The Applied Design Center for Technology at the Naval Postgraduate School

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 (NPS) is the only graduate institution in the nation that serves, develops, and educates students with operational experience. NPS is one of the few places in the world where warfighters work alongside expert faculty on interdisciplinary new technologies to solve the toughest challenges facing the military. To build on its long legacy in graduating future leaders of the Navy and the joint forces, NPS is undergoing a transformation to produce students who adapt to a highly uncertain future and who 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 Vision

The Applied Design Center for Technology

In order to best educate and prepare NPS students for 21st century warfare, a modern, state-of-the art, educational venue is required. The NPS Applied Design Center for Technology, will enable multi-disciplinary, project-based learning that creates warfighting solutions at the speed of relevance. The US will win future wars by outthinking our enemies. The ADCT will enable multi-disciplinary, technologically grounded, project-based innovation.

Combining the latest in architectural initiatives and immersive technology, the ADCT will be an incubator for advanced warfighting solutions up to the classified level. Investing in the ADCT today will yield highly impactful warfighting dividends, essential to US security in the 21st century.

STRENGTHEN NPS CORE:

NPS’ core curricula must develop the technical competencies necessary for mid-career professionals in their primary warfighting duties. Faculty will have more flexibility to develop curricula that is modular, accessible and pushing the edge of pedagogical innovation.

ENHANCE NPS COMPETITIVENESS

Advanced new technologies, not available anywhere else in the DOD, will provide unique problem-solving capabilities for multidisciplinary teams of military professionals, industry, and academia.

INCREASE NPS IMPACT

NPS will be fully optimized as the Department of the Navy’s applied research university by accelerating concepts to capability by complementing where the Navy is focusing its R&D Investment.

The Facility

The vision for the future of the organization will be launched from, and grounded within, a new physical facility. Deliberately designed to prioritize collaboration, hands-on experimentation, advanced analytics, autonomous technologies, increasingly classified work and immersive demonstrations, this facility will be optimized to create solutions with direct relevance to the fleet, while also sustaining long-term thinking for the future of the Navy and broader Department of Defense.