Words of Wisdom from NPS Alumnus Inside this Issue Exploring the Ocean Depths Chiefs’ Pinning Historic Dog Tag in Space In Review Naval Postgraduate School President October 2007 President’s Message Vice Admiral (USN, Ret.) Daniel T. Oliver Provost Dr. Leonard Ferrari As I make my rounds of Naval Postgraduate School, I continue to be impressed with the seemingly endless Associate Provost expertise and professionalism that I Information Resources & encounter at this institution. In addition Chief Information Officer to the basic functions of the enterprise, activities abound that support our Dr. Christine Cermak mission to serve the Department of Navy and Department of Defense. Office of Institutional Advancement Naval Postgraduate School We have reviewed the strategic plans of peer institutions, and by modeling 1 University Circle their best ideas and adding metrics, Monterey, CA 93943 we have updated the NPS Strategic Plan: A New View to the Future, which we will use as a tool to assess Editor our progress. The Strategic Plan reflects the first milestone in the process of accreditation reaffirmation. The accreditation steering committee is also MCCS (AW/SW) Jacqueline Kiel moving forward with the capacity and educational effectiveness reviews. [email protected] In anticipation of unveiling the interactive online network for alumni Production Editor in December, we will sponsor an alumni event in San Diego at the end MC2 (AW) Sarah Bir of October. The trip will afford me the opportunity to visit the various [email protected] commands in San Diego, as well as the University of California and its visualization facilities. Journalists The Centennial Planning Committee is fully engaged, organizing volunteers MCCS (AW/SW) Jacqueline Kiel to serve on subcommittees for social and academic events, history, Barbara Honegger marketing, finance, campus appearance/pride and volunteer recruiting for MC2 (SW) Corey Truax the 2009-2010 celebration. John Sanders Javier Chagoya The NPS Foundation hosted the 2nd Annual America’s Heroes Charity Golf Grace Castro Tournament and teamed with the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund as well as the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society. This event, in which nearly 200 Photographers golfers participated, raised over $600,000 for those wounded in action. Javier Chagoya MC2 (AW) Sarah Bir MC2 (SW) Corey Truax Finally, NPS was proud to have the Navy’s former Chief of Naval MC1 Chad J. McNeeley Operations, current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and NPS alumnus Admiral Michael Mullen as the keynote speaker at its graduation ceremony. Acknowledging NPS for being “an epicenter of knowledge for the Navy, our sister services, federal agencies and international partners,” Admiral Mullen ON THE COVER: Then Chief of Naval Operations Adm. also said of NPS, “There is something about this institution. I can almost Mike Mullen speaks at the NPS commencement ceremony. feel the vibrant energy radiating from this place.” During his visit, Mullen also frocked three new chief petty officers assigned to NPS. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Commu- nication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley I concur. Dan Oliver President October 2007 Contents 4 NPS Hosts Team Monterey 9 Hunt for ‘Red Octobers’ A consortium of ten military Aim-able undersea directional commands located in Monterey County soundbeams detect sound underwater 6 SIGS Students in Mongolia 13 Visions of the Centennial Khaan Quest 2007, Planning group prepares a multination exercise for 2009 centennial celebration 4 9 Also in this Issue: 4.....Faculty Win Best Paper Prize 14...GSEAS Ed Tech Receives National FEW Scholarship 5.....GSBPP Professor Co-Edits Research Anthology ...ONR S&T Conference .....DA Professor Selected as FDD Fellow 15...From Professor to Deputy Assistant 7.....CHDS Celebrates “Five Years of Meeting SECDEF for Special Operations the Homeland Security Challenge” 16...CNO Lauds Summer 2007 Grads 8.....Oceanography: Exploring the Depths ...NPS Honors Top Grads, Faculty 10...CNO Holds Final Chiefs’ at Summer 2007 Awards Pinning at NPS 17...NPS Foundation Raises $600,000 12...Astronaut Alums to Take Historic for War Wounded Dog Tag into Space 18...Student’s RAPIDS Chip Enables 3-D 13...Denning Recieves Awards Shared Situational Awareness with UAVs ...Management Prof. Does Well by Doing Good Team Monterey Farr More than the Sum of Its Parts By Barbara Honegger more familiar with the Depart- fense team budget in Monterey totals almost ment of Defense and Homeland $1 billion with over 11,000 personnel.” Security organizations right here Leaders from seven area military com- in the Monterey area,” Oliver said mands briefed participants on their missions, in his opening remarks. “I hope capabilities, budgets and personnel: Deputy this marks the beginning of many Director Col. Dan Scott of the Presidio of more gatherings as we unite to Monterey; Acting Deputy Director Mark solve the challenges posed in se- Breckenridge of the Defense Manpower