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NPS Hall of Fame Alumnus Inspires Graduates During Winter Quarter Commencement
Mar 28, 2025
The Naval Postgraduate School (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' Latest CubeSat Launch Furthers International Collaboration in Space
Jan 23, 2025
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has once again boldly gone into low Earth orbit, where its faculty and students’ research will impact the national security of the nation and its allies. At 11:09 ... Read More

Former SECDEF Honors NPS 2024 Fall Graduates
Dec 18, 2024
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

NPS' Warfare Innovation Continuum Drives Students' Concept Generation
Aug 22, 2024
The Naval Warfare Studies Institute (NWSI) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) recently completed the latest cycle of its annual Warfare Innovation Continuum (WIC), a 12- to 18-month interdisciplin... Read More

Navy, DOD Leaders Discuss Space Capabilities During Second Naval Space Summit at NPS
Jul 17, 2024
Recognizing the importance of a rapidly evolving space domain to U.S. national defense, key leaders from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Department of Defense gathered at the Naval Postgraduate School... Read More

From Astronauts to CubeSats, Space Education and Research at NPS Pushes Boundaries
Jul 8, 2024
Whether it’s providing accurate positioning and navigation, or enabling intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, the space domain has never been more important to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps... Read More

NPS Student Captures Unique Photo of Earth Using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Jul 3, 2024
A recent photo taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has revealed a very unusual subject – Earth!  Typically, as its name suggests, the LRO is pointed at the surface of the moon. But w... Read More

NAVIFOR Commander Encourages NPS Spring Quarter Graduates
Jun 21, 2024
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) celebrated its 2024 Spring Quarter graduates on June 21 during a ceremony at King Hall Auditorium. A total of 335 warrior-scholars, including 27 international stude... Read More

From Provost to Professor: Gartner Will Return to Scholarship at NPS
Jun 5, 2024
MONTEREY, Calif. — Dr. Scott Gartner, who has served as the 16th Provost of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) since March 2021, recently announced that he will be returning to scholarship as a full ... Read More

Naval Postgraduate School and Qualcomm Empower Student Ideas, Wireless Innovation
May 22, 2024
The emergence of autonomous vehicles and drones has increased the demand for communication technologies that can move vast amounts of data at the necessary speeds, but traditional communication system... Read More

STEM Design Challenge Students Create Autonomous Solutions to Monitor Water Quality, Environment
May 15, 2024
For the third year in a row, science students and teachers from Monterey County high schools came together to brainstorm local solutions to real-world issues during the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)... Read More

Expansion of Shoemaker Scholarship Program at NPS Enhances Education Readiness for Naval Aviators
May 6, 2024
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is working to further extend access to its advanced degree programs throughout a warfighter’s career. Building on the recent success of providing graduate-level cer... Read More

Naval Postgraduate School Hosts 21st Annual Acquisition Research Symposium
May 2, 2024
Join the discussion about resourcing innovation and the future of research in acquisition at the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS’s) 21st Annual Acquisition Research Symposium. View the full... Read More

NPS President Explores Links Between Additive Manufacturing, Warfighting Readiness With Panelists at Sea-Air-Space
Apr 12, 2024
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

Innovation Accelerates Through NPS’ Ongoing Joint Interagency Field Experimentation Program
Apr 8, 2024
Every three months, like a high-tech pilgrimage, dozens of industry technologists journey from across the nation to a backcountry gathering at Camp Roberts, a U.S. Army National Guard base in southern... Read More

Former Colombian Navy Commander Inducted Into NPS Hall of Fame
Apr 5, 2024
The Naval Postgraduate School (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
Mar 29, 2024
The Naval Postgraduate School (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' Latest Small Satellite Launch Advances Comms Experimentation International Collaboration
Mar 27, 2024
In the dark, early morning sky of March 21 over NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on the Virginia coast, a Rocket Lab Electron rocket carried a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) manifest featur... Read More

NPS Accepted Into USSPACECOM Academic Engagement Enterprise
Feb 27, 2024
U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) has accepted the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) into its Academic Engagement Enterprise (AEE), a select partnership of 48 colleges and universities throughout the Unit... Read More

NPS Doctoral Program Advances Technical Capacity, Research Capability For NIWC Pacific Employees
Feb 13, 2024
Facing the increasingly complex, and critical, mission of advanced technological and engineering support to the Navy’s information warfare community, Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific, h... Read More

