Research Initiatives at the Naval Postgraduate School
Funds basic and applied STEM research proposed through the Naval Postgraduate School's own research office.
The Naval Postgraduate School runs its own standing research funding line, separate from the Navy's bigger research offices, and keeps it open for years at a time rather than running it as an annual competition.
What it funds is basic and applied research in STEM fields. It draws a hard line against anything closer to procurement: this is not for developing a specific system or buying hardware.
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Basic and applied STEM research proposed to the Naval Postgraduate School's own research office, excluding development of a specific system or hardware procurement.
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