curing our homeland.” Data Center; Executive Officer Cmdr. A. J. “This is the beginning of a Rice of Fleet Numerical Meteorology and working partnership among our Oceanography Center; Base Commander amazing breadth and depth of Col. Kevin Riedler of Fort Hunter Liggett; military commands and commu- Director James Riedel spoke of the De- President Daniel Oliver (right) and Rep. Sam Farr nity leaders,” Farr said. “There fense Personnel Security Research Center; are all kinds of opportunities to Commanding Officer Lt. Marc Warren of expand if we work together to use Monterey’s U.S. Coast Guard station; and resident Daniel Oliver hosted the first our existing capabilities in new ways.” Dr. Gary Roser of the NPS School of Inter- Pformal meeting of Team Monterey, a con- “What made me realize the incredible depth national Graduate Studies Associate Dean sortium of ten military commands located in and uniqueness of the federal commands con- for International Affairs. Monterey County, Aug. 16. centrated in the area was the BRAC [Base In addition to Farr, local elected officials The evening program on the Quarterdeck Realignment and Closure] process, when we attending the event were Monterey County was the first step in fulfilling Rep. Sam Farr’s realized all the local military commands really Supervisors Chairman Dave Potter and Si- (D-Calif. 17th District) vision to link and are far more than the sum of their parts,” Farr mon Salinas; Monterey Mayor Chuck Della leverage the resources of local federal orga- recalled. “There is no other place with this Sala and City Manager Fred Meurer; Sali- nizations and civilian communities to solve much world-class basic and applied research, nas Mayor Dennis Donohue; Marina Mayor national security issues and local challenges. this much training and this much 24/7 opera- Ila Mettee-McCutchon and Mayor Pro Tem “This evening marks an opportunity for tional capacity that reaches out to the whole Gary Wilmot; King City Mayor Jeff Herrera; representatives of local government to become world. Our combined annual military de- and Del Rey Oaks Mayor Joe Russell. Faculty Win Best Paper Prize By Barbara Honegger n a gala evening ceremony in Vienna’s city hall, Naval Postgraduate (SA) models only look at what people know, not how they know it,” ISchool Operations Research Profs. Nita Lewis Miller and retired Miller explained. “Our model is a process model that formalizes how Army Col. Lawrence Shattuck were awarded the prestigious Roland they know what they know in the real world, inside specific battlefield Calori Best Paper Prize by the European Group for Organizational task environments, while also incorporating more traditional systems Studies (EGOS), in July. analysis concepts.” The topic of the winning article, “Extending Naturalistic Decision “This model resonates with people because of its intuitive nature,” she Making to Complex Organizations: A Dynamic Model of Situated Cog- added. “It’s one of the few models that couples both the technological and nition,” is a paradigm-changing dynamic process model for designing and human aspects of complex systems, and is also valuable for speeding the assessing network centric systems. Miller and Shattuck, co-directors of evolution of new technology.” the NPS Human Systems Integration Program, are also the first Ameri- Over the past five years, Miller and Shattuck have honed cans to win the prize. the model and applied it to The award honors the memory a highly respected French social scien- computer-based simulations, Nita Lewis Miller and tist and philosopher whose work in management and strategy paved the studies of human error and Lawrence Shattuck way for breakthroughs in strategic decision making. field exercises. “In the spirit of Roland Calori’s own work, the winning paper displays The paper was selected in a methodological quality, theoretical innovativeness and the diversity of so- rigorous peer review process cial science perspectives as they relate to organizations and the organized,” from among 125 papers pub- notes the society’s web site. lished in EGOS’ professional “We were treated like royalty from the minute we arrived,” Miller said. journal Organizational Studies “They swore us to secrecy ahead of time so no one would know who’d won in 2005 and 2006. it until it was announced at the EGOS general assembly and celebrated For more information on the over dinner at the ballroom of the elegant Vienna Rathaus. It doesn’t get NPS Human Systems Integra- much better than that.” tion curriculum, contact (831) “This was a huge honor,” Shattuck agreed. “When we got there and 656-2381 or humansys@nps. realized how big an honor it was, we were really humbled.” edu. The program’s website is “What’s new with this paper is that traditional situational awareness http://www.nps.edu/or/hsi. 4 GSBPP Professor Co-Edits Research Anthology by Barbara Honegger English speakers in the world, but environment, and this book ad- few in the middle, outsourcing will dresses that need.” increase the middle class world- “Strategic management of in- wide.