Naval Postgraduate School, private sector partner to improve AI education
Naval Postgraduate School, private sector partner to improve AI education
Publish Date: 2026-05-18 18:22:00
Source Domain: federalnewsnetwork.com
The Department of the Navy is ensuring its officers at the highest levels understand how artificial intelligence works as it adopts and integrates it into its warfighting functions.
The Naval Postgraduate School is at the center of those efforts, providing both the courses and the technology to drive that learning.
Randy Pugh, NPS’s vice provost for warfare studies, the director of the Office of Warfare Studies and the lead of the AI task force, said teaching classes and doing research are important pieces to this puzzle. But NPS’s new relationship with Nvidia is helping drive home the necessary learning.
“Our relationship with Nvidia allows us access to their Deep Learning Institute, which is commercial certifications and all these different aspects of machine learning, modeling and simulation, advanced graphic processing unit (GPU)-based, hyper-compute and so with all of that, the primary effort is to get everybody as smart and capable as possible in AI,” Pugh said in an interview on Ask the CIO. “The other gifts from Nvidia via the NPS Foundation are the $15 million AI supercomputer, which is being installed now at Naval Postgraduate School. It’s a one of a kind in the Defense Department, serial number two coming off the Nvidia assembly line is coming to the Naval Postgraduate School, so that everybody will be able to see it first there and put their hands on it there first.”
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Randy Pugh is the vice provost for warfare studies, the director of the Office of Warfare Studies and the lead of the AI task force at the Naval Postgraduate School.
NPS, which signed a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Nvidia in December 2024, also is receiving access to a modeling and simulation platform, which is a $5 million Omniverse instance to help train the “brains” of robots and drones in a virtual sense, before…
