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

Data Science

• Emerging wave, 2013
• The science behind big data
• Driven by accelerating trend of digitization of almost everything
• Generate, collect, search, analyze, mine exabytes of data
• Navy must master this digital world for operational superiority
• Cooperation of data analysts, system architects, and application specialists

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.

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

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

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.

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)