Research Facilities & Centers - Office of Research & Innovation
Research Facilities available at NPS
Research Institutes
Department-Level Institutes
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
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
- Other Resources
- Contact Information
- 831-656-3008 (phone)
- 831-656-2038 (fax)
- research@nps.edu