Naval Postgraduate School

Graduate School of Defense Management includes the academic groups:

– class of 1924 – First Director of Armed Forces Security Agency

Earl E. Stone

– class of 1930 – Chief of Naval Operations

Arleigh Burke

– 1930s – Superintendent of Naval Postgraduate School 1965-67

Edward J. O'Donnell

– class of 1945 – Regarded as the "Father of Gravitational Wave Detection"

Joseph Weber

– class of 1944 – Operations researcher; a pioneer of Monte Carlo methods in finance

David B. Hertz

– class of 1955 – Rear Admiral; NATO RIM-7 Sea Sparrow project manager^[14]

Stanley Thomas Counts

– class of 1955 – Regarded as the "Father of Aegis"

Wayne E. Meyer

– class of 1957 – Marine Corps Lieutenant general

John H. Miller

– class of 1958 – Secretary of Energy, Chief of Naval Operations

James D. Watkins

– class of 1959 – Major general in the Marine Corps

Wilbur F. Simlik

– class of 1961 – Astronaut

Edgar Mitchell

– class of 1961 – Astronaut

Gerald Carr

– class of 1964 – Astronaut

Ronald Evans

– class of 1964 – Astronaut

Paul Weitz

– class of 1964 – Astronaut

Robert F. Overmyer

– class of 1964 – Astronaut

Eugene Cernan

– class of 1965 – Astronaut

Jack Lousma

– class of 1966 – 20th Secretary of the Air Force

James G. Roche

– class of 1968 – Astronaut

Michael Smith

– class of 1971 – Marine Corps General

James D. Beans

– class of 1971 – Astronaut

Robert Springer

– class of 1971 – Astronaut

Jon McBride

– class of 1972 – retired Army lieutenant general, commander of First United States Army

George A. Fisher Jr.

– class of 1972 – Astronaut

David Leestma

– class of 1974 – United States Secretary of the Army

Thomas E. White

– class of 1974 – First woman to earn third star in the US Navy

Patricia Ann Tracey

– class of 1975 or 1976 – American microcomputer industry pioneer (IMSAI)

Glenn Ewing

– class of 1976 – American microcomputer industry pioneer (IMSAI, Compiler Systems, Digital Research, Symantec)

Gordon Eubanks

– class of 1978 – Astronaut

David Hilmers

– class of 1979 – Vice Chief of Naval Operations

Stan Arthur

– class of 1979 – Astronaut

Michael Coats

– class of 1980 – Commanding General, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command

William S. Wallace

– class of 1980 – Astronaut

Winston Scott

– class of 1982 – First African-American female Rear Admiral (RDML) in the United States Navy

Lillian E. Fishburne

– class of 1983 – Director of the National Security Agency

Keith B. Alexander

– class of 1983 – Chief operating officer of Federal Emergency Management Agency

Harvey E. Johnson Jr.

– class of 1984 – Astronaut

Michael Lopez-Alegria

– class of 1984 – Astronaut

Kenneth S. Reightler Jr.

– class of 1984 – Vice Chief of Naval Operations

Mark E. Ferguson III

– class of 1985 – 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Michael Mullen

– class of 1986 – Astronaut

Mike Foreman

– class of 1986 – Commanding general of the United States Army North

Thomas R. Turner II

– class of 1987 – Astronaut

Kent Rominger

– class of 1987 – Astronaut

Jeffrey Williams

– class of 1989 – Astronaut

Brent Jett

– class of 1990 – Astronaut

Carlos Noriega

– class of 1990 – Astronaut

Robert Curbeam

– class of 1990 – Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet

Cecil D. Haney

– class of 1990 – Astronaut

Scott Altman

– class of 1991 – Astronaut

Dan Bursch

– class of 1992 – Astronaut

Christopher Ferguson

– class of 1992 – Astronaut

William McCool

– class of 1993 – Commander, United States Special Operations Command

William H. McRaven

– class of 1993 – Director of the National Counterterrorism Center

John Scott Redd

– class of 1994 – Astronaut, United States Senator from Arizona

Mark Kelly

– class of 1994 – Astronaut

Stephen Frick

– class of 1995 – Astronaut

John Herrington

– class of 1995 – Astronaut

Alan G. Poindexter

– class of 1995 – Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command

Edward G. Winters, III

- class of 1996 - NASA executive

Linda Ham

– class of 1996 – Astronaut

Kenneth Ham

– class of 1998 – Astronaut

Marcos Pontes

– class of 1999 – Principal advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Nancy E. Brown

– class of 1985 – Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command

Eric T. Olson

– class of 2001 – Vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency

Elizabeth Hight

– class of 2001 – Deputy director of operations for U.S. Cyber Command, first female IW flag officer

Jan Tighe

– class of 2009 – Commander, US Navy - Astronaut

Victor J. Glover

– class of 2013 – Sheriff and commentator

David Clarke

– class of 2017 – Bangladeshi Naval officer

Rear Admiral S M Abul Kalam Azad

– Director of the Office of Force Transformation

Arthur K. Cebrowski

– retired Marine major, professor at the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School

Ben Connable

– Naval Inspector General USN

Lee F. Gunn

– first deputy under secretary for cybersecurity at the DHS

Mark Weatherford

– Chief of Army Staff Pakistan Army

Qamar Javed Bajwa

– President of Albania

Bujar Nishani

– Commander of the United States Pacific Fleet (current)

Samuel Paparo

Guillermo Barrera – class of 1983 – Commander of the Colombian Navy

– class of 1989 – 78th Secretary of the Navy (current)

Carlos Del Toro

John Arquilla

Samuel Buttrey

Dorothy Denning

Peter J. Denning

Richard Hamming

Gary Kildall

Vali Nasr

Guillermo Owen

I. Michael Ross

Paul N. Stockton

Kathryn Strutynski

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Center for Asymmetric Warfare (CAW)

Centre d'Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques

Center for Homeland Defense and Security

Defense Language Institute

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