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The Naval Innovation Center at NPS

Great Power Competition with China demands innovation, speed and agility. The Naval Innovation Center at NPS delivers warfighting solutions faster, smarter and more effectively than current processes allow and addresses the priorities that matter most to the Indo-Pacific theater and beyond. The facility will enable concept to capability through the latest technologies to prototype, iterate, test and deliver solutions into the hands of the warfighter at speed and scale.
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Combining the latest in architectural initiatives and immersive technology, the Naval Innovation Center at NPS will be an incubator for advanced warfighting solution at all levels of classified research, from controlled unclassified information to top-secret compartmented information. NPS is at the nexus of academia, industry and the DOD making it the right place to develop, foster and lead a culture of innovation within the Department of Defense. Investing in the Naval Innovation Center today will yield highly impactful warfighting dividends, essential to U.S. security in the 21st century.

Value of the Naval Innovation Center at NPS  
Countering China

The NIC at NPS is a direct response to the growing threat posed by China, accelerating the development of emerging technologies critical to maintaining U.S. advantage across the Pacific and beyond​

Assuring Deterrence

By equipping warfighters with cutting-edge capabilities and operational insight, the NIC at NPS strengthens our ability to prevent and respond to threats—ensuring credible, forward-looking deterrence in contested environments

EnhancING Lethality

The NIC at NPS delivers mission-ready solutions and a tech-enabled DOD workforce that enhances the lethality of the joint forces and provides a decisive edge in future conflicts​

The Naval Postgraduate School

The Naval Postgraduate School offers world-class graduate degree programs to eligible U.S. military students, international students, and DOD civilian employees. These experienced warfighters work alongside expert faculty on interdisciplinary technologies to solve today’s toughest challenges facing the military, while ensuring the technological leadership of tomorrow’s uniformed services.

The Naval Postgraduate School is focused on becoming the Nation’s leading institution for defense higher education and applied research, delivering transformative solutions and innovative leaders for decisive advantage. As a part of this effort, the NPS Foundation engaged Applied Minds (AMI) to support the creation of a forward-leaning vision for the school, and to design an innovative facility to turn that vision into reality.

The Naval Innovation Center at NPS

THE FUTURE OF WARFARE IS CHANGING.
Tomorrow’s conflicts will be more integrated, autonomous, and agile than any in our history. Already, our nation’s adversaries exploit the seams between domains to disrupt and preempt effective action. This myriad of threats requires the US military to be able to deter and defeat enemies in multiple domains: sea, sub-sea, air, land, space and cyber. Victory in multi-domain battle, across the range of military operations, requires naval forces manned, trained and equipped to achieve competitive overmatch against our foes. The divisions that may have once served to professionalize the force now hinder the ability of the Department of Defense to integrate complex systems to dominate a distributed battlespace.
THE US WILL WIN FUTURE WARS BY OUTTHINKING OUR ENEMIES.
The Naval Postgraduate School serves, develops and educates students with operational experience. NPS is one of the few places in the world where warfighters work alongside expert faculty and industry partners on new technologies to solve the toughest challenges facing the military. To build on its long legacy in graduating leaders of the Navy and the joint forces, NPS is undergoing a transformation to produce warfighters and solutions that adapt to a highly uncertain future and can accomplish complex, multi-domain missions.
THIS VISION, SUSTAINED BY THE RIGHT PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT, WILL ENABLE NPS TO FORGE A FUTURE WHERE THE SCHOOL’S STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE CENTRAL TO THE SUCCESS OF THE NAVAL AND JOINT FORCES.

The Facility




The vision for the future of the Naval Postgraduate School includes a purposefully designed facility to accelerate development of research concepts from “idea to impact.” Deliberately designed to prioritize collaboration, hands-on experimentation, autonomous technologies, increasingly classified work and immersive demonstrations, this facility will be optimized to create solutions with direct relevance to the fleet, while sustaining long-term thinking for the future of the Navy and broader Department of Defense.
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The Naval Innovation Center reflects NPS’ commitment to ensure security, efficiency and stewardship as the Navy’s science and technology research university.

As research projects become more applied and classified, the Naval Innovation Center will enable students, faculty and partners to build virtually, prototype physically, and test and iterate rapidly, in order to deliver innovative solutions.
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Rendering of a room with many people dressed in military uniform sitting at computers. There are multiple screens on the wall and some people are looking at them. There are a few people walking around and there's a large whiteboard with a large table, some of the cells are filled with red
Rendering of a large, multipurpose room. Five people are seated at curved, long tables looking at a person standing next to a screen with multiple windows open with different information. In the distance there is another set of long tables with another whiteboard in front of them.
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Modeling and Simulation Centers
  • Immersive Dome
  • Systems Simulation Labs
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Rapid Prototyping Lab
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Surge and Response Labs
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Project Assembly Lab / shared workshop spaces
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Wargaming Center
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Collaboratories and Flexible Lab Spaces 
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Telepresence pods for virtual and blended learning
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Courtyard with outdoor amphitheatre
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Project Assembly Lab / shared workshop spaces
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Interdisciplinary, multipurpose action labs
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Lobby area with permanent and touring exhibit spaces
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Auditorium and Conference Area
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Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI), Special Access Program (SAP) capable spaces
  • Multi-level Sensitive
  • Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF)
  • Classrooms
  • Mission Operations Center (MOC)
  • Conference rooms
  • Action labs
  • Secure video conferencing rooms
These images represent two conceptual designs for the future Naval Innovation Center at NPS. (Left) Developed by Applied Minds, Inc. to illustrate the original vision for the building. (Right) Developed by Jacobs as a part of the RFP development process. The final design may draw from one or both concepts and will be determined through a best-value design-build contract to be awarded next year.
Interdisciplinary
Applied
Classified
Collaborative

National Security is a Shared Responsibility.

The Naval Innovation Center at NPS relies on a network of stakeholders with equity in the technological advancement of our military, a transformation in professional military education, and our Nation maintaining an intellectual and technological edge over our adversaries. As a jointly-resourced initiative, the Naval Innovation Center will require funding from government entities as well as private donations and corporate partners to outfit the facility with state-of-the-art technology. The Naval Postgraduate School Foundation has invested over $2 Million in the planning and development of the Naval Innovation Center vision and schematic designs.

To learn more about Naval Innovation Center at NPS partnership opportunities, contact Rich Patterson or Todd Lyons.
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