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USMC at NPS - Thesis Information
Message
From the Marine Representative
The
NPS Marine Representative solicits thesis topics from you, our Marine Corps
customer, on a
continuous basis. In addition to building
a highly educated officer corps, the NPS master's program also offers a unique
opportunity for our customer-base to tap into a talented pool of officers
for the purpose of analyzing and researching areas of critical importance to the
Corps and
delivering quality solutions to some of our most pressing problems. In the past,
our NPS officers have contributed significantly to solving our Corps most
challenging issues across the spectrum of warfighting; from logistics, to
manpower, to systems engineering and software testing/design. It is absolutely imperative that the NPS student population
serve the needs of our Corps research requirements during their thesis selection
process. This is an essential ingredient of the NPS program. Historically, I
feel this process has been too ad-hoc and needs to be centralized and optimized to satisfy this
important need.
A team of
Marine Corps students has captured the requirements for establishing a
one-stop shopping entry portal for research requirements and for tracking
progress of theses and classroom projects initiated by the customer base.
The NPS Dean of Research and Associate Provost for Academic Affairs are
partnering to help us develop a professional, web-based capability for you, our
primary customers at HQMC, MCCDC, Systems Command, MCTSSA and the Operating
Forces, to register your research requirements with NPS; the next step being the
NPS review of your emerging requirements and then finding an appropriate curriculum/student to
accomplish your research or project needs. The system we envision should
have the ability for you, our customer, to review progress and provide rudder
guidance thereby ensuring the research does not occur in a vacuum and miss the
target.
I
will post updated information on this website once firm dates for fielding this
capability are developed. If you are a
stakeholder in this process and want to contact me directly, you can send me
email at Marine Corps Rep
Email.
Semper Fidelis
C. L. Oros
LtCol, USMC
Marine Corps Representative
Naval Postgraduate School
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