The NAIS is the Federated Sun’s most prestigious center of higher learning. In addition to traditional academic pursuits, the NAIS is a premier researcher of lostech, and works closely with the AFFS on many projects.

GM notes: In this campaign NAIS isn’t something invented by Hanse Davion to magically process repositories of lostech data conveniently landing in his lap. Instead it’s more like Oxford, but with close ties to the industrial-military complex. On occasion the NAIS actually manages to recover some lostech, and the have been known to engineer some reasonably successful new mech variants from time to time.