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...

U.S. Ambassador Harry Harris, lauded leader and diplomat, who became the first Asian American to hold four-star rank in the U.S. Navy and is the former commander of U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), spoke virtually to students, staff and faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) about the...

The Naval Postgraduate School has again partnered with the robotics research and development company Open Robotics to host a virtual competition on autonomy with the 2020 Virtual Ocean Robotics Challenge...

The Naval Postgraduate School has selected lauded scholar Dr. Scott Gartner to become its 16th provost and academic dean, the university announced Nov. 16...

Lt. Kristen Ainslie, an undersea warfare student at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), is on the home stretch of her challenging thesis in physical oceanography. Her research, critical to continue the advancement of the Navy’s understanding of the unique Arctic environment, explores the dynamics...