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NPS Spring Graduates Challenged to Shape the Future of Warfare and Security
The ϳԹ (NPS) celebrated its 2025 Spring Quarter graduates during a commencement ceremony on June 18 at King Hall Auditorium. A total of 375 warrior-scholars—including 32 allied ... Read More
NPS Hall of Fame Alumnus Inspires Graduates During Winter Quarter Commencement
The ϳԹ (NPS) recognized the achievements of its 2025 Winter Quarter graduates during its latest commencement ceremony, March 28, in King Hall auditorium on the school’s Monterey... Read More
NPS, Industry Research Leads to First in Persistent, Ocean Acoustic Data Collection Technology
A research partnership between the ϳԹ (NPS) and Seatrec has led to a milestone in the persistent monitoring of oceanographic and underwater acoustic data in real-time, and near ... Read More
Former SECDEF Honors NPS 2024 Fall Graduates
The Hon. Leon Panetta, 23rd Secretary of Defense and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), recognized the accomplishments of the most recent graduating class as the Naval Postgradu... Read More
Operation Ice Camp Yields Treasure Trove of Arctic Data for NPS Students, Faculty
Early this year, inside the Arctic Circle – thousands of miles from the ϳԹ (NPS) campus in Monterey – a small team of students and faculty undertook a critical scientific resear... Read More
NPS President Explores Links Between Additive Manufacturing, Warfighting Readiness With Panelists at Sea-Air-Space
One of the key measures of effectiveness for any warfighting organization is materiel readiness – the ability to maintain ships, aircraft, vehicles and weapons systems, keeping them in the fight. Ensu... Read More
Former Colombian Navy Commander Inducted Into NPS Hall of Fame
The ϳԹ (NPS) honored retired Colombian Navy Adm. Guillermo E. Barrera for his lifetime of service, both to his country and to the United States, by inducting him as the 30th mem... Read More
17th President of National Defense University Honors NPS Winter Quarter Graduates
The ϳԹ (NPS) recognized the achievement of its 2024 Winter Quarter graduates during the school’s latest commencement ceremony in King Hall Auditorium, Mar. 29. U.S. Air Force L... Read More
NPS Students Accelerate Innovative Over-The-Horizon Technology Solution
Since Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced the establishment of the Naval Innovation Center at the ϳԹ (NPS) in 2022, the institution has worked to establish the proce... Read More
Exploration of Wolfpack Tactics Earns Submariner Recognition in Operations Research
Advancements in technology towards secure communication between submarines will significantly affect how they could operate in groups, or modern “Wolfpack Tactics.”  This award-winning analysis c... Read More
Discovery Day at NPS Opens Campus to Central Coast Students
In a sight not seen for more than two years, nearly 2,000 students, teachers and parent chaperones from throughout the Central Coast descended upon the ϳԹ (NPS) for the return o... Read More
Career Submariner Steps in as NPS’ New Undersea Warfare Chair
Retired Navy Vice Adm. Phillip G. Sawyer has taken the helm as the ϳԹ (NPS) Undersea Warfare (USW) Chair, and will now serve as the primary liaison and advisor between the unive... Read More
NPS Launches Center on Combating Hybrid Threats to Address Hybrid Warfare
On November 25, 2018, a Russian commercial cargo ship suddenly parked itself across the narrow Kerch Strait on the Crimea, blocking three Ukrainian Navy vessels sailing in international waters from re... Read More
NPS Creating Virtual Undersea Environments to Advance Underwater Autonomy
With undersea warfare remaining a key domain for U.S. defense strategies, the ability to map and navigate the depths of the world’s oceans becomes increasingly essential to maintaining an advantage. R... Read More
NPS Scholar Program Takes Warfare Tactics Instructors to the Next level
A pilot program at the ϳԹ (NPS) is taking fleet Warfare Tactics Instructors –officers with specialized training, operational experience and a deep understanding of fleet tactics... Read More
USW, Oceanography Student Uses Arctic Experience to Advance Research
Lt. Kristen Ainslie, an undersea warfare student at the ϳԹ (NPS), is on the home stretch of her challenging thesis in physical oceanography. Her research, critical to continue t... Read More
Open For Autonomous Business: Largest-Ever Unmanned & Robotics Systems Research Contract Awarded For NPS
MONTEREY, Calif. (NPS) – Military students at the ϳԹ (NPS) have firsthand experience with complex challenges in the fleet and the field. They come to NPS to work alongside exper... Read More
NPS Sees Increased Foreign Enrollment in Undersea Warfare Program
NPS’ undersea warfare program is experiencing an influx of students from allied foreign nations, many from countries along the strategic Pacific Rim. “Submarines have become the weapon of choice for ... Read More
NPS Professor to Join Astronauts in Return to Aquarius Habitat
NPS Research Assistant Professor Dr. Noel E. Du Toit has been granted access to Florida International University’s Aquarius Reef Base Underwater Habitat located beneath the waters of the Florida Keys ... Read More
University USW Curriculum Leads Resurgence in Undersea Warfare Dominance
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
Pacific Fleet Commander Honored With Distinguished Alumnus Award
Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT) was named a distinguished alumnus by the ϳԹ (NPS) April 28, while attending the university’s annual Submarine Birthday Ball. Adm... Read More
Student Explores Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Maritime Data Collection
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 Acquires Two USVs, Opens Sea Web Lab for Expanded Undersea Warfare Research
ϳԹ leaders, students and guests gathered on the roof of Spanagel Hall, Jan. 11, to welcome two new unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to the university’s research community, and t... Read More
NPS Launches Online Wargame Focused on Countering Piracy
Researchers from the ϳԹ’s (NPS) Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) Institute, in coordination with the San Francisco Bay-area based Institute for the Future (... Read More
NPS Students Travel to the Arctic for ICEX 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
NPS Pioneers “Seaweb” Underwater Sensor Networks
The ϳԹ 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
Undersea Warfare Academic Group Re-established at NPS
As the military branch tasked with protecting our nation’s waterways, the Navy remains diligent in areas of maritime security and undersea warfare. In 1971, as the Cold War continued and the perceived... Read More