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U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Sarah Murphy, a MAGTF planner assigned to 2nd Marine Logistics Group, participates in the Basic Analytic Wargaming Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., July 22, 2022. The BAWC is a 5-day course that provides students a hands-on experience with designing, developing, executing, and analyzing wargames. Wargames are a form of strategy game and essential to applying Marine Corps concepts of the 21st century, replicating or creating military scenarios that assists military personnel to train the mind in the art of strategic thinking. - U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Sarah Murphy, a MAGTF planner assigned to 2nd Marine Logistics Group, participates in the Basic Analytic Wargaming Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., July 22, 2022. The BAWC is a 5-day course that provides students a hands-on experience with designing, developing, executing, and analyzing wargames. Wargames are a form of strategy game and essential to applying Marine Corps concepts of the 21st century, replicating or creating military scenarios that assists military personnel to train the mind in the art of strategic thinking.

II MEF Marines Apply Future Concepts in Wargaming

U.S. Marines with II Marine Expeditionary Force attended the Basic Analytic Wargaming Course, culminating into a wargame scenario on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., July 18-22. The BAWC is a 5-day course that provides students a hands-on experience with designing, executing, and analyzing a wargame in an instructor led environment. Wargaming is a form of strategy game that simulates warfare in a realistic tabletop environment which can replicate historical military scenarios or create new ones...

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U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Christian Thiessen a student at the Naval Postgraduate School and Dr. Britta Hale, a professor from NPS visit I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group to conduct research on shortfalls of the fleet at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, May 17, 2021. NPS provides its students with defense-focused studies in order to meet the needs and requirements of the units they support. - U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Christian Thiessen a student at the Naval Postgraduate School and Dr. Britta Hale, a professor from NPS visit I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group to conduct research on shortfalls of the fleet at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, May 17, 2021. NPS provides its students with defense-focused studies in order to meet the needs and requirements of the units they support.

NPS Student-Professor Team Connects Research to Marines in the Field

This past Summer, a Marine infantry officer and a cryptographer from the Naval Postgraduate School journeyed to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, where I Marine Expeditionary Force was holding the Pacific Sentry 2021 field exercise. Their mission … to pilot an idea...

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Assistant Commandant for the Marine Corps Gen. Gary Thomas talks with Naval Postgraduate School Information Warfare student Marine Corps Capt. Matt Dunovant during a visit to the university, Dec. 9. - Assistant Commandant for the Marine Corps Gen. Gary Thomas talks with Naval Postgraduate School Information Warfare student Marine Corps Capt. Matt Dunovant during a visit to the university, Dec. 9.

Marine Corps Assistant Commandant Explores Emerging Concepts, Capabilities at NPS

On a trip to observe emerging technologies in practice, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Gary Thomas, accompanied by five other general officers, visited the Naval Postgraduate School, December 9, to engage directly with university faculty and students from key labs and institutes about the implications of their research on future concepts and capabilities for the Marine Corps...

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A U.S. Marine conducts an operations check on a 310 Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle on Camp Dwyer, Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 11. - A U.S. Marine conducts an operations check on a 310 Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle on Camp Dwyer, Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 11.

NPS Researchers, Marines Explore the Trust Factor in Human-Machine Teaming

Trust in autonomous systems to do what they are designed to do, and meant to do, is paramount before these systems can be confidently employed as an operational capability. In an era of Great Power Competition, where those who can field autonomous capabilities the fastest will have a distinct advantage, researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School are exploring many of the fundamentals of autonomous systems, especially in the trust and confidence arena. On the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, NPS researchers conducted a novel experiment with an autonomous robot in a simulated environment – with real Marines – seeking to understand just how confident the Marines were in the robot to complete its tasks in a combat environment...

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Maj. Ezra Akin is the first Marine to graduate from the Marine Corps’ Doctor of Philosophy Program - Technical, initiated to develop a cadre of strategic thinking, technically-astute uniformed leaders capable of guiding the applied research and innovative thought necessary to create warfighter advantage in the modern, cognitive age. - Maj. Ezra Akin is the first Marine to graduate from the Marine Corps’ Doctor of Philosophy Program - Technical, initiated to develop a cadre of strategic thinking, technically-astute uniformed leaders capable of guiding the applied research and innovative thought necessary to create warfighter advantage in the modern, cognitive age.

Marine Corps’ Landmark PhD Program Celebrates First Technical Graduate

When the Marine Corps developed its new Doctor of Philosophy Program, the service recognized the need for a cohort of strategic thinkers and technical leaders capable of the applied research and innovative thinking necessary to develop warfighter advantage in the modern, cognitive age. The Technical version of the program, PHDP-T, just celebrated its first graduate, with Maj. Ezra Akin completing his doctorate in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School, September 25...

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Senior enlisted personnel are taking advantage of a new opportunity at NPS to better prepare for their next deployment while also earning graduate-level credit through a four-course certificate program in Regional Security Studies. - Senior enlisted personnel are taking advantage of a new opportunity at NPS to better prepare for their next deployment while also earning graduate-level credit through a four-course certificate program in Regional Security Studies.

Students Across Navy’s Educational Enterprise Exchange Big Ideas

The U.S. Marine Corps at the Naval Postgraduate School kicked off the first day of the university’s latest Big Idea Exchange with five of the 14 students presenting their cutting-edge research and ideas in a virtual environment, May 27, with more presentations still to come. The BIX brings forward new and potentially game-changing thinking developed by NPS faculty and students to address grand challenges in American national security...

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Four enlisted Marines, part of the newest cadre of NCOs attending the Naval Postgraduate School, join Marine Corps officers on the front steps of Herrmann Hall, Nov. 11. - Four enlisted Marines, part of the newest cadre of NCOs attending the Naval Postgraduate School, join Marine Corps officers on the front steps of Herrmann Hall, Nov. 11.