Christopher Adams is a Senior Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) department of Mechanical and Astronautical Engineering.  He is a retired Navy Commander and the former Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Ca.

Professor Adams provides unique advanced education in support of national security and teaches a course entitled Combat Survivability, Reliability and Systems Safety Engineering.  This course provides the student with an understanding of survivability, reliability and systems safety engineering for military platforms including submarines, surface ships, fixed-wing and rotary wing aircraft, as well as missiles, unmanned vehicles and satellites.  In-depth studies of the survivability various vehicles give the students practical knowledge in the design of battle-ready platforms and weapons.