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NPS Team Makes Key Breakthrough on Path to Electric Aircraft Propulsion
As an institution renowned for innovation efforts grounded in education and research, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has often been called upon to tackle some of the most difficult technological ... Read More

NPS Advances Energy Resilience, Sustainability Through Microgrid Research
Over the past five years, a multidisciplinary team of Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) faculty has been supporting the development of an energy renaissance of sorts with the potential to redefine what ... Read More

Chief of Navy Reserve Encourages NPS Winter Quarter Graduates
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) honored its 2023 Winter Quarter graduates during a commencement ceremony held in King Hall Auditorium, March 24. NPS alumnus Vice Adm. John Mustin, Chief of Navy R... Read More

NPS Joins Forces with Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability to Address Sustainability, Climate and Energy Challenges
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is joining forces with the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability to explore and address the increasing challenges of global climate change, energy security and su... Read More

NPS Research in Extreme Weather Prediction Prepares for Future Computing Capabilities
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has received a major grant to explore a groundbreaking new way to model hurricanes and other extreme weather events.  The three-year grant from the Office of ... Read More

NPS Students Explore Potential Cost Efficiency of Battery-Powered Warships
When Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Financial Management students Lt. Cmdr. Evan Bloxham and Lts. Christopher Masters and Ashraful Haque, started their joint research project on the financial feasibi... Read More

NPS Researcher Mentors the Next Generation of Robotics Engineers
For six weeks, students and mentors from Santa Catalina School in Monterey meticulously crafted a robot to compete in the regional For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Rob... Read More

NPS Professor, Students Issued Provisional Patent for Liquid Air Energy Storage, Recovery System
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Department of Systems Engineering Assistant Professor Tony Pollman, along with university graduates U.S. Navy Lts. Nicholas Bailey and Christopher Girouard, were issued... Read More

Energy Academic Group’s NE3T Workshop Tackles DON Energy Problem With Education
The Energy Academic Group (EAG) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) hosted experts in multiple fields to explore opportunities to utilize education to advance the DON’s operational energy issues du... Read More

NPS Team Earns Design Inspiration Award at HACKtheMACHINE Competition
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 with... Read More

NPS Supports NATO Effort to Advance Energy Security
The NATO-Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) recently concluded its first energy security training program with support by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The week-long Critical Energy Infrast... Read More

Renowned Energy Authority Dr. Amory Lovins Presents Latest Defense Energy Seminar
Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Dr. Amory Lovins offered NPS students, faculty and staff his views on the rapidly changing environment of the energy industry, during the latest Defense Energy Seminar in ... Read More

NPS, Marine Corps Partnership Enhances Readiness Through Education
In 2009, then Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Conway declared energy a top priority. Mere weeks later, the U.S. Marine Corps’ Expeditionary Energy Office (E2O) was born and tasked with analy... Read More

Navy’s Energy Czar Examines NPS Education, Research Programs
Assistant Secretary of the Navy – Energy, Installations and Environment retired Vice Adm. Dennis McGinn traveled to the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Oct. 29, to see first hand the work that studen... Read More

NPS Workshop Helps Senior Leaders Apply Innovation Across the Service
“But we’ve always done it that way.” It’s a phrase that’s expected to be used in an organization with as much history as the United States Navy, but service leadership is dedicated to end that frame ... Read More

Power Play – NPS' Defense Energy Program Educates Tomorrow's Energy-Intelligent Officers
The numbers are staggering. The U.S. Department of Defense is the single largest consumer of petroleum fuels on the planet, burning up more than $17 billion in FY11 on … gas. While aircraft are by fa... Read More

NPS Lecture Series Focuses on Navy, Marine Corps Energy Independence
Late February brought two of the military’s leading energy officials to the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) campus for the Defense Energy Speakers’ Seminar series, part of the university’s comprehensi... Read More

NPS Energy Initiatives, Research Help Navy Blue Go Green
Navy blue is going green and a sea change in renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives at the Naval Postgraduate School is helping it get there.  As the Navy unveiled its first “green” ... Read More