Written by: 1/23/2012 3:44 PM
“We’ve placed a priority on shipbuilding,” Sean Stackley, the Navy’s top acquisition official, told reporters last week. “You can see a lot of alignment between the defense strategy and what the Navy does.”
This is good news, especially when you consider the DoD’s recently released report, “Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense”, which outlines a strategic focus on the Pacific and heighten concern in areas of Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) - where the Navy’s intent is to credibly deter aggression and to keep waterways safe and free.
Given all of this, the Navy and its science, technology, and engineering will be on display now more than ever as it becomes more important to project power and providing a stabilizing presence on a global scale.
To that end, naval engineering received a little plug during the Surface Navy Associations National Symposium 2012 which occurred January 10-12, 2012. It was very interested in hearing ADM Greenert's comments regarding his support for pushing the engineering the Navy needs as he spoke to an audience at the event.
"...We need to continue pushing, unmanned, underwater vehicles, especially autonomous, that can go out and search an area out for mine warfare and as an ASW Sensor very much needed, electronic attack, electronic warfare...need to look for opportunities to take engineering design modules out there and get them tested...I will support that.”
It is safe to say that we in the naval engineering community support that as well and we recognize the importance. It’s becoming more clear the Navy and what they do gaining more focus and as ship get more complex, the biggest challenge facing the US Navy in 2012 would not appear to be one of ships or even ship designs, rather the ability of the Navy to manage acquisition programs for the “systems” intend to be the primary capabilities of tomorrows fleet.
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