Naval Research Program

FY25 Topic Submissions Extended

2024-01-23T23:57:17Z

Esteemed Colleagues and NPS Students,

Submit a topic TODAY! Submit an idea and get sponsored and/or encourage your mission partners to participate. The NRP Topic Portal is open for FY25 research topic submissions. Log in via NPS credentials or CAC authentication to submit a topic.

The FY25 Topic Submission deadline has been extended to 20 March 2024, 23:59 PST.

Please continue to follow the current processes and look out for additional information regarding any updates and/or changes.

NPS Students - the Topic Portal is a great place to explore operationally relevant thesis research ideas. Please contact faculty if you would like to explore working on an NRP project.

Regards,

Naval Research Program (NRP)
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FY25 Topic Submissions Open

2023-12-08T20:08:16Z

Esteemed Colleagues and NPS Students,

The FY25 Topic Submission deadline is 7 February 2024, 23:59 PST.

Please continue to follow the current processes and look out for additional information regarding any updates and/or changes.

NPS Students - the Topic Portal is a great place to explore operationally relevant thesis research ideas. Please contact faculty if you would like to explore working on an NRP project.

Regards,

Naval Research Program (NRP)
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Questions? Contact nrp@nps.edu or visit our portal at /nrp

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Mills Medal Awarded for 2021

2023-11-17T21:02:40Z

Dear Colleagues:

I take great pleasure in announcing that this year's Mills Medal will be presented to Jeff Appleget, Senior Lecturer, Operations Research Department.

In its second year, the Mills Medal was founded through the ��ϳԹ�� (NPS) Foundation to recognize research, analysis, or service conducted under the auspices of the Naval Research Program (NRP) that had a meritorious or conspicuous impact to a Headquarters or Fleet organization. Nominations are solicited from Fleet Topic Sponsors of past NRP Research projects.

It is open to any living Naval Research Program principal investigator for any projects executed or services rendered under the Naval Research Program (or its predecessor), in any previous year, is eligible for nomination. The winner does not have to still be affiliated with NPS. Only one project (investigation team) will be recognized per year and the award may not be given to the same person twice.

This year’s selection committee members were:

Col Pugh (Chair)
CAPT Hight
CAPT Hays
CAPT Sunvold
Professor Kyle Lin

Dr. Appleget's adroit application of wargaming to inform force development decisions in support of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab has no peer. His students' willingness to immerse themselves in the most demanding future operating environment challenges is a function of his charisma, technical/tactical acumen, and positive leadership.

The powerful work done by Dr. Appleget in support of USMC force design efforts has greatly aided in generating the synergy and momentum necessary to catapult the Corps towards success in the first battle of the next war.

Further, the Naval Enterprise has a greater understanding of the Future Operating Environment has been significantly enhanced by the perspectives, insights, and thoughtful hard work of the Dr. Appleget and his team of post-graduate candidates.

He will receive $1,000, a 3” (nickel, minted) medallion in a display box, and a signed certificate. I thank the Mills Medal Award Committee for their excellent job in selecting this very deserving winner.

Please join me in congratulating Jeff on this achievement!

Sincerely,
Dr. Scott S. Gartner
Provost and Academic Dean
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FY22 Topic Review Board Funding Results Posted

2023-11-17T21:03:33Z

The FY22 Naval Research Program (NRP) research resource funding allocation results are now online. The “FY22 NAVY & Marine Topic Review Board Results” can be viewed in the Topic Portal or PDF format at: https://my.nps.edu/nrp/research.

FY20 Annual Report Published

2023-11-20T20:23:05Z

In FY20, $10.8M, in funding was distributed, which translated into 89 (85 represented in this report) distinct U.S. Navy and Marine Corps projects that cover the entire Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) staff, Fleet Forces (FF), Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition (ASN (RDA)), Strategic Systems Programs (SSP), and Marine Corps functional organizations.

Click here to view the FY20 Annual Report.

Deckplate Innovation Study Challenge

2023-11-20T20:40:40Z

For the FY22 DISC, we are accepting research topic submissions that focus on: "How Current Technology can..."

Simplify or improve operations	Save material and property
Save time required to accomplish a task	Save manpower or money
Speed up production	Promote health
Increase output and enhance productivity	Increase safety

Challenge winners will have the opportunity to meet and partner with the respective Fleet Science Advisor and NPS Faculty Member selected to conduct their study.

Learn more

Mills Medal Nominations

2023-11-20T20:50:15Z

To all NRP Topic Sponsors Past and Present,

Please see the attached nomination form for the Mills Medal.

The Mills Medal was founded through the ��ϳԹ�� (NPS) Foundation to recognize research, analysis, or service conducted under the auspices of the Naval Research Program (NRP) that had a meritorious or conspicuous impact to a Headquarters or Fleet organization. The Foundation is in possession of the medals, certificates, and an endowment has been established to support an annual cash prize of $1000. This medal applies to all NPS Faculty (present and former), NRP funded Primary Investigators/Researchers.

