We are the Navy's corporate laboratory.

In 1992, the Secretary of the Navy consolidated existing Navy Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Engineering facilities and Fleet Support facilities to form a corporate community. This community consists of a single corporate research laboratory (NRL) aligned with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and four warfare-oriented centers aligned by mission with the Systems Commands. The four centers are the Naval Air Warfare Center, the Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, the Naval Surface Warfare Center, and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.

As part of the consolidation, the Naval Oceanographic and Atmospheric Research Laboratory, with locations in Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, and Monterey, California, merged with NRL to become what is today, the Navy's corporate laboratory.

Mission

NRL conducts a broadly-based multidisciplinary program of scientific research and advanced technological development directed toward maritime applications of new and improved materials, techniques, equipment, systems, and ocean, atmospheric, and space sciences and related technologies. To meet this goal, NRL provides:

• primary in-house research for the physical, engineering, space, and environmental sciences;
• broadly based exploratory and advanced development programs in response to identified and anticipated Navy needs;
• broad multidisciplinary support to the Naval Warfare Centers;
• and space and space systems technology development and support.

Management

Heading the Laboratory with joint responsibilities are the Commanding Officer, Captain David M Schubert, USN, and the Director of Research, Dr. John Montgomery. Line authority passes from the Commanding Officer and the Director of Research to five Associate Directors of Research.

NRL's parent organization, ONR, coordinates, executes, and promotes Navy and Marine Corps science and technology programs through universities, government laboratories, and nonprofit and for-profit organizations. ONR provides technical advice to the Chief of Naval Operations and the Secretary of the Navy, and works with industry to improve technology manufacturing processes. ONR, located in Arlington, Virginia, maintains an ONR IFO Asia field office in Japan, and an ONR IFO Europe field office in England.