Innovation Accelerates Through NPS’ Ongoing Joint Interagency Field Experimentation Program

Published on April 24, 2024

NPS quarterly Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) events

NPS’ quarterly Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) events, sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, provides defense innovators and industry partners with a unique platform to advance DOD relevant technologies, and share insights with the defense community. (Photo by Dan Linehan)

Every three months, like a high-tech pilgrimage, dozens of industry technologists journey from across the nation to a backcountry gathering at Camp Roberts, a U.S. Army National Guard base in southern Monterey County, California. They bring cutting-edge equipment of all shapes and sizes, functions and capabilities – and stages of development – for a unique five-day event.

They come for the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) program to brainstorm, conduct experiments, and showcase their latest innovations in front of NPS student, faculty, and staff observers, as well as U.S. Navy and Department of Defense (DOD) representatives.

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