CSRS Offers Unique Educational Programs for Disaster Relief, Peacekeeping Practitioners

Participants from the Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies (CSRS) workshop, “Tools for Cross-Cultural Understanding,” congregate at the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) rose garden during a three-day conference in June. CSRS, a center within the NPS School of International Graduate Studies, provides cross-community learning programs for practitioners who engage in international peacekeeping, reconstruction and stabilization efforts. Photo by Nico Mavris. Full story

Sailor to Run Marathon in Support of Cancer Research

Personnel Specialist 1^st Class (SW/SCW/AW) Forrest Pacitti, the leading petty officer for the Customer Service Desk Monterey, runs along the Del Monte Lake jogging trail at the Naval Postgraduate School. Pacitti is currently training for the Portland Marathon with a nonprofit organization that raises money for cancer research. U.S. Navy photo by Javier Chagoya.  Full story

Boeing Phantom Works Displays Cutting-Edge Technology at NPS

Corporate leadership, senior program managers and engineers from Boeing’s famed Phantom Works and Integrated and Advanced Defense Systems divisions, including more than a dozen NPS alumni now in top positions with the defense contractor, hosted the Boeing Technology Exposition and Exchange at the Naval Postgraduate School, Aug. 7. The purpose of the expo, on the theme “Transitioning Technology into Capabilities for the Warfighter,” was to share the company’s advanced technology, operations and best practices with NPS students and faculty, identify new areas of collaboration aligned with the NPS-Boeing Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, and build relationships with DoD’s future acquisition leaders. At the Expo, five NPS alumni now with the company joined forces to hoist a Boeing “Scan Eagle” tactical warfighting support UAV, left to right:  Paul Bloch (Operations Research, 1973), now with Boeing’s modeling and simulations requirements; Dave Manser (Space Systems Engineering, 1993), now program manager for Boeing’s Lab Net; Matthew Finlon (Operations Research, 1991), now manager for Boeing’s platform effectiveness and survivability; John Hearing (Space Systems Operations, 1991), now manager of tactical unmanned aircraft systems; and Chuck Marashian (Administrative Science, 1982), now with Boeing’s advanced Navy command and control systems.  Bloch was Hearing’s thesis adviser while both were at NPS.  U.S. Navy photo by Javier Chagoya.  Full story

NPS Attends ONR S&T 2008 Conference

Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. William E. Landay III provides the opening presentation during the Office of Naval Research 2008 Science and Technology Partnership Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington D.C. The conference focused on current research and targets technology areas for future investments. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released) Full story

NPS Professor Publishes Politics of Space Security Book

Professor Clay Moltz, a Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) National Security Affairs Department faculty member, poses next to his recently published book, The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests (Stanford University Press, 2008). Moltz wrote his book after studying the implications of space becoming an increasingly crowded, and perhaps dangerous, place. (Navy photo by Javier Chagoya) Full story

Mechanical Engineering Student
Receives Bronze Star Medal

Lt. Michael Jay Tozzi, a surface warfare officer and Mechanical Engineering master’s student at the Naval Postgraduate School, received the Bronze Star Medal for exceptionally meritorious service during Operation Iraqi Freedom, at a special ceremony in the International Flag Garden, Aug. 5.  “I sat on the Navy Awards Board before coming to NPS, and I can tell you that for a U.S. Navy lieutenant to receive this Army award is rare and very noteworthy,” said Dean of Students Capt. Kathryn Hobbs in officiating the ceremony.  “In fact, it’s something pretty miraculous.”  U.S. Navy photo by Javier Chagoya.  Full story