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Energy Executive Education Helps Navy Leaders Implement Cultural Change
Sep 27, 2013
A unique and diverse mix of Navy officers, senior enlisted and DOD civilians converged upon the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Sept. 23-27, to take part in an intensive weeklong executive education ... Read More

NPS Challenges Students to Consider the Ethics of Unmanned Systems
Sep 26, 2013
A recent, often impassioned, debate at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) on the ethics of robotic combat systems offered the public a window into NPS’ attempts to challenge its student body to explo... 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

Remote Antarctic Research Details Ice Melt Below Massive Glacier
Sep 12, 2013
An international team of scientists and glaciologists are reaping the data-rich rewards of an exhaustive expedition to the Western Antarctic Ice Shelf’s (WAIS) Pine Island Glacier, where landmark meas... 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

NPS Researchers Lead Beyond Line of Sight Command and Control Research Effort
Aug 5, 2013
The Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Distributed Information Systems Experimentation (DISE) research group recently completed an ambitious series of experiments at Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) Ch... Read More

Innovative Network Architecture Applied to Maritime Security Experimentation
Jul 17, 2013
The Global Information Network Architecture (GINA), an innovative network architecture championed by network specialists at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), was recently utilized in a globe-spanni... Read More

NPS Student’s Intel App Takes Center Stage in Global Interdiction Experiment
Jul 17, 2013
U.S. Army Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Chris Linnel, a student at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), recently applied an NPS-developed application to a massive international nuclear interdiction ex... Read More

U.S. Cyber Command Chief Inducted Into NPS Hall of Fame
Jun 21, 2013
U.S. Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, and Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service, was inducted into the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Hall o... Read More

Cyber Security Hall of Famer Dorothy Denning Discusses the Ethics of Cyber Warfare
Jun 4, 2013
The United Nations Charter prohibits the use of force by one state against another. But in the cyber world, where are the borders and what constitutes force? Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Defense An... Read More

Defense Analysis Professor Explores Ethics of Unmanned Systems in New Book
May 22, 2013
With so many lingering questions surrounding the ethics of drone warfare, NPS Department of Defense Analysis Assistant Professor and ethicist Dr. Bradley Strawser saw an opportunity to further the con... Read More

RELIEF Helps First Responders Evaluate Modern HA, DR Technologies, Scenarios
May 13, 2013
A large team of Naval Postgraduate School students, along with engineers, technologists, and emergency and first responders, wrapped up the latest edition of the Research & Experimentation for Loc... Read More

NPS, SPAWAR Collaboration Explores High-Energy Laser Weapon Defense
May 9, 2013
From earth’s orbit to the world’s oceans, the U.S. Navy is dedicated to protecting the communications capabilities and manpower necessary for operations worldwide. Defense researchers are consistently... Read More

NPS’ Long-Time Directed Energy Program Turns to Power Supply Systems
May 3, 2013
Physicists at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) are collaborating with researchers at the University of Texas to develop the power supply that will help make ship-born laser weapons a reality on U.S... Read More

Power Play – NPS' Defense Energy Program Educates Tomorrow's Energy-Intelligent Officers
May 3, 2013
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 Department of Systems Engineering Ranked 21st in the Nation
Apr 24, 2013
U.S. News and World Report recently released its annual rankings of the top graduate schools in the country, and the Naval Postgraduate School’s own Department of Systems Engineering ranked 21st on th... Read More

Robotics Takes Center Stage During Annual Campus Research Fair
Apr 12, 2013
Robots of every shape, size and purpose dotted the academic quad as the Naval Postgraduate School’s Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) once again hosted their... Read More

Cyber Warriors Professional Association Another Sign of Evolving Battlefield
Apr 8, 2013
A Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) student, U.S. Army Capt. Joseph Billingsley of Stamford, Conn., is building the military’s first cyber warfare professionals association. The Military Cyber Professi... Read More

NPS Students’ Thesis Addresses the Threat of Active Shooters
Mar 26, 2013
Every day, the men and women of the armed forces put themselves in harm’s way. Recent NPS graduates, U.S. Army Majors Charles Ergenbright and Sean Hubbard, are no different – and they commit to countl... Read More

NPS Program Champions Collaboration, Innovation in Unmanned Systems
Mar 8, 2013
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) recently reached a program milestone – it signed up its 1,000th member. CRUSER began j... 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 Team Sees Success in Research on Pine Island Glacier
Mar 1, 2013
For most, setting foot on a desolate Antarctic glacier would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And with its bone-chilling winds and uncomfortably low temperatures, once in a lifetime might be just ... Read More