NPS Students Accelerate Innovative Over-The-Horizon Technology Solution
Feb 6, 2024
Since Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced the establishment of the Naval Innovation Center at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in 2022, the institution has worked to establish the proce... Read More

NPS POTION Software Helps UAV Break Records During Arctic Test Flight
Jan 23, 2024
Following years of dedicated work with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), NPS and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) partners have successfully concluded the ultimate test of a nine-year continuum of resea... Read More

Naval Space Summit Brings SECNAV, Other Senior Leaders To NPS
Apr 2, 2023
As global dependence on space-based technology continues to grow, senior leaders from throughout the Department of Defense joined Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro at the Naval Postgraduate School... Read More

Charting the Navy’s Future Course in Advanced Space Education
Mar 30, 2023
No domain more than space operations highlights the essential blend of the operational art of war – as well as the science and technology of warfare. From the very beginning of the “space race” in th... Read More

Chief of Navy Reserve Encourages NPS Winter Quarter Graduates
Mar 24, 2023
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) honored its 2023 Winter Quarter graduates during a commencement ceremony held in King Hall Auditorium, March 24. NPS alumnus Vice Adm. John Mustin, Chief of Navy R... Read More

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. Work Inducted as 25th Member of NPS Hall of Fame
Sep 29, 2022
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) welcomed the Honorable Robert O. Work, 32nd Deputy Secretary of Defense and acclaimed national security professional, into the school’s prestigious Hall of Fame dur... Read More

Discovery Day at NPS Opens Campus to Central Coast Students
May 13, 2022
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 Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) for the return o... Read More

NPS Space Systems Grad Carlos Del Toro sworn in as 78th Secretary of the Navy
Aug 13, 2021
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) alumnus Carlos Del Toro was sworn in as the nation’s 78th Secretary of the Navy, August 9. Del Toro served 26 years in uniform followed by 17 years as CEO and President... Read More

NPS Students Tackle Key Challenges of the Mobile CubeSat Network
May 18, 2021
Four Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) students, representing the Navy and Army, have each conducted thesis research to advance and address unique aspects of the Mobile CubeSat Command and Control (MC3)... Read More

NPS, NASA Team Up on “Astrobatics” Project to Advance Spacecraft Robotics
May 4, 2021
On March 17, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) students and researchers in the NPS Spacecraft Robotics Laboratory, working with NASA and the International Space Station research team, including astronau... Read More

NPS Student Invents, Patents Durable Uniform Nametags
May 3, 2021
Using his own time and resources, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Space Systems Engineering student Lt. Mitchell Kempisty ventured into unchartered waters to bring an invention of his making through t... Read More

NPS Supports FVEY Efforts to Streamline Space Technologies
Oct 27, 2020
The creation of Space Force has inspired a renewed interest in space systems research and innovation. In August, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) received funding from the DOD to lead a project to ... Read More

Open For Autonomous Business: Largest-Ever Unmanned & Robotics Systems Research Contract Awarded For NPS
Jul 29, 2020
MONTEREY, Calif. (NPS) – Military students at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) have firsthand experience with complex challenges in the fleet and the field. They come to NPS to work alongside exper... Read More

NPSAT-1 Launches Onboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy
Jun 25, 2019
The long wait finally came to an end for faculty and researchers in the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Space Systems Academic Group (SSAG). Following several external delays to a launch that was or... Read More

NPS Marine Corps students build, launch comms rocket
May 7, 2019
Randsburg, Calif. - When two Devil Dogs recently launched a rocket built from scratch over the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, they took the expeditionary power of the United States Marine Corps t... Read More

Spring Grad’s Thesis Examines Vulnerabilities in the Space Domain
Jun 19, 2018
A Spring Quarter Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) graduate received two of the school’s prestigious student awards for the master’s thesis he wrote on his way to dual master’s degrees. U.S. Army Maj. ... Read More

Hamming Award Recipient Recognized for Interdisciplinary Studies in Big Data
Mar 14, 2018
Dr. James Scrofani, Associate Professor in the NPS Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding director of the university’s Center for Multi-INT Studies (CMIS), is the winner of the... Read More

CubeSat Communications Research Competes in NASA iTech
Aug 16, 2017
Research into how small satellites, known as CubeSats, communicate with each other and the Earth performed by a team of researchers in the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Space Systems Academic Grou... Read More

Marine Corps Student Brings Elite Athlete Discipline to Her NPS Studies
Jul 14, 2017
Before Marine Corps Capt. Kate Herren was a student in the Space Systems and Operations program at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), she competed at the highest levels of her sport with the U.S. Na... Read More

