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 as per NPSINST 3900.2B. 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. (Research centers receive no funding from the Navy mission budget; they serve to organize and promote interdisciplinary experts around a common theme.) Every Research Center supports the NPS educational mission and displays a clear benefit to NPS, the Navy and/or DoD.

Current NPS Research Centers of Excellence

• Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Center (ADSC)
• Bucklew Research Center
• Center for Additive Manufacturing
• Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research (CAVR)
• Center for Cyber Warfare
• Center for Cybersecurity and Cyber Operations (C3O)
  • formerly the Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research (CISR)
• Center for Infrastructure Defense (CID)
• Center for Joint Services Electronic Warfare
• Center for Materials Research (CMR)
• Center for Multi-INT Studies (CMIS)
• Center for Network Innovation and Experimentation (CENETIX)
• Center on Combating Hybrid Threats (CCHT)
• Center on Contemporary Conflict 
• Center for Modeling Human Behavior (CMHB)
• Common Operational Research Environment (CORE) Lab
• DOD Information Strategy Research Center
• Littoral Operations Center (LOC)
• Remote Sensing Center (RSC)
• SEED Center for Data Farming (Simulation Experiments & Efficient Designs)
• Spacecraft Research and Design Center (SRDC)
• TurboPropulsion Laboratory

Past Centers

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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
• The Sea Land Air Military Research Initiative (SLAMR)
• Secure Computer Network Research Laboratory
• Secure Space Systems Research
• Small Satellite Development Laboratory
• Spacecraft Research and Design Center
• Systems Technology Battle Laboratory
• TurboPropulsion Laboratory