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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2 Creating the 2035 Naval Forces
2 Creating the 2035 Naval Forces
Pages 8-19
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The Navy and the Marine Corps must make joint modernization plans based on jointly formulated concepts of operation; their missions are overlapping and complementary, and they will be operating and fighting together much of the time.
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Review of an illustrative example (in Chapter 8) shows that a feasible evolutionary path, accounting for past and current investments in durable systems over their useful service lives, can be followed that will lead to the revolutionary new naval force capabilities that the force restructuring will bring into being.
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Information in Warfare The display screen used by the commander, from the CINC to the unit commander, with the information on it, the links to sources of information, the sensors and processing nodes that acquire and develop the information, and the links to weapons and their guidance to targets constitute essential parts of a warfighting system just as much as the ships, aircraft, and combat battalions of the Navy and Marine Corps. Although the quest for information advantage is a factor in all engagements at all force levels, "information superiority" overall must be considered a warfare area analogous to antisubmarine warfare (ASW)
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In modern times, however, technology has changed the nature of information warfare significantly, and it continues to do so. Information includes classical intelligence, and information warfare includes classical electronic warfare with electronic countermeasures and counter-countermeasures; their inclusion in the larger aggregation does not imply a diminution of their importance.
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Vigorous and successful investment in these capabilities would lead to a "virtual increase" of considerable magnitude in naval force personnel. Naval force program and personnel managers are aware that investment in an improved quality of life for Navy and Marine Corps personnel and their families is essential for retention and readiness.
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proves itself and the forces gain confidence that the anticipated benefits will be realized. The Navy's "arsenal ship" initiates and exemplifies the concept of a ship powerfully armed with missiles of the kind described, and others, to be available for the fleet to engage opposing forces pinpointed by the naval forces' joint targeting system.
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Aircraft providing close air support will add locally to the high volume of surface-launched fire support to help sustain the rapid pace of future ground operations. New aircraft engine, structures, and flight-control technologies are expected to reduce the weight penalty for the short or vertical takeoff and vertical landing capability of fixed-wing aircraft.
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At some point, in less time than it will take the United States to catch up again, hostile submarines in this environment could be in a position to seriously inhibit operational maneuvers from the sea. Attention and funding to a level sufficient for the following tasks will have the greatest payoff for ASW: · Extending the opportunities for passive detection, by taking advantage of advances in microsensors and fiber optics for very large sensor arrays and advanced computing to perform coherent signal processing; · Applying the array signal processing mathematics and computing developed thereby to multistatic, active detection and tracking; · Pursuing multispectrum active and passive nonacoustic sensors in parallel with acoustic sensor development;
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Improving antisubmarine weapons and counterweapons, with special attention to advanced warheads and performance in adverse littoral environments against sophisticated countermeasures and tactics. Even with the increasing attention being given to countermine warfare by the naval forces, rapid minefield clearance to protect shipping areas and to facilitate over-the-shore naval force operations remains a difficult problem.
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The new doctrines and methods for "lean" force operations will increase that risk because they call for reducing dependence on large and usually overstocked forward supply bases in the theater of operations, and increasing reliance on delivery of supplies from their source when needed and as needed. The 1996 regional conflict study referred to above describes in some detail how the logistic system must be reengineered to accomplish this during operational maneuvers from sea to shore and for some period thereafter.
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Shifting much of the strike and fire support from unguided bombs and shells to more frequent use of guided weaponry, and from airlaunched to tube-launched weapons, is expected to significantly reduce the time required to defeat large target complexes and is therefore likely to affect ammunition resupply requirements for ships at sea and forces ashore in currently unpredictable ways. An exploration of the potential changes in resupply requirements entailed in the extensive use of precision weapons must be undertaken as part of the planning for the reengineered logistic system.
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These areas are all similar in that they make timely and sometimes rapid progress by steadily building on successive advances in specific technical areas, with periodic application of the advances to a major product development when new levels of capability have been achieved. Other unique areas requiring special Navy efforts in R&D include oceanography and ASW.
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