to maintain future naval power and preserve national security. It carries this out through funding and collaboration with schools, universities, government laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit organizations, and overseeing the Naval Research Laboratory, the corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps. NRL conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development.
  ONR Headquarters is in the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia.
  ONR Global has offices overseas in Santiago, Sao Paulo, London, Prague, Singapore, and Tokyo.
context_section_description: BGM-109 Tomahawk
  Infantry Immersion Trainer
  Interactive Scenario Builder (Tactical Environmental Simulation)
  Philadelphia Experiment 1943
  High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
  HMMWV replacement process
  Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet
  SIMDIS
caption: Tomahawk TLAM missile launching
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