Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035: Becoming a 21st-Century Force Volume 1: Overview (1997) / Chapter Skim
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6 Anticipated U.S. Naval Force Capabilities: 2000-2035
6 Anticipated U.S. Naval Force Capabilities: 2000-2035
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The naval forces themselves will need a clear view of the capabilities they will have available, what the forces will be required to do, and how they will perform those tasks. THE EMERGING SHAPE OF THE FUTURE NAVAL FORCES Technologies Available Naval forces represent a combination of people and machines from ships and aircraft to microprocessors that allow and help people to do things that would be impossible without the leverage the machines provide.
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This study's Panel on Technology identified nine major technology clusters that are transforming all of modern economic and social life, and that will affect naval force capability profoundly. These technology areas are listed in Table 6.1, together with examples of the component technologies within each major cluster.
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Technologies for Modeling and simulation; simulation-based system design and acquienterprise processes sition; rapid prototyping; agile manufacturing; logistics management; resource planning; dynamic mission planning; simulated theater of war; systems engineering; cognitive process modeling (all contribute major economic benefits)
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ANTICIPATED U.S. NAVAL FORCE CAPABILITIES: 2000-2035 45 TABLE 6.2 Capabilities Enabled by Technologies Operational Capability Component Capabilities Contributing Technologies Information-based Large-scale networking Information technologies; conduct of Complete situational awareness sensors; computation; warfare and C4ISR Resource and mission planning automation; environmental Targeting measurement; enterprise Information warfare processes; geospatial Efficient and Advanced health and casualty care Human performance; effective use of BW/CW detection and counters computation; sensors; naval force Distributed training and education automation; information personnel System design for smaller crews enterprise processes Longer retention of a more professional force "Smart" systems Extensively instrumented and automated Computation; information and "systems platforms, engine controls, automatically automation; sensors; of systems" controlled machinery all leading to materials; environment; more efficient use of personnel human performance; Instruments associated with personnel geospatial equipment and clothing, enabling people to sense and do more Unmanned systems Unmanned aerial vehicles Information; computation; Unmanned underwater vehicles automation; power and Spacecraft propulsion; materials; Recoverable unmanned weapon delivery sensors platforms Advanced weapon Ships, aircraft, submarines Power and propulsion; platforms Missiles, torpedoes materials; computation; sensors; enterprise processes Advanced weapon "Smart" detection and guidance Sensors; computation; systems Automatic target recognition information; automation; Multistatic missile, mine, and submarine materials; environment; detection enterprise processes Effective attack on target coordinates First-pass target damage assessment Enhanced Low observables and signature management Computation; materials; survivability Absorbent materials, shaping, automation; sensors; of major platforms active cancellation information Reduced personnel needs Cost reduction Infrastructure operations: simulation-based Information; computation; in acquisition, design; rapid prototyping, agile automation; human sustainability, manufacturing; lower production costs; performance; enterprise and logistics efficient logistics management processes Sustainability: in logistic support; in survival technologies and capabilities Environmental Accurate ocean and weather condition Information; sensors; sensing forecasting environment; geospatial and management Clean ships and bases Modeling and System design Information; computation; simulation System acquisition human performance Operational planning Realistic training and testing
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However, the forces' operating doctrines and methods, their internal arrangements, and the character of their components may be expected to change radically over the coming decades, so that beneath the obvious surface similarities the naval forces in 2035 will work and be constituted differently from today's forces. The following picture of 2035 naval forces that can be brought into being emerges from a synthesis of the trends in technology and the environment reviewed above.
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· Technology and the necessities of force design in an austere fiscal environment are likely to move carriers, versatile as they are today, even further toward becoming multipurpose air bases at sea. They will operate aircraft for air superiority, direct support of troops in combat, antisubmarine warfare, and mine countermeasures; they will launch amphibious operations; and they will operate unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and target acquisition.
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that the naval forces themselves undertake as their contribution to joint and combined operations in expeditionary warfare, as well as the joint and coalition partners' inputs to naval force operations and security. The latter contributions will include intelligence and surveillance data and processed information inputs derived from spacecraft and high-altitude, long-endurance aerial vehicles; many elements of the communications networks the naval forces will use; delivery of weapons with heavy warheads against targets essential to naval force and overall mission success; boost-phase intercept of tactical ballistic missiles that may threaten the naval forces; and many elements of logistics and base support.
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Sustaining forward presence as instruments of U.S. foreign policy, and using that forward presence for friendly engagement with the governments and armed forces of allied or neutral countnes; for operations other than war, such as surveillance of drug-smuggling routes and protection of refugee relief efforts in hostile environments; and to maintain readiness to respond to international cnses; Participating in information operations in a multitude of ways, from simply gathering strategically and tactically useful information to observing longrange missile tests impacting the sea, or mon~tonng hostile transmissions and engaging in other aspects of information warfare; · Establishing and maintaining blockades to prevent supply and support of hostile powers or forces; · Deternng and defeating attacks on the United States and our allies, deternng attacks on friendly nations, and, in particular, sustaining a sea-based nuclear deterrent force; · Projecting national military power through modern expeditionary warfare, including: Conducting strategic movement of troops and supplies; Attacking land and sea targets from the sea; Acquinng advanced bases, landing troops ashore, and subsequently supporting the troops with sea-based firepower and with logistic supply; Dominating local seas and littorals to protect the forward operations and their logistic support, by simple presence or successful combat against opposing forces; Sustained combat at sea and on land, when necessary; · Ensunng global freedom of the seas, airspace, and space; and · Operating in joint and combined settings in all these missions.
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Assimilation and effective and timely use of the wealth of information available, integration of coalition forces into our own information operations, and defense against information warfare attack will constitute the biggest challenge to successful force operation, because without solving these technical and opposition threats to information superiority, the forces will not be able to operate as effectively as they need to operate against potential opposition. Operations, especially information gathering, processing, and dissemination, will be joint, as will many of the systems operated by the naval forces or for their operational benefit.
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Much more naval force logistic support will be based at sea than has been the case in the past. Finally, the ground forces will use novel weapons, systems, and techniques that can mitigate the destruction and high friendly and civilian casualties that go with fighting in populated areas.
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