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Major Breakthrough in Carbon Material Could Have Broad DOD Applications
Sep 19, 2014
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor Claudia C. Luhrs, with collaborator Department of Physics Research Professor Jonathan Phillips an... Read More

NPS Researchers Challenge Citizen Scientists to "Change the Game”
Sep 9, 2014
Despite its lengthy title and awkward acronym, the Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet, or MMOWGLI, has garnered increased attention in recent day as policy makers have leverage... Read More

Defense Analysis Professor Champions Design Thinking’s Problem-Solving Potential
Aug 19, 2014
At a recent commencement address, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Department of Defense Analysis (DA) Professor and Chair Dr. John Arquilla discussed the “big, game-changing ideas” percolating at NPS,... Read More

Latest CEE Workshop Challenges Navy Leaders to Innovate at All Levels
Mar 12, 2014
The Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Center for Executive Education (CEE) recently welcomed senior Department of Defense leaders to NPS to participate in a five-day Leading Innovation: Energy Applica... Read More

NPS Executive Education Professor Publishes Book on Innovation
Mar 12, 2014
“How do we find a way to organize our efforts, so that we can get a wounded soldier to a field hospital one minute faster?” Dr. Neal Thornberry is the program manager and Faculty Director of the Lead... Read More

NPS Systems Engineering Program Puts Product Development in the Spotlight
Jan 31, 2014
The Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Joint Executive Systems Engineering Management - Product Development 21st Century (SEM-PD21) program is working to bring together senior engineering and technical... Read More

Southcom Turns to NPS to Evaluate CubeSats for Communications Support
Jan 22, 2014
The U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) has embarked on an ambitious international CubeSat program, and turned to the Naval Postgraduate School for help. The NPS Distributed Information Systems and Expe... Read More

NPS, Marine Corps Partner on Energy and Conservation Research
Nov 25, 2013
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and the U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Energy Office (E2O) have partnered under an initiative to conduct student-led research that will address some of the Marine ... Read More

Researchers Fill Operational Needs With Innovation in Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Nov 6, 2013
From his unassuming office nestled between robotics and space systems labs at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Research Associate Professor Kevin Jones, along with Professor Isaac Kaminer and Rese... Read More

NPS, NASA Collaborate on Human-Robot Interaction in Extreme Environments
Nov 1, 2013
Students and faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) are working with NASA scientists 60 feet beneath the ocean’s surface at Florida International University’s Aquarius Habitat on a novel effor... Read More

NPS Workshop Launches a Continuum of Education, Analysis on the Navy’s Most Challenging Issues
Oct 21, 2013
Students at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) recently participated in a warfare innovation workshop designed to challenge students to analyze a series of scenarios wherein U.S. forces are drawn int... Read More

NPS Establishes Central Portal for Combating Terrorism Information Exchange
Sep 24, 2013
Each day, around the world, the Combating Terrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP) provides U.S. and international officers with innovative training and education in combating terrorism. Tens of thousands ... Read More

NPS Class Inspires Officer to Combat Military Suicide With Smartphone App
Sep 10, 2013
The U.S. military suffered more casualties from suicide than from combat last year. A staggering 349 service members took their own lives in 2012 according to a Pentagon report on active-duty suicides... Read More

Faculty-Developed Weather Prediction Model One Step Closer to Multi-Agency Adoption
Aug 27, 2013
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Professor of Applied Mathematics Dr. Frank Giraldo has been working for several years on a complex weather prediction tool, the Nonhydrostatic Unified Model of the Atmo... Read More

NPS Leads Collaborative Effort to Inspire Innovation Across Government, Beyond
Aug 21, 2013
The Naval Postgraduate School’s Joint Interagency Field Exploration (JIFX) program brought together more than 400 researchers, scientists, first responders and military personnel, Aug. 5-8, to conduct... Read More

Turkish Officer Awarded Prestigious NPS Ops Research Award
Jun 14, 2013
Turkish Air Force Officer 1st Lt. Begum Ozcan has been selected as the Naval Postgraduate School’s spring quarter recipient of the prestigious MORS/Tisdale Award for her thesis, “Effectiveness of Unma... Read More

NPS Workshop Helps Senior Leaders Apply Innovation Across the Service
May 17, 2013
“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

NPS Enlisted Special Forces Student Inspires Intelligence Innovation
Mar 6, 2013
A CH-47 Chinook helicopter lands at a remote compound in Southern Afghanistan. Dust flies, Soldiers dismount, the tension is almost palpable. Before the team looms a series of seemingly medieval walle... Read More

NPS Alumnus Turns Off Duty Time Into Profitable Business
Feb 5, 2013
Marines are supposed to relax and blow off steam when they get home from a combat tour. U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Robert Dyer of Tacoma, Wash., apparently didn’t get the memo – he started a company. Dye... Read More

