Naval Postgraduate School - Research Centers & Projects

Research Centers & Projects

Current Projects		Affiliated Centers and Projects

	Accelerated Technology Transfer		Center of Excellence for Information Operations (CEIO)
	Rapid implementation of technologies and markedly improve success rate of adoptions. Peter Denning, Dennis Volpano, Dan Nussbaum, Nick Dew		Electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological warfare, deception, operations security. John Arquilla

	Cross Sector Operations, Maritime Domain Awareness		Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research
	Military-civilian cooperation in crises and disaster response. Technologies and processes for maritime awareness. Scot Miller		Multilevel security, cyber defense, PKI, high assurance architectures, trusted kernels and tools, secure systems engineering Cynthia Irvine

	Digital Evaluation and Exploitation Project (DEEP)		Center of Excellence for Information Professionals
	Document and media exploitation and computer forensics Simson Garfinkel		Building a community of change agents through Senior and Junior Officer Courses. RDM Andy Singer (Ret.)
	Field Guide for the Science of Computing		Center for Cyber Warfare
	Develop a body of content that presents the deep insight of scientific theories of computing. Peter Denning,		Research in support of graduate education for the cyber workforce Jeff Knorr

	Hastily Formed Networks		Center for Positive Change
	Networks of multiple organizations formed on short notice for crises, disaster relief and humanitarian assistance Brian Steckler		Organizational Transformation. Positive approaches to building cooperative capacity. Frank Barrett

	Military Wireless Communications (MWC)		Common Operational Research Environment Lab (CORE)
	Increase communication capabilities while maintaining security/reliability and reducing overall costs Geoff Xie		Support field operatives engaged in irregular warfare. Nancy Roberts

	Natural Language Processing		Mobile Devices and Communications
	Topic detection, sentiment analysis, detection of persuasion, subjectivity detection, parsing chat/blogs, conversational thread extraction in chat, authorship attribution in chat and blogs Craig Martell		Secure, self-configuring mobile networks, intermittent communications, battle PDAs Gurminder Singh

	Rapid Pro VIRT		Network-Centric Infrastructure
	Valued Information at the Right Time, an architecture for stopping information glut. Rick Hayes-Roth		Assess, manage and mitigate associated risks with engineering complexities and practical importance of networks David Alderson

	World Wide Consortium for the Grid		Network-Centric Systems Engineering Lab
	W2Cog, an open technology development platform to field netcentric capability. http://w2cog.org Chris Gunderson		Analysis for automated situational awareness and testing. Rachel Goshorn

			Terrorism and Irregular Warfare (CTIW)
			Operation and policy analysis of domestic and international terrorism, infrastructure threats. David Tucker and Glenn Robinson

Programs and projects that emerged from within The Cebrowski Institute

	Title	Sponsor

	2007 Humanitarian Outreach Mission	SPAWAR-Charleston
	ASN RDA CHSENG NR-KP Implementation	OASN
	Assessment Federation Support	SPAWAR
	Automated Media Exploitation	DISA
	Bandwidth Allocation Management	PEO C4I
	Broad Based Maritime Collaboration Capability	SPAWAR
	C2 Rapid Prototype Capability	SPAWAR
	CANES SOA Based Security Architecture	SPAWAR
	CDLS Review	SPAWAR SYSCOM
	Challenges in Technology Transition	DARPA AEO
	Civil Affairs Planner Course 351st	Civil Affairs Command
	Collaboration Laboratory (CoLab) -	OSD
	Complex Operations Case Study Series	OSD
	Consortium for the Grid	OASD, ASD NII, OFT
	Corporate Strategic Communications	ONR
	CPATH CDEF: Resparking Innovation	NSF
	Cross Sector Community Collaboration	USSTRATCO
	Decision Superiority in Cyberspace	DON CIO
	Definition of Metrics for MDA	SPAWAR
	Disruptive Business Technologies	ONR
	Educational Opportunities to Support	OFT
	The Energy Conversation	ONR
	Emergency Communications	Dept of Homeland Security
	Energy Consensus Community Website	OFT
	EST An Enterprise Center of Excellence	USMC - MARCOSYSCOM
	Field Guide to the Science of Computation	NSF
	Educational Film Symposium - artlcle
	Global Wargame 2009 SPAWAR Engagement Task	SPAWAR
	Hastily Formed Networks Research Group	OSD, OASD NII
	IA Through Scholarship & Service	NSF
	Integrating Cell Phone Technology with Marine Corps Tactical Networks	USMC - MARCORSYSCOM
	Intregration of Cellular Technology	SPAWAR
	IO Research	NSGC
	JITC Netcentric Certification Office	JITC
	JITS NCO	DISA
	JOTARS: Joint Online Thesis/Research System	SPAWAR and NSA
,	Maritime Domain Awareness	PEO C4I
	Military Wireless Communications	USMC - MARCORSYSCOM, TRADOC
	Netcentric Certification Office	DISA, JITC
	NPS-Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) Research Program)	JIEDDO
	RapidPro Virt	USMC - MARCORSYSCOM
	Rebooting Computing	NSF
	Recognizing Patterns of Anomie	ONR
	Research Support for Hyknoco	ONR
	Research/Curriculum Development Project	US Army War College & Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute
	Security and Global Enterprises (SAGE)
	Seminar & Research into Complex Future	NIMA
	Society for Organizational Learning	US Army War College
	Stability Course Engagement	Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
	Strategic Change Communications	ONR
	System Dynamics/ Real Options Analysis	Boeing
	Systems Strategy Planning	NAWC-Aircraft Division
	Transformation Chair	OSD
	Transformational C2 SVC F/Understanding	SPAWAR-Charleston, SSC-Atlantic
	Trust Cooperation in HFN	USCG Air Station Kodiak, Alaska
	Web 2.0 Information Sharing	DAU