Responsive Image

Welcome to JIFX! Come to engage and experiment with innovators, industry, and warfighters.

The JIFX team leads experimentation in alternative methods to enable rapid technological development by cultivating a community of interest and hosting broadly scoped quarterly collaborative field events. JIFX enables DoD, US government, and allied stakeholders to identify, influence, and accelerate early-stage technology development that address national and collective security challenges.

The JIFX program exists to provide an opportunity for NPS faculty, students, private companies, and academia to demonstrate and evaluate new technologies related to the Department of the Navy and the Department of Defense. At JIFX we conduct research in an operational field environment, and also to provide the operational community the opportunity to experiment with these technologies to better understand the capabilities that they may represent.

Stay up to date with JIFX

Sign up for the JIFX Community of Interest mailing list!

Upcoming Events

JIFX 26-4

10–14 August 2026

Proposal submission deadlines:

• To fly UAS: 15 June 2026
                            • See here for required UAS information
                • All other experiments: 29 June 2026

JIFX 27-1

2–6 November 2026

JIFX 27-2

15–19 February 2027

JIFX 27-3

17–21 May 2027

JIFX 27-4

16–20 August 2027


Additional Naval Postgraduate School Resources


See all Research Centers, Institutes and Facilities at NPS

Stakeholder Website

(Federal Government Only, CAC Required)

*Works best on Internet Explorer Version 11*


Questions?

Contact us at npsfx@nps.edu