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IW Week


Date: Oct 26, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026
Location: NPS Campus

IW Week is utilized as a way to highlight NPS activities that relate strongly to the IW Community.

IW Community Connects!


Date: Oct 27, 2026 to Oct 28, 2026
Location: NPS Campus

This is an inaugural family readiness event focused on strengthening and fostering total force resiliency, making connections, and better understanding support networks as well as the breadth of resources available to Navy spouses and families.  Although this event is part of IW week, it is open to ALL NPS students and spouses.

Navy and DOW subject matter experts and service providers will facilitate discussions and provide information focused on:

 • Mid-career progressions.
 • Navigating military family life together.
 • Resilience.
• What it means to be mission ready.

Register here for more details and a full schedule of events!

Hyper-Velocity Impact Society Conference


Date: Nov 1, 2026 to Nov 6, 2026
Location: NPS - Hyatt Regency

Fosters the development and exchange of technical information in the discipline of hypervelocity impact phenomena by promoting technical excellence, encouraging peer review publications, and holding technical meetings on a periodic basis.

USMC ARFF Summit


Date: Nov 2, 2026 to Nov 6, 2026
Location: NPS - Monterey, CA

Professional collaboration forum focused on Marine Corps Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) and Aviation Ground Support (AGS) operations, readiness, modernization efforts, training integration, lessons learned, capability development, and future operational requirements. The summit will include presentations, working groups, and collaborative planning sessions among AGS and ARFF personnel from across the Marine Corps.

FVEY Critical Undersea and Arctic Workshops


Date: Nov 9, 2026 to Nov 13, 2026
Location: NPS

NPS is recognized as an excellent convening location that brings subject matter experts (faculty) and operators (students) together to help organizations fully explore options to address critical national security challenges.  This will be a combined workshop with overlap by several attendees.  

The first portion of the workshop will be a FVEY Critical Undersea Infrastructure Protection meeting, led by NUWC-Newport, with attendees from FVEY nations to explore the increasingly important and challenging issue of protecting critical national undersea assets such as cables and pipelines.  

The second portion will be a tri-lat (US, UK, CAN) workshop, led by PMS-485, exploring concepts for the installation of new undersea infrastructure in the Arctic.

Directed Energy Systems Symposium


Date: Nov 16, 2026 to Nov 20, 2026
Location: Monterey, CA

The Directed Energy Systems Symposium focuses on systems aspects of Directed Energy (DE). The purpose is to advance DE science and technology through sharing of information and current research. The target audience is academic researchers, DOW scientists and program managers, and industry representatives.

NPSF Grand Winter Ball


Date: Dec 5, 2026
Location: NPS Campus

Grand Winter Ball hosted by NPS Foundation

TSSE Program Ship Design Presentation


Date: Dec 10, 2026
Location: ME Auditorium

TSSE Program Engineering Design Review of Capstone Project with stakeholder representatives, faculty and students.

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