NPS Honors Longtime ECE, Space Systems Professor, Herschel Loomis
Jul 11, 2017
Distinguished Professor Dr. Herschel “Hersch” Loomis Jr. was honored at his retirement ceremony by being awarded the Superior Civilian Service Award by NPS President retired Vice Adm. Ronald A. Route ... Read More

NPS’ Newest Satellite Prepared for Launch
Mar 23, 2016
Students and faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Space Systems Academic Group (SSAG) are tentatively scheduled to launch a 3-foot, 180-pound satellite dubbed NPSAT 1, as part of the next ... Read More

NPS Foundation Announces 2015 Menneken Award Winners
Jan 29, 2016
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) recently announced the recipients of the 2015 Menneken Awards. NPS Dean of Research Jeff Paduan made the announcement which included the introduction of a new facul... Read More

Space Systems Professor Assumes Position of Acting Provost
Oct 9, 2015
Space Systems Academic Group (SSAG) Professor James H. Newman officially assumed the position of Naval Postgraduate School Acting Provost, Oct. 5. As he steps into his new role on campus, he noted his... Read More

Intern Develops Small, Inexpensive Star Tracker
Sep 22, 2015
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) student Intern Julian Brown is just 21 years old, but don’t let his young age and boyish charm fool you. He is a serious scientist and is working to build a star tracki... Read More

NPS Space Systems Academic Group Honors Legacy With ‘Space for Space’
Aug 11, 2015
The Naval Postgraduate School’s Space Systems Academic Group (SSAG) recently acquired a piece of the leading edge of a wing from one of NASA’s Space Transportation System orbiter, also known as a spac... Read More

Novel Thesis Project Turned Patent Offers Satellite Solutions
Jun 24, 2015
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) alumnus Cmdr. William Crane along with NPS Professor Jim Newman, NPS Associate Professor Marcello Romano and NPS alumnus Paul Oppenheimer, an engineer with Naval Resear... Read More

International Team Solves TubeSat Enigma
Oct 8, 2014
A pair of Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) international exchange students from the University of Bundeswehr say they are the first to have ever successfully built an operational InterOrbital Systems T... Read More

NPS Special Report: Supporting the COCOMs – U.S. Southern Command
Apr 24, 2014
Throughout the U.S. Southern Command’s organization, a network of partnerships with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, Calif. on several high-visibility initiatives continues to have a d... Read More

Southcom Turns to NPS to Evaluate CubeSats for Communications Support
Jan 22, 2014
The U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) has embarked on an ambitious international CubeSat program, and turned to the Naval Postgraduate School for help. The NPS Distributed Information Systems and Expe... Read More

NPS Alumnus, Mercury 7 Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter Passes
Oct 16, 2013
Mercury 7 astronaut and NPS alumnus retired Navy Cmdr. M. Scott Carpenter passed away Thursday, Oct. 10, from complications related to a recent stroke. A graduate of NPS' General Line School in 1959, ... Read More

NPS, Hartnell College Intern Program Leads to Increased Opportunity for Regional Students
Sep 3, 2013
When the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) recently joined regional leaders, educators and students at the Hartnell College Internship Symposium, Aug. 24, the inner workings and broad impact of an ambit... Read More

NPS, SPAWAR Collaboration Explores High-Energy Laser Weapon Defense
May 9, 2013
From earth’s orbit to the world’s oceans, the U.S. Navy is dedicated to protecting the communications capabilities and manpower necessary for operations worldwide. Defense researchers are consistently... Read More

Former NPS Aeronautics Professor Named AIAA Honorary Fellow
Apr 8, 2013
Not many people are presented with the honor of being named an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Honorary Fellow. But for a former NPS distinguished professor who dedicated his... Read More

NPS CubeSat Prepares to See Space By Way of New Payload Platform
Mar 23, 2012
In many ways, it will be a monumental launch for the Space Systems Academic Group (SSAG) at NPS. After a recent successful test run, two exciting NPS projects are scheduled to head to space in August ... Read More

Students Explore Potential Use of Carbon Nanotubes in Space Propulsion
Feb 29, 2012
Like something from a sci-fi movie, researchers at NPS are looking at using carbon nanotubes to propel satellites in space. Recent NPS Space Systems Engineering (SSE) graduate Lt. Paul Camp explored t... Read More

