NIC Facility - Naval Innovation Center
Accelerating Ideas to Impact
The NIC is a future facility and a Naval capability designed for accelerating innovation. To be located at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (NPS) near Silicon Valley, the NIC will leverage NPS’ operationally experienced students, defense-expert faculty, the Naval Research & Development Establishment (NR&DE), academic research partners, and Fleet engagement to develop technology solutions with industry at greater speed and scale.
Features purposefully designed, multi-disciplinary laboratories and collaboration spaces.
Creates spaces designed for high performing interdisciplinary teams to curate, ideate, prototype, experiment, and transition cutting-edge processes and technologies.
Lowers barriers for emerging technology companies, industry, academia, and researchers to collaborate with the Fleet/DOD on solving real-world problems in a DevOps environment with the warfighter.
From the FY25 NDAA
§ 8551. "The Secretary of the Navy may enter into a contract or other agreement with one or more eligible nonprofit organizations for the design, construction, and maintenance of a multipurpose facility to be known as the ‘Naval Innovation Center’ (NIC) and to be located at the United States ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø."
The Naval Innovation Center will enhance NPS education
and leverage industry innovation more effectively
The Naval Innovation Center will develop technology solutions
and leaders educated to understand and employ them
The Naval Innovation Center will provide labs and collaboration spaces
at various levels of classification and modular capabilities
From Concept to Capability
- Artificial Intelligence
- Modeling and Simulation
- Prototyping
- Applied Cyber Operations
- Wireless Technologies (NextG)
- Energy and Climate Security
- Operational Energetics
- Naval Operational Architecture
- Autonomous Systems
- Space Systems and Sensors