Technology Workshop Supports CNO's Unified Maritime Strategy
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In This Issue: Brook appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Global pdate NpS Security Cooperation Center dedicated Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California December 2007 Technology Workshop Supports CNO’s Unified Maritime Strategy By Dr. Phillip Pace The next TIO will be offered April 21 – May 9, 2008. Topics that In announcing the new unified will be included in this workshop maritime strategy in October, include: quantum information Chief of Naval Operations Ad- systems, principles of operational miral Gary Roughead noted that testing and experimentation of the strategy “codifies longstanding weapon systems, unmanned aerial challenges and reflects a commit- vehicles and payloads, advanced ment by the maritime services to low probability of intercept radar work cooperatively with friends, waveforms, detection signal pro- partners and allies to realize a cessing, rail gun technologies, ad- shared vision of mutual security, vanced networking constructs and stability and prosperity.” decision making theory. The Electrical & Computer The course will also include a Engineering Department has fieldtrip to EDO Corporation’s Re- been engaged in coalition build- connaissance and Surveillance Sys- ing for several years through both tems plant to participate in a series resident graduate education pro- of technical lectures on electronic Inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), a technology used for target acquisition, is one of the electronic warfare grams for international officers and intelligence receivers and a tour of topics covered in the annual TIO workshop. An actual ISAR image of a U.S. Navy ship is shown on the left along specialized technical short courses the manufacturing facility. with its corresponding false target image on the right, which can be created by an expendable remotely piloted vehicle for partner nations. One initiative The CNO notes that a key ele- using a chip designed by NPS researchers. that has been especially successful ment of the maritime strategy is is the Technology for Information Operations faculty members were chosen for their subject international missions. The Swedish Armed trust. “Trust,” he said, “must be built over (TIO) international workshop. matter expertise to cover technology topics of Forces has participated in multinational opera- time so that our strategic interests and those The concept for the three-week long TIO specific interest to the Swedish military. Since tions of the European Union (EU), NATO of friends, partners and allies are continuously workshop has evolved significantly since our its introduction, NPS has offered a tailored and United Nations and currently has an op- considered while mutual understanding, re- first meetings in early 1996 with Swedish of- course annually with the exception of 2005- erational presence in more than 20 countries. spect and cooperation are promoted.” The ficials. The inaugural course was designed and 2006 when the Swedish Armed Forces under- Along with four other EU countries – Finland, Technology for Information Operations inter- approved within months and was presented went restructuring. Norway, Ireland and Estonia – Sweden has national workshop supports fully the goals and to twelve officers from the Swedish National The 2007 Technologies for Information Op- been developing a rapid reaction capability vision of the Navy’s unified maritime strategy. Defence College (SNDC). Called the SNDC erations workshop included decision modeling called the Nordic Battlegroup (NBG). The It represents one of the many positive ways Advanced Technical Course, this initial two- and tactical analysis as an introduction to spe- NBG, which will be under Swedish command, that Naval Postgraduate School experts in the week long workshop focused on information cial methodologies of command and control. is expected to be operational January 1, 2008. Graduate School of Engineering and Applied and electronic warfare technology and was The course topics ranged from high-speed NPS faculty and staff have gained consider- Sciences can be involved in international mili- completed on Nov. 1, 1996. networking to cruise missile technologies, ably from this ongoing international exchange. tary affairs and coalition building. The workshop was highly coordinated with synthetic aperture radar image compression We have gained first-hand insight on key tech- Dr. Phillip Pace is the Director of the Center Swedish military leaders and the NPS Inter- techniques, ultra wideband impulse methods nical issues faced by our partner nations and for Joint Services Electronic Warfare at the Naval national Programs Office which has played an and other relevant technical issues. developed long-term collaborative