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... Based on its examination of the naval and joint operational concepts implicit in Naval Power 21 and drawing on the collective experience and expertise of its members, the committee identified seven "disruptive" capabilities inherent in or 1 See ADM Vern Clark, USN, Chief of Naval Operations, 2002, "Sea Power 21," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Vol.
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... . Not intended as an in-depth technical review of the current naval aviation programs at ONR, this study identifies promising naval aviation S&T opportunities and capabilities that might enable, in the time frames indicated, the naval and joint operational concepts expressed in Naval Power 21, the Navy and Marine Corps strategic vision of future war fighting, and Joint Vision 2020.
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... The committee was thus able to compare the technical portfolio approach used at ONR and the systems enginnering approach, called integrated product and process development, used by the Air Force, and it developed recommendations on ways to improve the S&T planning and execution processes at ONR. The committee also learned that congressional add-ons constitute a significant fraction of the ONR funding for naval aviation S&T -- a cause for concern since the funding for these projects supplants core S&T program funding and distorts strategic planning by inserting short-term, unanticipated projects that historically have not resulted in new capabilities for naval aviation.
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... The strategic S&T planning processes of both the Army and the Air Force contain much that the committee believes could help the Navy in its planning process. Finding 4.
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... As ONR develops a naval aviation strategic S&T plan, consideration should be given to the following disruptive aviation capabilities, each of which can be traced to at least one of the four components -- Sea Shield, Sea Strike, Sea Basing, and FORCEnet -- of Naval Power 21: · Multispectral defense, · Unmannned air operations, · Hypersonic weapons delivery, · Fast-kill weapons, · Heavy-lift air transport, · Intelligent combat information management, and · Omniscient intelligence. Science and technologies in which ONR could pursue advances to enable each of these capabilities are discussed in Chapter 3.
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... A cadre of systems analysis personnel who can interface between the mission capability analysis personnel at OPNAV and the Navy Warfare Development Command and the scientists and technologists at ONR is needed to support strategic planning for naval aviation S&T. Recommendation 7.
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