Naval Postgraduate School Hosts Collaborative Interagency Field Experimentation Program
Feb 19, 2013
Students, faculty and staff from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) conducted Joint Interagency Field Experiment (JIFX) 12-2 with representatives from the Department of Defense’s combatant commands (... Read More

Design Team Successfully Accelerates Beam in FEL Spoke Cavity
Feb 5, 2013
The Naval Postgraduate School’s long history in Free Electron Laser research reached another milestone late last year when the team achieved the first successful acceleration of an electron beam in a ... Read More

NPS Faculty, Researchers Stand Up New Littoral Operations Center
Jan 10, 2013
Faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) are advancing the university’s education and research into the operational and strategic complexities of the near-shore environment with the establishmen... Read More

Navy’s Cyber Commander Addresses NPS Information Dominance Corps Students
Jan 9, 2013
Vice Adm. Michael S. Rogers, Commander of the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F), spent an afternoon addressing a contingent of Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Information Dominance C... Read More

NPS Partners with Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences on Grad Certificate Program
Jan 3, 2013
The Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation Institute (MOVES), in partnership with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), has develop... Read More

NPS Alumnus Applies Studies to Monumental ‘Endeavour’
Dec 19, 2012
One hundred eighty-two meetings. Eight hundred fifty emails. A 96-hour work shift with the whole world watching. That was just part of Naval Postgraduate School alumnus, Inglewood Police Lt. James ... Read More

NPS Promotes STEM Fields Through Expanding Your Horizons Conference
Nov 13, 2012
For most kids, Saturday mornings are usually spent sleeping in, chatting with friends, or playing video games – but for a group of motivated girls from Monterey County schools, it was a different stor... Read More

Researchers, Commanders Partner on Potential Networking Revolution
Nov 2, 2012
When men and women go into combat they accept a level of risk that is hard for people outside the profession of arms to comprehend. Still, there is one call that causes even the most seasoned veterans... 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

Defense Analysis Professor Selected for Inaugural Cyber Security Hall of Fame Class
Oct 17, 2012
In a nod to the dedication and influence of one of the Naval Postgraduate School’s exceptional faculty, NPS Department of Defense Analysis (DA) Distinguished Professor, Dr. Dorothy Denning, has been i... 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

NPS Researchers Evaluate Biofuels for Powering the Fleet
Sep 6, 2012
As the largest consumer of fuel in the United States, the Department of Defense has recognized the need to reduce its own dependence on foreign oil, and explore cheaper, safer alternatives. In support... Read More

Singaporean Students, University Faculty Apply Innovative Control Technologies to UAVs
Sep 6, 2012
Two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hover over a building in Singapore. UAV one drops 20 feet and enters through an open window, while UAV two flies slowly above a fire escape until locating a point o... Read More

NPS Interns Pay It Forward to Local Middle School Students
Aug 27, 2012
While the Naval Postgraduate School’s mission is to provide education and research that enhances our national security, one of the by-products has long included opportunities for young people through ... Read More

NPS Researchers Apply the Latest Battery Chemistries to Power the Fleet
Aug 21, 2012
Students and faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) are planning to design and build a battery using technologies that have already been called a potential game-changer. U.S. Army Capt. Andre... Read More

NPS Student Team Analyzes Operational Utility of Future USVs
Aug 15, 2012
Students of Naval Postgraduate School’s Systems Engineering Analysis (SEA) curriculum have completed a study representing a first-order analysis of the unmanned surface vessel (USV) of the future. Tha... Read More

Afghan Vet Inspires Salinas Youth to be Brainy, Brave and Beautiful
May 30, 2012
The 2010 winner of the Miss Latina World title, Valencia de la Vega, is the kind of woman plenty of parents would love their young girls to look up to. At first glance, she is confident and poised. Sh... Read More

SEED Center’s International Data Farming Workshop Returns to NPS
May 2, 2012
The Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Simulation, Experiments and Efficient Design (SEED) Center for Data Farming hosted the 24th International Data Farming Workshop (IDFW), March 26-30. A multinatio... 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

NPS Assists Nearby Defense Language Institute in Migration to .EDU Network
Mar 1, 2012
Officials from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) and Naval Postgraduate School celebrated the completion of the NPS/DLIFLC Academic Network Initiative during a late Janua... Read More

