The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) initiative Multi-Thread Experimentation (MTX) encompasses multiple research objectives with an overarching goal of developing a general purpose UxV Networked...

The United States and the Chinese are engaged in an artificial intelligence (AI) competition. The Chinese AI initiatives in Latin America have given it an initial advantage in the region against the United States. First, the thesis examines the Chinese broader technolog...

The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SysCon48628.2021.9447063 This paper describes the goals, approaches, initial results, and preliminary implementation of WRT-1006, a multiphase research task within the Systems Engineering Resea...

The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs9111162 Airborne in situ and remote sensing measurements of methane were performed over the marine seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel close to the Coal Oil Point in California on two days in ...

Meteorological remote sensing efforts have advanced operational decision making and scientific research over the last half-century by providing high-quality global observations of the land, atmosphere, and ocean. The continued development of convolutional neural network...

Machine learning methods have recently increased in appearance in navigation and guidance applications by means of image classification. This thesis sought to advance the ongoing Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Control Systems and Robotics Laboratory project i...

17 USC 105 interim-entered record; under temporary embargo. Challenges in interference-limited satellite detection arising from the low-earth orbit (LEO) and the Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency bands are addressed. In particular, a novel signal presen...

17 USC 105 interim-entered record; under temporary embargo. Free space optical communications (FSO) have the potential to substantially improve communications technology in terms of channel capacity and offer an alternative to their RF counterpart. Additional characteri...

Includes supplementary material, which may be found at https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/66767 Blockchain technology has garnered significant attention for its disruptive potential in several domains of national security interest. For the United States government to ...

The DoN is undergoing a digital transformation that is set to address the needs of sustaining fleet assets for extended periods of time, while maintaining a superior lethality. Within the engineering domain, the DoN is starting to identify MBSE tools and concepts to str...