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Article: Office of Naval Research Courts Innovative Industries.
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- National Defense
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- October 1, 2001
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The Office of Naval Research wants to be a "one-stop shopping" destination for innovative companies that have state-of-the-art technology, said Navy Rear Adm. Jay Cohen, chief of ONR.
The business opportunities for those companies come in the form of "future naval capabilities, or FNCs," Cohen explained. The FNCs represent 12 priority areas that military commanders consider critical for the future of warfare, he said.
Cohen noted that the FNCs mark a drastic change from previous approaches to technological innovation. In the past, the Navy, together with the other services, used advanced technology demonstrations (ATDs). Those generally lasted for about ...