Climate Change

• Navy Artic Roadmap
• Adaption and Resilience
• Climate and Security

Crowd Sourcing

• Crowd Sourcing for software verification 

Cyber Adventurers

• Off shoot of STEM --  Peter Denning and Sue Higgins – assisted by 2 NSF grants 2006 and 2009
• Excite K-12 students about CS, addressing Navy CS & STEM concerns
• After school and summer programs
• Mentors: CSUMB undergrads, high school students
• Cyber security games – Peterson and Gondree
• Became part of mission of Military Cyber Professionals Association (Maj Joe Billingsley, USA)
• Transitioned to NPS Cyber Club and local non-profit, Lyceum
• NPS students starting to grow Cyber Adventurer models at follow-on duty stations

Design Thinking

• Nancy Roberts and John Arquilla (DA), 2012
• Developed first NPS design studio in CI, modeled after Silicon Valley IDEO and Stanford D-Center
• Especially useful for finding solutions to wicked problems
• Initial project: Army 2020 (GEN Odierno)
• Design approach increasing in classes and projects across campus

Global Public Policy

2008

• Karen Guttieri (GSBPP)
• Helping USN/DOD think through public policy and civil-military issues in military ops
• Developed early multi-disciplinary course; now Masters curriculum for Civil Affairs community
• Now part of GSBPP; Guttieri recently received award from Civil Affairs community

Hastily Formed Networks (HFN)

2004 - Present

• John Gibson has taken over HFN since Brian Steckler retired in 2015.
• Suitcase Internet comms for HA/DR
• HA/DR is now a Navy strategic objective.
• Student teams have gone to Tsunami, Katrina, Haiti, Philippines, CA wildfires, and numerous exercises.
• HFN is a visible “trademark” of NPS.

Innovation Adoption

• Peter Denning (CS) and Nick Dew (GSBPP), 2009
• Adoption is the real challenge of innovation – design is the “easy” part
• Big challenge in Navy to overcome bureaucratic inertia and maintain leadership in use of technologies
• E-week workshops “innovation by design” since 2009

JIEDDO

2009

• Col Andy Hernandez (OR)
• Detecting and destroying IEDs and the networks that built them.
• Launched an interdisciplinary cross campus IED study initiative.
• Transitioned into National Security Institute up to completion.

Gurminder Singh, and John Gibson (CS), started in 2010

• Exploring a Supporting Arms Coordinator Concept for Cyber Fires
  • Field Testing of Satellites
  • Coalition Field Exercises in Europe
  • DARPA for the Adaptable Sensor System Program
  • Tactical Chat Capability

Geroffrey Xie (CS), started 2010

• Initiated by NPS Student Capt Josh Dixon (USMC) who had duel major; Business - CS
• Make MWC a seamless part of the USMC & Army field operations
• Involved faculty and students from IS, SE, CS, DA, ECE, GSBPP, TRADOC
• Increase Communication capabilities while maintaining security/reliability and reducing overall costs.

Mobile Devices

2004 - Present

• Gurminder Singh (CS)
• Moving essential computations from mainframes over to portable devices.
• Grown from an early curiosity to a major theme today.
• Partners with the CORE lab.

Natural Language Processing

• Craig Martell (CS), started 2007
• Identifying authors and intentions from captured chat texts
• Big issue in data mining
• Detect terror networks from chat
• Measure learning in MOOCs

Navy Tactical Cloud

• Warren Yu (CI), started 2011
• Helping Navy transition to cloud services and cloud operations
• Grew strong partnership with Fleet Numerical Meteorology & Oceanography Command (FNMOC), Monterey, Navy’s largest supercomputing faculty
• Involvement by faculty in IS, CS, OR, DA, ITACS

Next Generation Leaders

Sue Higgins (Leaders in Virtual Worlds)

By using immersive virtual environments as learning platforms:

• To bridge cultures
• Improve leadership
• Enhance teamwork
• Using immersive virtual environments as learning platforms to help student to bridge the perceived culture gap between weekend reservists and those who serve full time.

Sue Higgins (Next Generation of Leaders)

• Grow Senior officers capable of thinking strategically in the world that will exist in 20 or more years
• Digital technologies everywhere 
• Most Operations are digital
• Adversaries operate by swarming in small networks hidden in Internet
• Full of uncertainties, surprises, disruptions

STEM

• Alison Kerr (CI), started 2005
• Launched summer intern program with Hartnell CC Salinas, Hispanic students, 1st generation Americans
• Navy encourages outreach to develop young people who might later engage with Navy
• Wide participation across campus
• Grew from 2 interns (2005) to > 100 (2013)
• Top Navy STEM Intern Lab
• Transition to DOR in 2013
• PhDs & Polka Dots
• nps.edu/stem

Technology Transfer

2011

• Peter Denning (CS)
• Helped DARPA to evaluate effectiveness at transferring new technology to their military customers.
• Involvement included:  Nick Dew, Dan Nussbaum, and students from CS, IS, OR, and GSBPP.
• DARPA had a 30% success rate, which is 26% higher than the industry standard of 4%.
• The GSBPP faculty continues the technology transfer research with other sponsors.

TIDES

• Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support (TIDES) 

Valued Information at the Right Time (VIRT)

2007 - Present

• Rick Hayes-Roth (IS)
• Reducing cognitive overload from information glut associated with big data
• Dan Boger continues the project in IS Dept: the concern is growing
• Initial sponsor USMC, now Intel Community

World Wide consortium for the Grid (C2COG)

• Chris Gunderson (IS), started 2004
• Confederation of DOD units to promote working standards and test ranges for the next generation of defense Internets
• Cooperation with NCOIC, Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, with similar aims for defense contractors
• Transitioned to W2COG.ORG, a 501(c)(3)