The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) recently launched a new organization to expedite the Navy’s ability to access the university’s immense talent and resources in taking on its most complex warfighting issues...

Honoring the outstanding achievements of a new graduating class amidst many challenges, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) celebrated its latest class of new alumni with a virtual celebration of the Fall Quarter Graduation, Dec. 18. The newly-minted alumni rose above the evolving challenges of...

In an effort to explore current research related to key naval priorities, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Gilday visited the Naval Postgraduate School, Dec. 17, to assess the university’s latest research and experimentation regarding unmanned systems and space engineering, as well as gain...

The 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, stunned the world with a dazzling light show made up of a record-breaking 1,218 drones dancing in harmony. In the Department of Defense the display reinvigorated interest in counter-swarm tactics research, for drones and swarming tactics can have...

With undersea warfare remaining a key domain for U.S. defense strategies, the ability to map and navigate the depths of the world’s oceans becomes increasingly essential to maintaining an advantage. Responsive to the Navy’s emerging technological needs, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is...

On a trip to observe emerging technologies in practice, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Gary Thomas, accompanied by five other general officers, visited the Naval Postgraduate School Dec. 9, to engage directly with university faculty and students from key labs and institutes about the...

In an era of Great Power Competition, where those who can field autonomous capabilities fastest have a distinct advantage, researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School are exploring many fundamentals of autonomous systems, especially in the trust and confidence arena...

Key to the nation’s future advantage in autonomous systems, the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Consortium of Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) approved FY21 funding for novel research in robotics and autonomous systems through its Seed Research Program. This program...

As the recent Monterey county wildfires burned more than 150,000 acres, Naval Postgraduate School researchers took to the local skies in a specially-equipped DeHavilland Twin Otter UV-18A aircraft, basically a flying laboratory full of scientific instruments, to research the effects that smoke has...

A pilot program at the Naval Postgraduate School is giving fleet warfare tactics instructors – officers whose specialized training, operational experience and deep understanding of fleet tactics makes them tactical subject-matter experts – the academic theory behind those tactics to make them even...