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Navy Higher Education Developing COVID-19 Mitigation Plans For Fall

Naval War College (NWC) holds a graduation ceremony on March 3, 2020. US Navy Photo

The Navy’s higher education programs are still developing COVID-19 mitigation strategies for fall classes – a little more than a month before officers and midshipmen start arriving at campuses.

The U.S. Naval Academy, the Naval War College and Naval Postgraduate School have different issues to sort out when planning for the fall.

The Naval Academy plans to bring midshipmen to Annapolis for Plebe Summer at the end...

https://news.usni.org/2020/06/09/navy-higher-education-developing-covid-19-mitigation-plans-for-fall

Artificial Intelligence at Core of Marine Officers’ ‘Big Ideas’ for Future of Force

A team of 10 Marines is mulling how to take major technology developments and apply them to the combat missions, as part of a Naval Postgraduate School-hosted series of online TED talk-styled presentations.

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, virtual reality and other technological advances are at the center of the “Big Ideas Exchange.” The goal is moving the most promising idea from the theoretical to the practical as quickly as possible.

Several students said they drew inspiration...

https://news.usni.org/2020/06/02/artificial-intelligence-at-core-of-marine-officers-big-ideas-for-future-of-force

Navy Close to Hiring Leaders for New Community College

Utilitiesman 1st Class Joshua Poirier, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 3, and Sailors assigned to Commander, Fleet Activities Okinawa tenant commands, take the Navy-wide chief petty officer advancement exam. US Navy Photo

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Navy is close to establishing what is intended to be an early stop on a continuum of learning, as it nears hiring the leadership of its soon-to-be-formed Naval Community College.

Creating a Naval Community College is part of the...

https://news.usni.org/2019/11/14/navy-close-to-hiring-leaders-for-new-community-college

Naval Postgraduate School Pitching Its Curriculum As Pathway To U.S. Space Command

Gen. Jay Raymond, the former Air Force Space Command commander who was tapped to lead the new U.S. Space Command, briefs Airmen at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, July 29, 2019. US Air Force photo.

THE PENTAGON – As U.S. Space Command stands up today, the Naval Postgraduate School is pitching itself as an established source of space planners, logisticians and program managers.

For decades, the school in Monterey, Calif., has trained mostly Navy personnel how to run and design the space...

https://news.usni.org/2019/08/29/naval-postgraduate-school-pitching-its-curriculum-as-pathway-to-u-s-space-command