University USW Curriculum Leads Resurgence in Undersea Warfare Dominance
Oct 31, 2012
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” These iconic words, presented to rousing cheers by then President Ronald Reagan on June 12, 1987 in West Berlin, were the defining moment of a generation. With th... Read More

NPS Injects New Life Into Advanced Materials Research
Sep 24, 2012
Scientists in lab coats build tunnels through quantum space. They connect microscopic tubes and build structures that sense defects, carry information and deliver energy one molecule at a time. As fan... Read More

CORE Lab’s Lighthouse Project Casts a Bright Light on IED Networks
Apr 30, 2012
When improvised explosive devices (IEDs) talk, they have a lot to say. Each wire and detonator helps tell a story of who created the device. Their locations across a battlespace help create a visual m... Read More

DKL Reference Librarian Recognized as Mover and Shaker by “Library Journal”
Apr 4, 2012
Andrea Davis, a reference and instruction librarian at NPS’ Dudley Knox Library, was named a 2012 “Mover and Shaker” by prominent library magazine, “Library Journal.” Annually, the respected publicati... Read More

NPS CubeSat Prepares to See Space By Way of New Payload Platform
Mar 23, 2012
In many ways, it will be a monumental launch for the Space Systems Academic Group (SSAG) at NPS. After a recent successful test run, two exciting NPS projects are scheduled to head to space in August ... Read More

NPS, DLIFLC Honored with CENIC’s Innovations in Networking Award
Mar 23, 2012
The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) presented the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) with the 2012 Inno... Read More

Dudley Knox Library Launches Digital Archive of ‘Everything NPS’
Mar 19, 2012
The Naval Postgraduate School’s Dudley Knox Library has announced the launch of an extensive online institutional archive. The electronic repository, known as Calhoun, was created to bring NPS' schola... Read More

Marine Corps Student Analyzes Cost Savings of Rechargeable Batteries Over Disposables
Jan 6, 2012
About a year ago, a Marine Corps Capt. walked into the office of Naval Postgraduate School Operations Research Professor Daniel Nussbaum claiming he had a great idea for his thesis. Capt. Darrell H. B... Read More

MOVES Software Package Helps LSOs Track Pilot Performance
Sep 12, 2011
Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) Institute have developed a prototype system to support Landing Signal Officers (LSOs), the men and ... Read More

Systems Engineering DL Students Look at Innovation From Industry’s Perspective
Aug 26, 2011
Students in the Joint Executive Systems Engineering Management - Product Development Leadership Education for the 21st Century (SEM-PD21) Degree Program, an interdisciplinary leadership program design... Read More

Professor’s New Book Examines Wartime Adaptation and Innovation
Apr 26, 2011
As the saying goes, ‘Necessity is the mother of invention.’ According to NPS Associate Professor James Russell, that was certainly the case for U.S. troops in Iraq at the height of the conflict. Russe... Read More

University Professor Explores New Methods of IED Detection
Apr 21, 2011
Improvised explosive devices (IED), discreetly hidden on roadsides, planted in cars or carried by persons, rein terror with U.S. and coalition forces with widespread destruction on battlefields around... Read More

NPS Field Experimentation Advances Networked Medicine
Jan 18, 2011
With today’s advances in battlefield medicine, the survivability rate of wounded soldiers in combat has increased to favorable levels. With advanced personal protective equipment, innovative one-hande... Read More

NPS Teams Up with NASA, Industry to Test Groundbreaking Maneuvers on Spacecraft in Orbit
Dec 10, 2010
Dazzling sun spots and stunning solar flares were just another day in the life of the Transitional Regional and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft for the past 12 years. Designed to record solar acti... Read More

Short Course Highlights Latest, Greatest Technologies
May 26, 2010
As an institution invested in keeping up with the latest technologies, NPS is home to experienced students, faculty and researchers in fields across the board. This year, the 27th Annual Technology Re... Read More

NPS Launches Online Human Systems Integration Program
Aug 26, 2009
The four courses in the one-year, all-online interdisciplinary program are designed to educate and train Human Systems Integration practitioners in the state-of-the-art policies and processes needed t... Read More

The Power to Heal from 100 Miles Away
Apr 28, 2009
The spatter of continuous gunfire is such a constant, it’s become nothing more than background noise, something the soldier hardly even hears anymore. He creeps silently across the warm sand, slightly... Read More

Mini-Satellite Launcher Makes NPS Player in CubeSat Space Race
Jan 16, 2009
Like the Sputnik launch that triggered the Cold War space race, Russian miniature spacecraft launches have catalyzed the Naval Postgraduate School to design and build a revolutionary new mini-satellit... Read More