Welcome to the National Security Institute

The National Security Institute is a partnership of three entities – the Naval Postgraduate School, University of California, Santa Barbara and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – each recognizing that the new era of research and development will require the complete engagement of talent from academia, national laboratories and the private sector.

Under NSI, a superior class of joint research programs is being created from the combination of intellectual and technological capabilities of these three institutions. New and innovative research programs will create unparalleled opportunities, and will attract the best M.S. and Ph.D. students and post doctoral fellows all focused within the critical skills areas identified by the Departments of Defense, Energy and Homeland Security. These activities will lead many of these graduate students and post-doctoral fellows into careers that support national security science and technology in national laboratories or defense and security industries.

NSI Mission

The mission of the National Security Institute (NSI) is to combine the scholarship and expertise of top scientific institutions in service to national, homeland and global security, while engaging the next generation of graduate students in vital defense and homeland security research and development, field experimentation, and interdisciplinary student research.

NSI Partners: 

	Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is an academic institution whose emphasis is on study and research programs relevant to the Navy's interests, as well as to the interests of other arms of the Department of Defense. The programs are designed to accommodate the unique requirements of the military.
	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is one of the nation’s foremost applied-science and engineering laboratories. LLNL’s defining responsibility is national security, with missions that include stockpile stewardship, nonproliferation, and multidisciplinary research to enhance national security.
	University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) houses eight national centers and institutes, with a top-twenty engineering school, five Noble laureates, and substantial federal funding in critical research. *

* NPS recognizes the contributions of its academic partners in this project. In accordance with federal ethics regulations, however, NPS and the federal government do not endorse any non-Federal University, its products or services.