15 July 2021 HASC Chairman Talks Defense Innovation, Technological Leadership During Visit and Lecture at NPS MONTEREY, Calif. - Congressman Adam Smith, 17th Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), visited the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), July 13, to participate in the university’s Secretary of the Navy Guest Lecture (SGL) program. Smith discussed the critical role of creativity,...
08 July 2021 NPS Student Wins Prestigious National Award for High-Energy Laser Research “Lasers are the future of U.S. Navy shipboard defense.” A straightforward statement, but it was all the motivation U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Austin West needed to tackle a highly-challenging research topic for his master’s degree on Meteorology and Oceanography from the Naval Postgraduate School. A member...
08 July 2021 NPS Student Wins Prestigious National Award for High-Energy Laser Research “Lasers are the future of U.S. Navy shipboard defense.” A straightforward statement, but it was all the motivation U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Austin West needed to tackle a highly-challenging research topic for his master’s degree on Meteorology and Oceanography from the Naval Postgraduate School. ...
01 July 2021 NPS Oceanography Professor Wins National Science Foundation CAREER Program Grant MONTEREY, Calif. - Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Assistant Professor of Oceanography Dr. Mara Orescanin was recently awarded a five-year grant through the highly-competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER program. The grant will afford Orescanin with an opportunity to build on her...
29 June 2021 NPS Launches “Cyberspace and Military Operations” Course Open to all Students MONTEREY, Calif. - Understanding the role of cyberspace in military operations is not limited to just the cyber experts and practitioners, especially in this modern era of Great Power Competition. With this in mind, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is launching the all-new CY4000 “Cyberspace and...
23 June 2021 Game On! NPS’ Wargaming Week Ties Tactics, Strategy to Improve Defense Planning MONTEREY, Calif. - The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) just took on some of the nation’s most critical national security issues … through analytic wargaming...
18 June 2021 ONR Awards Two NPS Faculty with Youth Investigator Program Honors MONTEREY, Calif. - Two Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) professors recently earned the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, a highly competitive early-career award program for academic scientists and engineers that recognizes creative research with potential for a...
18 June 2021 DCNO for Warfighting Development Honors NPS Graduates During In-Person Ceremony MONTEREY, Calif. - For the first time in more than a year, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) celebrated a graduating class in person during a graduation ceremony for its Spring Quarter graduates, June 18, honoring and recognizing their remarkable achievements and resiliency. While these graduates...
14 June 2021 Aquatic Laboratory Adds Maritime Domain to JIFX Field Experiments MONTEREY, Calif. - The Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) program at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), held quarterly, recently added another warfighting domain to its range of venues used to conduct field experiments – water...
10 June 2021 NPS Team Earns Design Inspiration Award at HACKtheMACHINE Competition MONTEREY, Calif. - For this year’s HACKtheMACHINE (HtM) Navy digital competition, NavalX implemented “Heavy Metal,” an additive manufacturing challenge to use metallic 3D printing for fabricating shipboard parts to withstand specific environmental conditions...