Naval Transformation: Background and Issues for Congress

Abstract

The Department of the Navy (DON) has several efforts underway to transform U.S. naval forces to prepare them for future military challenges. The Navy has organized these efforts under a conceptual framework called Sea Power 21. Key elements of naval transformation include a focus on operating in littoral waters, network-centric operations, use of unmanned vehicles, reducing personnel requirements, directly launching and supporting expeditionary operations ashore from sea bases, new kinds of naval formations, new ship-deployment approaches, and streamlined and reformed business practices. Naval transformation poses several potential issues for Congress.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 10, 2005
Accession Number
ADA435323

Entities

People

  • Ronald O'Rourke

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Amphibious Ships
  • Area Denial
  • Computer Networks
  • Congress
  • Cooperative Engagement Capability
  • Deployment
  • Littoral Combat Ships
  • Marine Corps
  • National Security
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy