ALT U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and L3 Harris engineers unstow the antenna pedestal at the Blossom Point Tracking Facility, 1Q CY 26, following transportation from the L3 Harris facility the system was integrated at in Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.S. Navy photo)

ALT Yi-Ming Wang, Sc.D., a senior solar physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, earned the 2026 recipient of the George Ellery Hale Prize, one of the highest honors in solar physics awarded by the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society. (U.S. Navy photo by U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

ALT U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists, from left, Yi-Ming Wang, Neil Sheeley, Ken Dere, Ana Nash and Ken Widing attend the Solar Wind Seven workshop in Goslar, Germany, in September 1991. The photo was taken by Don Michels, who coordinated international efforts for the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO), which launched aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on Dec. 2, 1995, and remains in operation. (Photo courtesy of Don Michels/U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

ALT A conceptual image of the Department of War Space Test Program \u2013 Houston 11 (STP-H11) payload, featuring Glowbug-2, which launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., May 15, 2026. The payload will be installed outside of the International Space Station\u2019s Columbus module. (Credit: U.S. Space Force and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

ALT \nNaval Research Laboratory personnel discuss how using optics to manipulate lasers can increase their effectiveness when used in directed-energy weapons during lab day at the Pentagon, May 6, 2026.

ALT Brian Bojko, Ph.D., a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) aerospace engineer within the Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics, has received the Irvin Glassman Early Career Investigator Award from the Eastern States Section of The Combustion Institute. Washington D.C. ( U.S. Navy Photo)