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Needed Reforms
Invest in and expand force structure. The USN’s organizing principle remains platform-centered: vessels manned by sailors. The manned surface and subsurface forces act in concert with land-based, air-based, and spacebased forces to project power outside sovereign territory, principally by operating in international waters. Investments must be closely coordinated with these other elements of military power.
1. Builda fleet of more than 355 ships.”° 2. Develop and field unmanned systems to augment the manned forces.
3. Require that range and lethality be the key factors in all procurement and sustainment decisions for ships, aircraft, and munitions.
Reestablish the General Board. In contrast with the Navy General Board that served ship development so well during the interwar period, the current joint process” for defining the requirements for major defense acquisitions is not well-suited to long-term planning of the sort that is needed for USN fleet architecture and shipbuilding. The interwar General Board should serve as a model, empowered with
final decision authority over all requirements documents concerning ships and the major defense systems fielded on ships. The individual board members would ensure a broad base of knowledge as well as independent thinking.”®
Establish a Rapid Capabilities Office. The USN must transition technology into warfighting capability more rapidly. It must foster a culture of innovation that includes connecting theoretical and intangible ideas with real production environments that produce tangible and practical outcomes and adapting proven processes to advance material solutions.
1. Harness innovation and willingness to tolerate risk so that “good enough” systems can be fielded rapidly.
2. Use the Space Development Agency as a model. 3. Establish an oversight Board of Directors made up of the service chief,
service secretary, and Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment.
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Accelerate the purchase of key munitions. It takes years to build and maintain navies but only hours to expend their ordnance in combat. The USN must be prepared to expend large quantities of air-launched and sea-launched stealthy, precision, cruise missiles against targets both at sea and ashore. Additionally, modern air defense requires the use of highperformance surface-to-air missiles.
1. Produce key munitions at the maximum rate with significant capacity.
2. Working with the Congress, employ the widest possible range of techniques to enhance the munitions supply chains and workforce.
Enhance warfighter development. The USN requires a variety of documented qualifications for personnel to advance in their careers and assume leadership positions. It also requires individual professional qualifications that are focused on warfighting.
1. Mandate qualifications that demonstrate an understanding of core competence in collective, integrated warfighting, especially based on current plans and technologies.
2. Elevate the Headquarters Staff focused on Warfighter Development (N7) within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) and empower it to develop such requirements.
3. Require that war games be utilized as experiential learning environments for the participants as a prerequisite for achieving career milestones (department heads, commanding officers, and major commanders).
4. Highlight in training and leader development that USN forces can and must maintain the ability to operate from and/or defend sovereign territory to include our allies and partners.
5. Train to balance effects from kinetic to nonkinetic and from lethal to nonlethal through effective command and control.
U.S. AIR FORCE
The U.S. Air Force today lacks a force structure with the lethality, survivabil
ity, and capacity to fight a major conflict with a great power like China, deter
nuclear threats, and meet its other operational requirements under the National
Defense Strategy.’ For 30 years, the Air Force has received less annual funding
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