The AEE is an alliance of private and non-private tutorial establishments which contribute to present and future USSPACECOM area superiority by collaborating with tutorial establishments for workforce skilled improvement, elevated space-relevant analysis, expanded space-focused partnerships, and strengthened house dialogue. USSPACECOM introduced the institution of the AEE in September 2022.
Acceptance inside the AEE marks yet one more main milestone for NPS and its House Methods Tutorial Group (SSAG). For greater than 4 a long time, the SSAG has coupled NPS space-related analysis with the graduate schooling of navy officers.
“House Methods at NPS is happy to affix the AEE to make sure that we keep abreast of the speedy developments within the house enviornment because it turns into, as soon as once more, a geopolitical image of technological accomplishment and capabilities – and for the primary time, a contested setting that has important protection benefits for the international locations which are capable of function there, from low earth orbit to geosynchronous orbit to cislunar orbit,” stated Dr. Jim Newman, SSAG chair and a former NASA astronaut.
NPS, which was accepted into the Tutorial Engagement Enterprise in October 2023, joins 47 different civilian and navy tutorial companion establishments. Along with NPS, AEE companions embrace the Air Power Institute of Know-how (AFIT), the U.S. Army Conflict School, the Army House and Missile Protection Faculty and the U.S. Marine Corps Conflict School.
By means of its participation within the AEE, NPS college will obtain defense-level house studying outcomes, competencies and behaviors that may improve curricula, pupil packages and collaborative utilized analysis. Moreover, NPS will profit from discussions with USSPACECOM subject material consultants, take part in AEE symposiums and senior chief discussions, expertise integration, pupil internships and train integration. AEE members may even acquire from NPS, together with pupil operational expertise and college insights to assist perceive and assist naval wants in house, and might leverage NPS’ lengthy historical past and experience in CubeSat miniature satellites for protection functions, with the subsequent two NPS CubeSats due for launch within the spring and fall of 2024.
NPS has an extended and distinguished historical past with our nation’s navy and civilian house packages and its most senior leaders – together with the present Secretary of the Navy, Carlos Del Toro, who as a younger Navy officer graduated with a Grasp of Science diploma in House Methods Engineering. Different House Methods graduates have gone on to nice success in management and repair positions all through the Division of Protection, from flag and normal officers to the Deputy Secretary of Protection.
In March 2023, Secretary Del Toro hosted the inaugural Naval House Summit at NPS, giving senior leaders from all through the DOD a venue to look at the challenges, wants and alternatives of house operations distinctive to the maritime area.
Moreover, as of 2023, 44 NPS graduates have gone on to change into NASA astronauts – greater than every other postgraduate establishment within the U.S.
For extra details about the USSPACECOM Tutorial Engagement Community and its companions, go to the AEE web site.
