Sergio Restaino

Welcome to the U.S. Research Laboratory LinkedIn page. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) conducts a broad spectrum of cutting-edge scientific research with immediate and long-range applications for the Department of the Navy, the Defense Department and the nation. Founded July 2, 1923, NRL is a scientific and engineering command dedicated to research that drives innovative advances for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. NRL is the Department of the Navy‘s corporate laboratory and reports to the Chief of Naval Research. As the Navy's corporate laboratory, NRL is the principal in-house component in the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) effort to meet its science and technology responsibilities. NRL has had a long and fruitful relationship with industry as a collaborator, contractor, and through Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs). NRL values this linkage and continues to develop it. NRL is an important link in the Navy Research, Development, and Acquisition (RD&A) chain. Through NRL, the Navy has direct ties with sources of fundamental ideas in industry and the academic community throughout the world and provides an effective coupling point to the R&D chain for ONR. NRL is a Navy Working Capital Fund activity, which means it is not a line-item in the U.S. Federal Budget. Instead of direct funding from Congress, all costs, including overhead, are redeemed through sponsor-funded research projects. For more information, please visit the official NRL website at http://www.nrl.navy.mil/. If you have a media query, please contact the NRL public affairs at 202-480-3746 or [email protected]. Please reference the link below to view the DoD Social Media User Agreement: https://www.dodig.mil/Disclaimers/Social-Media-User-Agreement/