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CRUSER Purpose
CRUSER was chartered at the direction of the Secretary of the Navy to create a broad consortium - spanning the Navy, Marine Corps, Department of Defense, academia, and industry - focused on the advancement of unmanned systems education and research in order to "shape generations of naval officers through education, research, concept generation and experimentation in maritime application of robotics, automation, and unmanned systems." In doing so, CRUSER provides a DoD-wide community of interest to exchange research and experimentation results related to unmanned systems integration with military and naval operations.
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Highlights
The annual Naval Postgraduate School Warfare Innovation Continuum (WIC) Workshop is an innovation engine leveraging our strength – our operational experienced students and defense oriented faculty – to address complex fleet issues and discover opportunities available through emerging technologies. Teams of early career engineers from industry, Navy labs, and academia with junior officers from NPS and other commands are facilitated through a three day rapid concept generation process to craft concepts of employment and risk assessments within a future conflict scenario.
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2019 WIC Workshop Group
Team Demeter (September 2019) pictured from left to right: Jessica Wilson, Ann Gallenson, Dr. Michael Ouimet, LT Brian Bird USN, Maj Matthew Morse USMC, LT Kylen Lemenager USN, LTCDR Andy Robinson (New Zealand), Kevin Allshouse, and Capt Shawn Kunzler USMC (not pictured: Josh Smith).
Team Diagon (September 2019) pictured from left to right: Justin Amoyal, Luis Rivera, Katie Janney, Zack Akilan, Capt Alex Preston USMC, Jonathan Douglas, Maj Kyle McCarley USMC, LT Michael Shofner USN, Shane Griffin, Lance Lowenberg, and LT John Hawley USN.
Team Hermes (September 2019) pictured from left to right: LCDR Sean Dougherty USN, David Aaron, Karl Anacker, LCDR Rudy Mason USN, Matthew Sobocinski, Brett Vaughan, Kayla Saunders, George Campbell, and Jefferson Huang (not pictured: Maggie Galle)
Team Kronos (September 2019 pictured from left to right: William Glenney, Matthew Young, Dr. Jim Keener, CAPT Ed "Tick" McCabe USN, Dr. Shelley Gallup, John Coffey, Col Chris Braney USMC, Mike Graham, Kawa Amina, and Glen Sears (not pictured: Aaron Harris and Todd Lyons)
Team Osiris (September 2019) pictured from left to right: CAPT Tony Nelipovich USNR, Warren Grunwald, Tonya Smith, LCDR Pam Bozdioch USNR, LT Candice Tisdale USN, LT Christopher Girouard USN, LT Joseph Rego USN, Terry Dang, Peng Zhang, and 1stLt Kevin Yarnell USMC (not pictured: Dave Nobles)
Team Peko (September 2019) pictured from left to right: Dr Judy Conley, LT Barry Loseke USN, LT Dakota Sicher USN, Dr Reid Smith, LT Benjamin Sandridge, LT Rick McClain USN, LtCol Roy Miner USMC, Sierra Palmer, LT Matt Winne USNR, LCDR Dana Canby USN, and Steve O'Grady,
Team Viridios (September 2019) pictured from left to right: Garth Jensen, LT Bradley Nye USN, LCDR Audrey Carter USN, LT Benjamin Rathwell USN, Dr. Elena Shrestha, Capt Christian Toro, CAPT Eric Morgan USN, Kristen Tsolis, and Bill Jankowski (not pictured: LCDR James Gowling, Royal Australian Navy)
Team Vulcan (September 2019) pictured from left to right: CPT Paul Miller USAR, LT Shane O'Donnell USN, LT Roberto Garcia USN, Capt Steven D. Kasdan USMC, Jeremy Lerch, Jeff Parker, Dr. Misha Blocksome, CPT Ryan Campbell USA, Brendan Bongi, and CDR Chris O’Connor USN
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Upcoming Events
March 25 & 26, 2020
CRUSER invites you to participate in the first annual xSwarm Workshop on March 25 & 26th 2020, in Monterey, California.
xSwarm 2020 is an exploratory workshop for discussing the challenges of "black box" swarms or—xSwarms—large groups of agents for which there is a lack of a priori information about the internal control and decision-making mechanisms and only partial information about the system's perceptual and communication capabilities. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers across diverse fields to provoke sharing of research, discussion, and brainstorming for the development of new tools for understanding xSwarms.
Attendees will have the opportunity to present relevant research, suggest areas of inquiry to the community, and lead or participate in panel discussions.
For more details and contact info, please email xswarm@nps.edu.
September 2020
The next WIC Workshop will be held at the NPS campus in Monterey 21-24 September 2020. Topic TBD, to be set in June 2020.
Ongoing
See the RoboDojo schedule of events.
See the JIFX schedule of events.
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Join CRUSER
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Fast Facts
| Community of Interest members | 2966 |
| Research Projects | 166 |
| Seed Funding distributed | $14M |
| NPS Theses & Dissertations | 216 |
| NPS Student Trips | 159 |
| Concept Generation Workshops | 12 |
| Technical Symposia | 5 |
| Research Fairs & Expos | 8 |
| Seminars & Lectures | 18 |
| Panel Discussions | 6 |
| Monthly Meeting Presentations | 158 |
| Papers & Presentations | 157 |
| Concepts Generated | 504 |