Students Explore Potential Use of Carbon Nanotubes in Space Propulsion
Feb 29, 2012
Like something from a sci-fi movie, researchers at NPS are looking at using carbon nanotubes to propel satellites in space. Recent NPS Space Systems Engineering (SSE) graduate Lt. Paul Camp explored t... Read More

NPS Establishes Interdisciplinary Cyber Academic Group
Feb 15, 2012
In the January 2012 “Priorities for the 21st Century Defense” report, the Department of Defense listed cyberspace operations as one of the 10 primary missions for the armed forces. The growing threats... Read More

A-10 Transformation Will Lead to Big Research Opportunities for NPS
Feb 9, 2012
Thanks to a dedicated group of scientists and researchers, including several at NPS’ Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS) and the National Science Foundation, new te... Read More

Navy’s Cyber Commander Participates in NPS’ Information Dominance Symposium
Feb 3, 2012
Vice Adm. Michael Rogers, Commander of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and the U.S. 10th Fleet, visited the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to present at the university’s Information Dominance Senior Leader ... Read More

NPS’ Award-Winning Dudley Knox Library Launches Mobile Website
Feb 1, 2012
The Naval Postgraduate School’s Dudley Knox Library (DKL) recently launched a mobile version of its website to offer library users easy access anywhere, anytime to the wealth of information and servic... Read More

Security Solutions Lecture Presented by NSA Technical Director Neal Ziring
Feb 1, 2012
Neal Ziring, Technical Director in the Information Assurance Directorate at the National Security Agency (NSA), provided a lecture titled “Building Robust Security Solutions Using Layering and Indepen... Read More

Student Explores Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Maritime Data Collection
Jan 27, 2012
Undersea Warfare student Lt. Timothy Rochholz is exploring the research potential of a new wave-propelled unmanned surface vehicle which industry hopes can replace moored buoys for maritime surveillan... Read More

NPS Team Wins MILCOM Best Paper Award for Plan to Secure Networks From Compromised Devices
Dec 6, 2011
NPS Computer Science Professor Geoffrey Xie, recent NPS graduate Lt. Scott Huchton, and Assistant Professor Robert Beverly were awarded the 2011 Fred W. Ellersick Military Communications (MILCOM) Awar... Read More

iRobot COO and NPS Grad Joseph Dyer Explores Concept Design, Development with University Community
Nov 15, 2011
The Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) welcomed guest speaker and NPS alumnus, retired Vice Adm. Joseph Dyer, Chief Operating Officer of iRobot, Inc., to the ... Read More

Expanding Your Horizons Conference Opens Doors for Young Women in STEM Fields
Nov 14, 2011
More than 130 young ladies from around the Monterey Peninsula attended the Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) Conference and Career Fair on Nov. 5, part of ongoing outreach efforts by the Naval Postgraduat... Read More

NPS Faculty, Researchers Promote Computer Science in, Beyond Local Community
Nov 10, 2011
With computer technology well entrenched in every aspect of life, and cybersecurity a critical component of national security, the demand for computer science professionals has grown dramatically. Unf... Read More

NPS Oceanography Faculty and Students Maintain, Utilize World’s Largest Coastal Radar Network
Oct 25, 2011
Up and down the coast, a network of transmitters and receivers that is the largest-of-its-kind in the world dot the beaches of California, silently reflecting high-frequency radio waves off of the sur... Read More

New Center Examines Future DoD Trends From a Mathematical Perspective
Oct 21, 2011
Reinforcing its role as a defense-relevant research institution, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has established the new Center for Decision, Risk, Controls and Signals Intelligence (DRCSI) as par... Read More

Workshop Explores Multidisciplinary Approaches to Today’s Cyber Threats
Oct 11, 2011
The Department of Defense’s Information Operations Center for Excellence, located at the Naval Postgraduate School, and the Army Reserve Information Operations Command joined together as co-chairs for... 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

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus Announces NPS’ Energy Degree Programs
Sep 6, 2011
U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus took to the stage in King Auditorium, Aug. 29, to discuss the Navy's energy initiatives, and to announce NPS' contributions to those efforts through the establishm... Read More

RELIEF Program Supports Military, NGO, Industry Collaboration to Benefit Homeland Security, First Responders
Sep 1, 2011
NPS researchers are frequently involved in emergency response and homeland security research projects, looking to assist in disaster response and prevention efforts worldwide. One such program looks t... Read More

