Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, CA
FLC Far West Laboratory Profile
Technology Transfer Contact:
Ms. Danielle Kuska
Naval Postgraduate School
Halligan Hall
699 Dyer Rd. - Building 222
Monterey, CA 93943-5138
831-656-2099 Fax: 831-656-2038
Email: dkuska@nps.navy.mil
Home Page: http://www.nps.navy.mil/

Background

The Naval Postgraduate School is in its 84th year of operation. The development of a naval institution of higher learning dedicated to the advanced education of commissioned officers began June 9, 1909, when the Postgraduate Department of the US Naval Academy was established at Annapolis. In 1919, the postgraduate department was renamed the United States Naval Postgraduate School. The Navy officially established the school on the West Coast in December 1951.

Currently, the Naval Postgraduate School graduates approximately 800 students per year. Its student body includes officers of all five US services and approximately 25 allied services as well as DoD civilians.

Mission

To conduct and direct the advanced education of commissioned officers, and to provide such other technical and professional instruction as may be prescribed to meet the needs of the Naval Service, and in support of the foregoing, to foster and encourage a program of research in order to sustain academic excellence.

Areas of Expertise

In support of its primary mission of graduate education, the Naval Postgraduate School conducts a substantial program of research. More than three hundred Ph.D. faculty in eleven academic departments and four academic groups are involved in a wide variety of research areas summarized below.

Aeronautics And Astronautics:

  • High-Alpha Aerodynamics and Enhanced Aircraft Maneuverability Studies (F18, X31)
  • High Angle of Attack Missile Aerodynamics
  • Advanced Helicopter Studies
  • Unmanned Air Vehicle Technology
  • Air Vehicle Controls and Military Applications of Neural Networks
  • Failure and Life Prediction for Advanced Composite and Aging Aluminum Vehicle Structures
  • Spacecraft and Space-Based Weapons
  • Aircraft Combat Survivability Lethality Assessment
Administrative Sciences:
  • Acquisition
  • Logistics and Transportation
  • Computers, Info. and Communications Systems
  • Financial Management
  • Manpower, Personnel, and Training Analysis
  • Policy Analysis, Management and Communications
Computer Science:
  • Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  • Computer Graphics and Visual Simulation
  • Computer Systems and Architecture
  • Database and Data Engineering
  • Software Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering:
  • Communications, Communication Engineering
  • Electromagnetics, Electro-Optics
  • Electronic Systems
  • Power Systems
  • Radar and Electronic Warfare
  • Signal Processing
  • Systems and Control
  • Underwater Acoustics
Mathematics:
  • Scientific Computation and Applied Mathematics
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Simulation Computation
Mechanical Engineering:
  • Solid Mechanics, Shock and Vibration
  • Ship Systems
  • Dynamic Systems, Controls and Robotics
  • Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Turbomachinery
  • Materials Science
Meteorology:
  • Synoptic and Mesoscale Dynamics
  • Numerical Modeling and Prediction
  • Environmental Analysis and Visualization
  • Remote Sensing
  • In-situ Observational Systems
  • Boundary Layer Meteorology
  • Air-Sea Interaction
National Security Affairs:
  • Strategic Planning
  • Area Studies
  • Intelligence
  • Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict
Oceanography:
  • Physical Oceanography
  • Coastal and Nearshore Oceanography
  • Acoustical Oceanography
  • Air-Sea Interaction and Ocean Turbulence
  • Numerical Prediction and Data Assimilation
Operations Research:
  • Optimization
  • Stochastic Modeling and Simulation
  • Statistics and Data Analysis
  • Wargaming and Combat Analysis
Physics:
  • Applied Acoustics
  • Target Acquisition and Surveillance
  • Space Systems Applications
  • Weapons and Weapons Effects
Academic Groups:
  • Antisubmarine Warfare
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Command, Control, Communications
  • Space Systems
Facilities and Resources

NPS has extensive laboratory facilities to support research in all academic departments and groups including special facilities not available elsewhere. For additional information, contact the Dean of Research at (408) 656-2098.

Facilities include:

  • Herrmann Hall (the old Hotel Del Monte) serves as the main administration building and the Bachelor Officer Quarters, with 122 rooms for permanent and transit personnel. There are 42 Bachelor Enlisted Quarters rooms in two buildings on the main campus. Officer housing at La Mesa Village consists of 877 family units. Also, 130 family units on Fort Ord are reserved for NPS enlisted members.
  • Dudley Knox Library houses over 483,000 books, government documents and periodicals. King Hall, the main lecture hall on campus seats 1,400.
Components of Technology Transfer Program include Patent Marketing/Licensing; Cooperative Research Development Agreements; and Publications.

Last Updated 06/01/2009