NPS at a Glance Facts & Figures Heritage of NPS Virtual Tour Campus Map (authentication required) (PDF) Directions to NPS Home >>  About NPS >>  Growing New Leaders Growing a New Generation of Leaders for Tomorrow’s Military Mission : “To provide relevant and unique advanced education and research programs that increase the combat effectiveness of United States and Allied armed forces and enhance the security of the United States.” The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) as the Navy’s corporate university is: 1. Essential to Navy and DoD for ensuring combat effectiveness 2. Integral to joint and combined professional military education 3. Linked to the Unified Combatant Commanders and their requirements 4. Vital to other national security organizations, agencies & nations for national security 5. The nation’s national security research university Essential to the Navy and DoD for ensuring combat effectiveness • NPS offers education in Monterey and around the world with Masters and PhD degrees, and a full array of short courses, certificates, executive education, and mobile education. • NPS provides engineering, technical, analytical, managerial, and national security education and research programs not available at civilian institutions to the Department of the Navy, DoD, or the national security organizations. • NPS provides engineering, technical, analytical, managerial, and national security education and research programs not available at civilian institutions to the Department of the Navy, DoD, or the national security organizations. • The DoD Office of Force Transformation sponsors a NPS chair and course development in one of the first programs in Transformation Education and Research,, through the NPS Cebrowski Institute of Information Innovation & Superiority. Integral to joint and combined professional military education • The student body of NPS reflects the operating environment. By 2006, 1800 military officers, defense civilians, enlisted, defense contractors, and other agency representatives from the United States and other nations will be studying in resident programs at NPS. Half will be naval officers. • Another 8000 or more students will benefit from short courses, continuing education courses, and degree or certificate programs around the world. • NPS is connected with many defense and civilian university partnerships allowing NPS to deliver tailored defense-related education when and where it is needed. Notable examples: • The Air Force Institute of Technology and NPS provide education that allows the conceptualization, development and use of weapons systems by our military forces. • Naval War College for Joint Professional Military Education. • Johns Hopkins University for Systems Engineering. • University of Maryland, Smith School of Business for a defense-related MBA. • Stanford for homeland defense, bioterrorism research, and teaching • UC Santa Barbara for education and research Linked to the Unified Combatant Commanders and their requirements • NPS works closely with the Unified Combatant Commanders providing relevant education and research critical to their combat missions. NPS faculty works with the UCC’s on real world problems, on-site and with students back on the main campus. NPS faculty provides about $75 million of research to the Navy, Unified Combatant Commanders and the Services. • Examples of NPS support include: • USNORTHCOM (Northern Command) -Homeland Defense and Security • USPACOM desk, linking research and operational efforts to the Pacific Command activities • USCENTCOM Counter-terrorism programs in support of PACOM and CENTCOM initiatives • USJFCOM- NPS faculty and students provided direct support to Millennium Challenge 02 for Joint Forces Command • USSOCOM (Special Ops) curriculum and related research on UAV’s, tactical decision aids, wireless technologies, netcentric warfighting advances • USSTRATCOM (Strategic Command) Joint Information Operations Center of Excellence • USEUCOM- Graduate ed for National Guard division staffs deploying to Europe Command countries • USCOMPACFLT desk, antisubmarine warfare research addresses highest priority issues of C3F. • NPS houses three institutes in: 1. Modeling and Simulation, 2. Information Innovation and Superiority, and 3. Systems Engineering. Each conducts an annual integrated multi-disciplinary study with faculty and students to address real military issues and problems, most often under the sponsorship of military commands. The results are supplied back to the fleets and commands and are often used in subsequent operations or recommended for continuing study. Vital to DoD’s interactions with other agencies and nations for national security • NPS supports the continuing global war against terrorism and both homeland and international security efforts through education and research. • NPS designated by Deputy Secretary of Defense as the Joint Center of Excellence for Information Operations education and research, sponsored by U.S. Strategic Command. • NPS is designated DoD coordination point for Maritime Domain Protection research, and member, Senior Steering Group. • NPS is the Center of Education Excellence for the Information Professional community, named by commander of NETWARCOM, coordinating efforts in advanced technologies, knowledge management, advanced communications, intelligence, and cryptology. • NPS programs strengthen democratic civil-military relationships in 85 countries throughout the world: • National Security Decision-making in Indonesia • National Security Strategy Development in Colombia • MoD reorganization in Taiwan • Security Building in Afghanistan • Defense restructuring in Dominican Republic and other countries • NPS teaches a classified graduate education program for National Security Agency • A university of choice for National Reconnaissance Office • Homeland Defense and Security graduate program and mobile short courses for the Department of Homeland Security, NORTHCOM, the National Guard, state governors, other state and federal officials