Students Hear DoD’s Research Goals Straight from Assistant SecDef Zachary Lemnios
Aug 17, 2011
NPS students had a unique opportunity to hear firsthand from an expert in military research and the future of DoD research investments when the Honorable Zachary Lemnios visited the university for mee... Read More

NPS Explores New Ways to Deliver High-Energy Laser Defense Systems to the Fleet
Aug 9, 2011
For the United States Navy, the Free Electron Laser (FEL) is a potential game changer – a weapon that delivers a high-intensity laser beam capable of stopping incoming missiles in seconds. Since 1989,... Read More

University Faculty Keynote Workshop on Ethics in Emerging Defense Technologies
Aug 4, 2011
Attendees at the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations and National Security (CETMONS) gathered for a three-day workshop titled “Ethics and Warfighting Technologies,” held at the n... Read More

Modeling, Simulation Experts Gather at NPS for 11th Annual MOVES Summit
Jul 28, 2011
Training and preparation are key components of effective military operations, particularly in theater, but preparing for the dangers of combat in a training scenario can be dangerous and conditions di... Read More

NPS Launches Online Wargame Focused on Countering Piracy
Jun 2, 2011
Researchers from the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) Institute, in coordination with the San Francisco Bay-area based Institute for the Future (... Read More

From the Shuttle to the Lab, NPS Alumni Look for Solutions to Today’s Space Challenges
Jun 1, 2011
Naval Postgraduate School alumni and former astronauts Kent Rominger and Ken Reightler have seen time change a lot of things. The shuttle program is at its end, their days as astronauts with NASA are ... Read More

NPS Dean of Research Leads Search for Universe’s Dark Side
May 17, 2011
Cosmologists and astrophysicists recently came to the astounding realization that the expansion of space-time is accelerating and that everything we can see and measure in the universe accounts for on... Read More

NPS Students Travel to the Arctic for ICEX 2011
Apr 29, 2011
Part of the Navy’s maritime domain includes the frigid and desolate frozen Arctic Ocean north of the Alaskan Coast, where swiftly melting ice has researchers at NPS looking to fully understand the cau... 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

CHDS Leader’s New Book Delves Into the ‘Why’ of Disasters
Apr 20, 2011
A nearly 25-year-old theory posed by a late Danish physicist provides insight into how to the U.S. can soften the blows of catastrophic events, according to a recently released book written by Ted Lew... Read More

NPS Goes All Out for Monterey County Science and Engineering Fair
Apr 11, 2011
More than 50 Naval Postgraduate School faculty and students took time out from their busy schedules to judge 300+ entries at the 2011 Monterey County Science and Engineering Fair, March 25-27. Local g... Read More

NPS’ SEED Center Hosts International Data Farming Workshop
Apr 8, 2011
Naval Postgraduate School’s Simulation, Experiments and Efficient Design (SEED) Center for Data Farming hosted the International Data Farming Workshop 22 (IDFW) at the Monterey Hyatt Regency Hotel, Ma... Read More

SAIC CEO and NPS Alumnus Walt Havenstein Brings Passion to Promoting STEM Fields to America’s Youth
Mar 31, 2011
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has long been vested in the STEM – or Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – disciplines, not only for the thousands of military officers and DoD civili... Read More

Oracle Corp. Security Chief Lectures at NPS
Mar 21, 2011
In today’s technology-driven world, the importance of cybersecurity has never been greater. To help push this point forward, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) hosted a Secretary of the Navy Guest Le... Read More

Littoral Capstone Field Project Uses Unmanned Systems to Map Tidal Inlet Flows
Mar 18, 2011
As future Navy SEALs swim silently toward shore, they will be armed with validated 3D maps of the tides, waves and currents between their location and the target thanks to cutting-edge research by a N... Read More

Military Robotics Revolution Expert Gives SGL as Supercomputer Beats Its Human Creators
Feb 28, 2011
Just one day before “Watson,” the IBM Supercomputer, made history by defeating its human creators, one of the nation’s top robotics experts held NPS students and faculty spell bound with his fast-pace... Read More

NPS Team World Leader in Network-Controlled Maritime Nuclear Radiological Detection
Feb 3, 2011
For five years, a Naval Postgraduate School team led by Principal Investigator Prof. Alex Bordetsky has pushed the envelope of network controlled stand-off nuclear radiological threat detection throug... 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 Professor Leads Ground Breaking Hurricane Research
Jan 11, 2011
Tropical disturbances often brew during the summer months in the North Atlantic.  Many fizzle and fade with no consequence, yet a select few grow in strength and bring about devastating results w... 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

