Dell and NPS Explore Emerging Technologies During Campus Hackathon
Dell, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Dell, NVIDIA and Sterling joined Naval Postgraduate School students for a hackathon on contributor risk in software supply chains.
Dell Technologies joined students, faculty and industry collaborators at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, for a day organized by the NPS Foundation.
The day began with the Secure Software Supply Chain Hackathon, run with Dell, NVIDIA and Sterling, and ended with a Dell Technologies Tour.
Students explored how public and commercial information can be used to assess the risk of malicious contributors in open-source software supply chains.
The event drew on NPS expertise in computer science, cybersecurity, AI and operational analysis, with faculty framing the national-security problem.