NRL Monterey - California

NRL Monterey - California

Address

7 Grace Hopper Ave, ST2
Monterey, California 93943
Email: NRL_7500_meteorinfo@us.navy.mil
Phone: (202) 641-1522

About

The Naval Research Laboratory Monterey detachment, a tenant activity at Naval Support Activity Monterey [external site], is located on the Monterey Bay in coastal central California and is about 75 miles south of Silicon Valley.

Other Navy tenants include the Naval Postgraduate School - Naval Postgraduate School [external site] and Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center [external site], who are major operational users of the oceanographic and atmospheric research and development performed by NRL.

The Marine Meteorology Division, located in Monterey, California (NRL-MRY), is part of NRL's Ocean and Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate, which contains six divisions performing broadly based scientific research and advanced technology development in the fields of marine geosciences, acoustics, oceanography, marine meteorology, remote sensing, and space science.

Research Divisions

Marine Meteorology Division – The Division conducts a basic and applied research and development program designed to improve scientific understanding of atmospheric processes that impact fleet operations, and develop automated systems that analyze, simulate, predict, and interpret the structure and behavior of these processes and their effect on naval weapons systems.

Visitor Information

All Visitors MUST submit a 5512 Visit Request Form [PDF] or, if possible, send their requests through Defense Information System for Security (DISS).
For visits to NRL Monterey through DISS:

NRL Monterey SMO is 668565 NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY-DET-5 (use this SMO EXACTLY)
INCLUDE YOUR HOST NAME
Please name your Visit as “COMMAND/VISITOR LASTNAME” (ONR/SMITH)
Questions visits may be addressed to the Security Office at 202-893-1106, or 831-917-3446. Security e-mail address: security@nrlmry.navy.mil

For visits to NRL MRY via paper request:

Fill out a Visit Request form [PDF] and please submit via fax (831) 656-4191 or via Safe Access File Exchange (SAFE) only. (SAFE): https://safe.apps.mil/ and use security@nrlmry.navy.mil as the required e-mail address.

The Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanographic Center (FNMOC) is a co-located facility, if you need access to TS/SCI for NRL Monterey or are also visiting FNMOC during your visit, you must send:

For TS/SCI visits, the SMO is N631343 (Listed as FNMOC)
For Secret visits, the SMO is 631345 (Listed as FLENUMMETOCCEN)
Please name your Host as “NRL/HOSTNAME”
SCI visits may be addressed to NRLMRY via the SSO at FNMOC: LT A.P. Miller, SSO

Visitors may obtain entry to the NRL MRY buildings on the Annex via the Airport Rd. Main Gate. NRL is not on the Naval Postgraduate School compound. If your visitor needs an address for directions, use 737 Airport Rd, Monterey CA 93943.