NPS OR Team Optimizes Defense Against Narco Semi-Subs
Dec 4, 2010
A Naval Postgraduate School faculty-student team has developed a mathematical model that determines the best combination and deployment of search platforms to detect and classify self-propelled semi-s... Read More

Alumnus Honored by ASNE for Excellence in Naval Engineering
Nov 22, 2010
Cmdr. Bradford Bittle, an NPS electrical engineering graduate, was named the 2009 Claud A. Jones Award winner for his significant contributions to naval engineering by the American Society of Naval En... Read More

Maintaining the Edge - NPS, Information Dominance, and the New World
Nov 15, 2010
Clouds of smoke billowed from the beaches of Veracruz as hundreds of men faced the uncertainty of their fate. Outnumbered 300 to one and facing a long, difficult battle with the Aztecs, Spanish explor... Read More

Systems Engineering DL Students Examine Hawaii’s Best in DoD, Industry
Oct 7, 2010
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

International Team Studies the Impact of Pacific Typhoons
Oct 1, 2010
Researchers from governments, militaries, weather agencies and universities around the world are participating in an Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Taiwan National Science Council sponsored resear... Read More

NIST Computer Scientist and Researcher Dr. Ron Ross Discusses Cybersecurity During Latest SGL
Sep 21, 2010
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) senior computer scientist and information security researcher Dr. Ron Ross presented a lecture to students, staff and faculty on the new challenge... Read More

Electrical Engineering Student Capt. Brandon Newell Explores Expeditionary Energy for the USMC
Sep 14, 2010
  For Marine Corps Capt. Brandon Newell, the issue of alternative energy has long been one of concern. Even before the Department of Defense (DoD) recently began to prioritize alternative energy... Read More

PEO Space Systems Chair Supports Navy’s Efforts in the Final Frontier
Sep 8, 2010
While the Navy is our nation’s seafaring service, it truly operates through every domain, be it sea or land … or space. In fact, over the past few decades, the Navy has played a major role in the deve... Read More

Professors Honored With AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award
Aug 25, 2010
During an August 3 ceremony in Toronto, Canada, NPS Professors Isaac “Mike” Ross and Fariba Fahroo were presented with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Mechanics and Contr... Read More

NPS Team Wins AIAA Young Professional Rocket Launch Competition
Aug 23, 2010
A team of students and faculty from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and Hartnell College participated in the second annual American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Young Professio... Read More

World Authority on Electromagnetic Cloaking Presents GSEAS Distinguished Guest Lecture
Aug 23, 2010
Invoking Harry Potter’s magic cloak and H.G. Wells’ “The Invisible Man,” one of the world’s foremost authorities on electromagnetic cloaking, Dr. Gunther Uhlmann, took his Naval Postgraduate School au... Read More

SpaceShipOne Pilot Brian Binnie Describes Record-Breaking Space Flight
Aug 19, 2010
In an exciting follow-up to the visit with Aviator Dick Rutan in April, the Point Lobos Section of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics presented a lecture with SpaceShipOne pilot Br... Read More

MOVES Highlights Research, Education During Annual Summit
Aug 9, 2010
In any combat situation, the stakes are high and the margin for error is slim. Training the troops and leaders in the most realistic means possible, allowing them to rise to the occasion when making d... Read More

NPS Pioneers “Seaweb” Underwater Sensor Networks
Aug 2, 2010
The Naval Postgraduate School is on the cutting edge of through-water acoustic communications technology enabling distributed autonomous ocean sensors to operate as an underwater wireless wide-area ne... Read More

NPS Grad Cmdr. Joey Frantzen Returns to Monterey as XO of USS Mobile Bay
Jul 28, 2010
It takes a lot of qualified men and women to operate the San Diego-based guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG-53). The crew of 320 take their responsibilities seriously aboard what could be the m... Read More

Student-Developed Smart Phone App Maps the “Human Terrain”
Jun 17, 2010
Thanks to a faculty-student team at the Naval Postgraduate School, smart phones will play an even greater role in field-based data collection for a variety of missions, from humanitarian assistance an... Read More

Project Snowflake Develops Precision Self-Guided Airdrop Prototype
Jun 14, 2010
As part of the continuing research collaboration between the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, students and faculty conducted experiments with a self-guided ... Read More