For CY2021 consideration, submissions must be received by: 31 March 2021 (extended).

Please send completed nomination forms to: nps_nrp_poc@nps.edu

Mills Medal Awarded for FY20

2023-11-20T20:48:27Z

In its inaugural year the Mills Medal was founded through the ��ϳԹ�� (NPS) Foundation to recognize research, analysis, or service conducted under the auspices of the Naval Research Program (NRP) that had a meritorious or conspicuous impact to a Headquarters or Fleet organization. Nominations are solicited from Fleet Topic Sponsors of past NRP Research projects. This year’s selection committee members were:

Col Randy Pugh (Chair)
CAPT Clark Bone
CAPT Ed McCabe
CAPT Chuck Good
CAPT Ray Barnes
CDR Justin Davis
Assistant Professor Tony Pollman

I take great pleasure in announcing that this year's Mills Medal will be presented to Kyle Lin, Professor, from the Operations Research Department.

Professor Lin’s project helped develop the Surface Ship Drydock Schedule Planner, a versatile decision aid tool that generates an optimal drydock schedule that maximizes drydock utilization. This tool has been adopted Navy-wide and has significantly helped mitigate one of the Surface Navy’s greatest maintenance challenges.

He will receive $1,000, a 3” (nickel, minted) medallion in a display box, and a signed certificate.

I thank the Mills Medal Award Committee for their excellent job in selecting this very deserving winner.

Robert F. Dell

Mills Medal Nominations

2023-11-20T20:43:50Z

To all NRP Topic Sponsors Past and Present,

Please see the attached nomination form for the Mills Medal.

For CY2021 consideration, submissions must be received by: 15 March 2020 (extended).

Please send completed nomination forms to: nps_nrp_poc@nps.edu

FY19 Project Funding Recommendations

2023-11-20T20:37:10Z

Final approval is conditional on the review by the Analytic Council, the BA6 review for appropriateness of study funds, and the outcome of a possible Congressional Mark against Navy RDT&E funds. We highlight these conditions as we have to work through these issues with the Navy Analytic Office (NAO) and the N1. Completed research proposal packages are due by 5. We will keep you updated on the status of the reviews and FY19 funding as it becomes available. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Contact: nps_nrp_poc@nps.edu

A message from the Dean of Research

2023-11-20T20:35:00Z

BLUF: Because the FY16 budget has been cut significantly from $12M to about $9M, FY16 projects will be authorized 2 years to perform their work. To execute this, we are asking PIs to budget about 1/3 of their overall budget in Year 2 (FY17). Please plan for your FY16 accounts to be fully spent by 9/30/16, and then a new account will be provided the following year using FY17 funds. This strategy enables the program to continue to fund as many projects as possible while not overspending the FY16 budget.

Dear Colleagues:

As you are aware, the NPS Naval Research Program (NRP) has suffered cuts to its budget in FY15 and beyond due to our slow overall execution rate compared with the 90%-expended-in-year-1 expectation. The FY16 budget was cut significantly because of this from $12M down to about $9M, although that $3M cut is programmed to be restored over the FY17 to FY19 period.

Rather than drastically reducing the number of new starts in FY16, it was decided by the members of the Technical Review Board, with support from our Comptroller and my office, that we will keep the number of new starts at the $12M level but split the project funding across the FY16 and FY17 fiscal years. This has the dual benefit of starting more projects and ensuring that we will meet the 90% expenditure requirement in FY16.

What does this mean for you? It means that most of your projects will need to extend into FY17. On average, everyone will need to place about 1/3 of their project funding in year 2 (i.e., in FY17). To implement this spend strategy, you will need to submit two separate budgets; one for FY16 and one for FY17. No carryover or extensions of the FY16 funds will be granted because of the 90% execution requirement. Therefore, please provide a FY16 spend plan that is attainable based on the support you have available today. The revised spending plan templates are available on the NRP website.

The Topic Sponsor must be informed and agreeable to the later date on the deliverable. If the Topic Sponsor is not amenable to a later deliverable date, or if the project itself will experience unreasonable difficulties based on the extended timeline, please contact the NRP Program manager (Mr. Rod Abbott, rpabbott@nps.edu, 832-656-2579) for further consideration.

To accommodate this added complexity in budgeting, the FY16 PIs will be given an extra week to develop their proposals. Please submit your fully developed and fully signed FY16 NRP proposal package by September 4th to NPS_NRP_POC@nps.edu. If you have any questions about your budgets, please contact the NRP program office.

Sincerely,

Jeff Paduan

Dean of Research
Jeffrey D. Paduan, Code 04            (831) 656-3350; 2038/FAX
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