Development of MOOS-IvP is currently sponsored, in FY20, and in several prior years, by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

Program Managers:
Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi (ONR-311),
and formerly Dr. Donald Wagner (ONR-311).


Development of MOOS-IvP has also been sponsored in the previous years (2011-2018), by Battelle.

Program Manager:
Tim Rennick, and formerly Mr. Michael Mellot, and Dr. Robert Carnes

MOOS at Oxford has been funded by the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, ONR-311, the European Commission under grant agreement number FP7-231888-EUROPA and the UK's EPSRC.



Prior support:

  • Early IvP development (1998-2003) was also supported by NUWC-DIVNPT 's ILIR independent research program, managed by Mr. Richard Philips.
  • The initial development of MOOS was performed by Paul Newman while he served as a Post-Doc at MIT in 2001-2002, funded under the ONR Core GOATS program (32OA, 32OE, 32TS, 32OM), led by Profs. Henrik Schmidt and John Leonard.