The Naval Postgraduate College (NPS) and Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLT) are becoming a member of forces to ascertain the Nimitz Analysis Group, a company which can leverage NPS’ academic and analysis capabilities and institutional information to satisfy the wants of the Pacific Fleet.
Created beneath the aegis of NPS’ Naval Warfare Research Institute (NWSI), the Nimitz Analysis Group will encompass NPS school and college students who will function an extension of the PACFLT workers in Hawaii, collaborating in fleet workout routines and occasions and offering extra analysis capability and subject material experience.
The launch of the Nimitz Analysis Group was introduced on Feb. 16 by the president of NPS, retired Vice Adm. Ann E. Rondeau, and Adm. Samuel Paparo, Commander, PACFLT.
“The institution of the Nimitz Analysis Group marks an extra evolution in our excellent partnership with the U.S. Pacific Fleet,” stated Rondeau. “We’ve got at all times seen NPS as a middle of excellence and innovation, a spot the place our school and college students work collectively to unravel the operational challenges of our fleet and power. Via the Nimitz Analysis Group, we can present these options by deploying our expertise and our expertise in direct help of our Pacific Fleet companions.”
The Nimitz Analysis Group is modeled after NWSI’s Bucklew Analysis Group, which already gives related help to Naval Particular Warfare (NSW) by means of research and analysis by Navy SEAL officers attending NPS on a two-year grasp’s diploma program. Bucklew students function an extension of NSW Group instructions, who in flip profit from the SEALs’ schooling, analysis efforts, interactions with the educational neighborhood, and proximity to Silicon Valley.
Throughout a gathering with educational and business leaders at NPS in October 2021, Paparo – a graduate of NPS’ Techniques Evaluation program – expressed a want to equally leverage the distinctive capabilities of NPS to help COMPACFLT’s priorities and analysis wants. Paparo acknowledged the worth of using the deep experience of NPS school members in addition to the operational expertise of NPS’ 2,500 mid-career officers, senior non-commissioned officers and civilians.
The instance set by the Bucklew Analysis Group proved to be a great mannequin for PACFLT’s necessities. In consequence, the Nimitz Analysis Group was conceived with the aim of offering coherence and unity of motion for NPS’ help to PACFLT.
“The Nimitz Analysis Group hyperlinks the mental rigor of NPS, its key location within the nation’s hub of technical innovation and the experience of progressive warfighters within the Pacific Fleet to analysis, develop and implement new and dynamic fight capabilities,” stated Paparo. “Collectively we are going to construct important benefits over our rivals to maximise our strengths – battlespace consciousness, agility, maneuverability and collective capabilities of the joint forces.”
In line with U.S. Marine Corps Col. Randy Pugh, deputy director of NWSI, the primary thought behind the Nimitz Analysis Group is its multi-disciplinary nature. Because the group consists of members from all providers, warfare communities and educational packages, each downside is analyzed and solved utilizing many alternative lenses and with an incredible wealth and variety of experiences and experience.
“In consequence, you find yourself with a extremely wealthy and well-informed answer to a selected downside,” Pugh stated. “The final theme is that this isn’t simply the collective exercise of people, however reasonably an entire which may be very a lot higher than the sum of its elements.”
