Official NPS Research Centers

Several Research Centers of Excellence have been established at NPS under the auspices of the Associate Provost and Dean of Research.  A Research Center is a group of faculty/staff with a significant concentration of expertise in a particular area normally with an emphasis on applications.  Every Research Center supports the NPS educational mission and displays a clear benefit to NPS, the Navy and/or DoD.

• Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Center (ADSC)
• Center for Additive Manufacturing
• Center for Cybersecurity and Cyber Operations (C3O)
  • formerly the Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research (CISR)
• Center for Joint Services Electronic Warfare
• Center for Materials Research (CMR)
• Center for Multi-INT Studies (CMIS)
• Center on Contemporary Conflict
• Remote Sensing Center (RSC)
• TurboPropulsion Laboratory

Other Programs @NPS

• Acquisition Research Program
• Adaptive Optics Center of Excellence for National Security (AOCOE)
• Center for Asymmetric Warfare
• Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research (CAVR)
• Center for Cyber Warfare
• Center for Decision, Risk, Controls and Signals Intelligence
• Center for Defense Management Reform
• Center for Edge Power
• Center for Executive Education (CEE)
• Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)
• Center for Information Warfare and Innovation (CIWI)
• Center for Infrastructure Defense (CID)
• Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS)
• Center for Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) Research
• Center for Network Innovation and Experimentation (CENETIX)
• Center for New Security Economics and Net Assessment
• Center for Radiation Hardened Electronics
• Center for Survivability and Lethality
• Center for the Study of Mobile Devices and Communications
• Center for the Study of Potential Outcomes
• Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
• Common Operational Research Environment (CORE) Program
• Culture and Conflict Studies (CCS)
• Cryptologic Research Center
• Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI)
• Information Dominance Center for Excellence
• Information Operations Center for Research
• Littoral Operations Center (LOC)
• Robo Dojo
• SEED Center for Data Farming (Simulation Experiments & Efficient Designs)
• Software Engineering Center
• Spacecraft Research and Design Center
• Undersea Warfare Center

Unique Research Facilities

The Naval Postgraduate School has several unique research facilities. These facilities have been developed to provide faculty and students with a dynamic research environment to work on problems of special interest to the Department of the Navy/Department of Defense. Classified facilities at NPS allow research up to the Secret Compartmented Information (SCI) level.

• Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS)
• Common Operational Research Environment (CORE) Program
• Cryptologic Research Laboratory (CRL)
• Directed Energy Simulation Laboratory
• Interactive Digital Environment Analysis (IDEA) Laboratory
• Ocean Acoustic Observatory
• Radar/Electronic Warfare Laboratory
• Rocket and Combustion Laboratory
• Secure Computer Network Research Laboratory
• Small Satellite Development Laboratory
• Secure Space Systems Research
• Spacecraft Research and Design Center
• Systems Technology Battle Laboratory
• TurboPropulsion Laboratory