From the Shuttle to the Lab, NPS Alumni Look for Solutions to Today’s Space Challenges
Jun 1, 2011
Naval Postgraduate School alumni and former astronauts Kent Rominger and Ken Reightler have seen time change a lot of things. The shuttle program is at its end, their days as astronauts with NASA are ... Read More

University Welcomes Top County Students for Annual Mathletics
May 23, 2011
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) opened its doors to hundreds of county math whizzes when the university hosted the 43rd Annual Monterey County Mathletics Competition, May 14. Mathletics is an ann... Read More

NPS Crushes CubeSats for DARPA Challenge
Dec 16, 2010
The Space Systems Academic Group at NPS is known for being active in developing CubeSats- small, square satellites used for space research. The satellites have become widely popular in academia as the... Read More

NPS Teams Up with NASA, Industry to Test Groundbreaking Maneuvers on Spacecraft in Orbit
Dec 10, 2010
Dazzling sun spots and stunning solar flares were just another day in the life of the Transitional Regional and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft for the past 12 years. Designed to record solar acti... Read More

PEO Space Rear Admiral Young Joins NPS’ SSAG Students for Midterm Review
Nov 10, 2010
Students in the Space Systems Academic Group (SSAG) had a unique opportunity during their Spacecraft Systems II Course (AE4831) midterm review when the Navy’s Program Executive Officer for Space Syste... Read More

University Volunteers Participate in Monterey County Fair
Sep 9, 2010
Monterey county residents were treated to the customary fair events of midway rides, fried foods, carnival games and informative exhibits at this year’s 74th annual Monterey County Fair, but were also... Read More

PEO Space Systems Chair Supports Navy’s Efforts in the Final Frontier
Sep 8, 2010
While the Navy is our nation’s seafaring service, it truly operates through every domain, be it sea or land … or space. In fact, over the past few decades, the Navy has played a major role in the deve... Read More

Professors Honored With AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award
Aug 25, 2010
During an August 3 ceremony in Toronto, Canada, NPS Professors Isaac “Mike” Ross and Fariba Fahroo were presented with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Mechanics and Contr... Read More

SpaceShipOne Pilot Brian Binnie Describes Record-Breaking Space Flight
Aug 19, 2010
In an exciting follow-up to the visit with Aviator Dick Rutan in April, the Point Lobos Section of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics presented a lecture with SpaceShipOne pilot Br... Read More

Area Students Get a Call from Orbiting Space Shuttle Discovery
Apr 13, 2010
More than 1,000 students, parents and members of the NPS community packed King Auditorium Saturday morning where they received a call from the Space Shuttle Discovery orbiting more than 200 miles into... Read More

NPS New Home for Giant Segmented-Mirror Space Telescope
Feb 18, 2010
The Naval Postgraduate School is the proud new home for the Segmented Mirror Space Telescope (SMT), designed and developed for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) as a technical demonstrator and ... Read More

Apollo 11 Hero Regales Space Systems Students, Faculty
Dec 21, 2009
Neil Armstrong’s ‘giant leap for mankind’ would have turned into tragedy had it not been for the fast thinking and courageous action of a Naval Postgraduate School distinguished alumnus, retired Navy ... Read More

NPS Astronaut Alumni Star in Centennial Air and Space Week
Aug 25, 2009
One-third of U.S. astronauts are graduates of the Naval Postgraduate School, more than any other graduate university in the world, and a large number returned to their alma mater in August for a Cente... Read More

Original Mercury 7 Astronaut, Alumnus Scott Carpenter Shares Insights with Past, Future Space Travelers
Jul 16, 2009
Naval Postgraduate School alumnus retired Navy Cmdr. M. Scott Carpenter – the second American to orbit the Earth and the world’s first astronaut/aquanaut – celebrated the 47th anniversary of his ... Read More

NPS Professor Inducted into California Astronaut Hall of Fame
Jan 23, 2009
Former NASA astronaut and Naval Postgraduate School Professor of Space Systems James Newman has been inducted into the California Astronaut Hall of Fame. The occasion for the presentation of the awar... Read More

Mini-Satellite Launcher Makes NPS Player in CubeSat Space Race
Jan 16, 2009
Like the Sputnik launch that triggered the Cold War space race, Russian miniature spacecraft launches have catalyzed the Naval Postgraduate School to design and build a revolutionary new mini-satellit... Read More

Distinguished Professor Agrawal Elected AIAA Fellow
Mar 16, 2008
Sometimes it does take a rocket scientist to be elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Naval Postgraduate School Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and ... Read More