The Fifth Generation Maintainer mission explores the use of augmented actuality to help upkeep processes, documentation and high quality assurance throughout the Naval enterprise.
The Mobile CubeSat Command and Control (MC3) floor station website on the Naval Postgraduate School.
The NPS Foundation funds research initiatives that speed up the adoption of new capabilities into the Naval companies and the broader Department of Defense.
— Karen Hargrove, NPS Foundation Trustee, Funding Committee Chair
MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, November 8, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Naval Postgraduate School Foundation just lately invested a complete of $145,000 in defense research initiatives and education programs led by Naval Postgraduate School school that help the exploration and software of critical rising technologies for nationwide safety.
“Our Defense Innovation Fund and Seed Program allow private funding to quickly and directly propel innovation in the Department of Defense and catalyze partnerships between industry, academia and government,” stated Karen Hargrove, NPS Foundation Trustee and chair of the Foundation’s Funding Committee. “The myriad of threats facing our nation are diverse and complex. We must work together to advance our national security in the face of new and evolving challenges.”
The Naval Postgraduate School Foundation makes use of a aggressive, enterprise capital funding mannequin to pick out SEED and Seedling initiatives which might be on the forefront of responding to the brand new threats going through our nation. Earlier this 12 months, the NPS Foundation invested $625,000 in research and facility enhancements although the Foundation’s Defense Innovation Fund. This second spherical of funding for 2022 helps Naval Postgraduate School priorities and accelerates the adoption of new capabilities into the Naval companies and the broader Department of Defense.
The Foundation supplied $75,000 in Seedling funding to help the Fifth Generation Maintainer mission, led by Dr. Imre Balogh and the NPS MOVES Institute, which explores the use of augmented actuality to help upkeep processes, documentation and high quality assurance throughout the Naval enterprise. The research workforce already has two patents granted, with seven extra in course of, and is working with a quantity of Naval Warfare Centers. The funding helps the continued research and improvement of processes and technologies which might be adaptable, scalable, and useful resource environment friendly.
The following seven initiatives acquired $10,000 every in SEED funding:
• Leveraging Commercial Capabilities for Spacecraft Design, underneath the course of Dr. Wenschel Lan, will discover the use of present nationwide technical means (NTM) methods utilizing disaggregated property to offer improved timing accuracy in help of house and distributed maritime operations. NPS’ Small Satellite Lab goals to collaborate with TrustPoint to develop a payload prototype and design a spacecraft mission to research the feasibility and constancy of this cutting-edge know-how towards ground-based timing sources.
• Autonomous Small Satellite Ground Station Environmental Modeling, underneath the course of Dr. Giovanni Minelli and Noah Weitz, will check autonomous information assortment via monitoring {hardware} and machine studying algorithms on the Mobile CubeSat Command and Control (MC3) floor station website at NPS to enhance situational consciousness, cut back troubleshooting durations, and check and enhance at present current software program and infrastructure inside the house area. This mission additionally permits integration and testing of Microsoft’s Azure Stack Edge {hardware} as half of the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between NPS and Microsoft, additional increasing machine studying capabilities at distant floor websites and in the cloud.
• Cryophones: Air Deployable Arctic ASW Sensors, underneath the course of Ben Reeder and John Joseph, seeks to additional develop a brand new kind of air-deployed sensor that takes benefit of the acoustic propagation physics of ice to raised help undersea warfare operations and allow novelty capabilities aligned with the U.S. Navy’s 2021 Arctic Strategy, A Blue Arctic: A Strategic Blueprint for the Arctic.
• Building Education Programs from Required Competencies utilizing AI, underneath the course of Dr. Miriam Alves and Dr. Dennis Lester, seeks to specify an progressive strategy to evaluation and re-design inter- and multidisciplinary education programs utilizing synthetic intelligence and intelligence augmentation to adapt the education choices to present and rising warfighter’s competency wants. This mission helps the 78th Secretary of the Navy’s strategic steering “to develop leaders with the warfighting rigor, intellectual dynamism, and innovative creativity to maintain strategic advantage against competitors and global adversaries.”
• Asynchronous Distance Learning for Naval Students, underneath the course of Dr. Don Brutzman, focuses heading in the right direction adaptation for asynchronous studying by Naval officers and NPS graduates, offering choices for evaluation and Distance Learning credit score by potential college students, encouraging graduate research.
• Open-Source System Modeling Library, underneath the course of Dr. Ray Madachy, seeks to additional the open-source software program Python Modeling Library (PyML) for extensive adoption of engineers throughout disciplines in help of digital engineering apply, educating and research in the DOD.
• Communication and Disinfection Lighting System, underneath the course of Dr. Weilan Su, explores the event of a sensible lighting system based mostly on LEDs with UV and communication capabilities that concurrently sanitize the air. This preliminary funding helps the event of an in depth research proposal and preliminary research.
In addition to supporting Naval Postgraduate School priorities, initiatives comparable to these exploring house methods technologies and undersea warfare technologies align with the DOD’s Technology Vision, the Chief of Naval Operations NAVPLAN 2022 and the 2022 National Defense Strategy to extend collaboration with industrial companions to enhance current capabilities and foster fast future functionality employment.
“The SEED and Seedling funding from the NPS Foundation allows NPS to be highly flexible and responsive to emerging threats and innovative technologies. This support is critical to ensuring that we maintain a competitive advantage over our near-peer adversaries,” stated Dr. Kevin Smith, NPS Vice Provost for Research. “The opportunities provided by the NPS Foundation to engage and partner with industry has greatly expanded our capabilities. These relationships are recognized as mutually beneficial and provide a unique opportunity in support of the warfighter.”
The NPS Foundation’s Defense Innovation Fund strikes initiatives from idea to functionality by offering the preliminary funding to develop initiatives to the purpose the place they’ll compete for federal spending. The SEED program makes use of a enterprise capital mannequin to help research initiatives that tackle operational challenges and instructional development. If the preliminary research reveals ample progress and potential, these initiatives can develop into “Seedlings” and obtain extra funding. The funding in early-stage research creates alternatives for the Naval Postgraduate School to develop capabilities properly earlier than the army companies uncover a vulnerability or alternative. By funding early-stage initiatives, concepts from some of our nation’s brightest are remodeled into scalable and world-changing options for defense, know-how, vitality, local weather and extra.
Desiree Dillehay
NPS Foundation
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