relation- Postgraduate School. He earned his Ph.D. from the ongoing and invaluable role in the coordina- The NPS technology workshops have helped ships to bring visiting professors to NPS and University of Cincinnati and has received five pat- tion with the Department of Defense. NPS the Swedish military prepare for new roles in send our faculty abroad. ents for defense-relevant circuits and chip designs. Global Security Cooperation Center Opens President Dan Oliver and Lt. General Robert Ord, III, requirements to engage with U.S. allies in coalition and IN BRIEF Dean of the School of International Graduate Studies interagency environments. • Professor David R. Henderson of GSBPP briefed his study, (SIGS) and Director of the Global Center for Security The center’s mission is to develop and manage a single, “Do We Need to Go to War for Oil?” to congressmen on Cooperation, hosted an opening ceremony at the Global integrated system of international education providers for Capitol Hill. Lawmakers present for the brief included Repre- Center for Security Cooperation on Friday, Nov. 16, to the Defense Department and create new and better ways to sentatives Ron Paul (Texas), Tom Tancredo (Colorado), Scott mark the official establishment of the center which oc- support security cooperation strategy and the international Garrett (New Jersey), Roscoe Bartlett (Maryland), Walter curred on Oct. 1. educators who implement it. Jones (North Carolina), John (Jimmy) Duncan (Tennessee), Dr. Jeb Nadaner, Deputy Secretary of Defense for Henry said in a recent letter to President Oliver and Dean Paul Broun (Georgia), and Danny Rehberg (Montana). Partnership Strategy, Office of the Secretary of Defense Ord, “The Global Center is very important to our success (OSD), flew in especially for this event as the representa- in meeting the demand on our programs in all parts of the • The NPS new national media placement consultant, Gehrung tive of the Secretary of Defense. world...your organization will assist us in getting the most Associates, visited NPS in November and interviewed the The Global Center arose from the vision of the Honor- from our Security Cooperation investments worldwide.” president, provost and several department heads in an effort to able Ryan Henry, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Having the Global Center, an entity of the OSD, here increase visibility for NPS through news stories in prestigious Defense for Policy, in response to the 2006 Quadrennial at the Naval Postgraduate School is another feather in publications such as the Chronicle of Higher Education, Time, Defense Review’s recognition of the ongoing and expanding NPS’ cap. In addition to the prestige of the center itself, Newsweek, USA Today and the New York Times. it provides a direct link to OSD and the • Research by the Explosive and Energetics Group, led over Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the last five years by Professors Ronald Brown (Physics) and as well as showcasing NPS faculty and Jose Sinibaldi (Mechanical Engineering) and supported by programs on an international level and the Office of Naval Research, have helped develop methods demonstrating NPS program relevance for amplifying explosive detonation power. Approximate- to Global War on Terrorism activities ly 25 NPS students have contributed significantly to this such as building partnership capacity of progressive work, including theoretical modeling computa- our partners and allies. tional simulation, and participation in off-site testing. In NPS is an important component of the 2007, significant power gains were reached in experiments Defense Security Cooperation Strategy, conducted at Naval Air Warfare Center-China Lake, and a which specifies the many ways the United practical application for enhancing underwater blast output States reaches out to our partner nations. was demonstrated by workers at Naval Surface Warfare SIGS provides resident graduate programs Center-Indian Head. An upcoming experiment at Lawrence for international officers, numerous mobile Livermore National Laboratory will assess the feasibility of education teams that travel in-country, and reducing warhead weight and size while meeting demanding conducts seminars and conferences with and sensitive munitions requirements. other nations’ military and civilian leader- ship to help strengthen them and enhance • Lt. Cmdr. John Mentzer, a June graduate of the Mechanical U.S. tie them. Engineering program, placed 24th in the times trials for the Henry as well as Congressman Sam Olympics which will be held in China in 2008. Farr sent letters expressing their re- • The new digital production/photo studio is under construc- grets at not being able to attend the tion in Herrmann Hall (Room 034, formerly the Peacock ceremony. In his letter Congressman Room). State-of-the art editing