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May 17, 2016
Day 2
Event Schedule
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Adm. John M. Richardson, chief of naval operations, speaks during the Service Chiefs' Update panel
May 16 at the Navy League’s 2016 Sea‐Air‐Space Exposition. At his left are Gen. Robert B. Neller, com‐
mandant of the Marine Corps; Adm. Paul F. Zukunft, commandant of the Coast Guard; Paul N.
Jaenichen, maritime administrator; and moderator Bradley Peniston, Defense One deputy editor.
Service Chiefs Stress Partnerships,
Need to Accelerate Acquisition
By OTTO KREISHER,
Seapower Special Correspondent
The nation’s top naval and maritime leaders listed an array of concerns about their abilities to carry out
their missions, with a lot of the focus
on tight budgets, limited resources,
the need to speed up the acquisition
process and improve how they retain,
educate and train their vital personnel.
In the opening session of the Navy
League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition
at National Harbor, Md., May 16, the
leaders of the Navy, Marine Corps,
Coast Guard and Maritime Administration also stressed the importance
of building and strengthening partnerships — with their fellow services, with the rest of the federal
government, with international allies
and partners, and with industry and
academia.
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ing security challenges they face —
China’s aggressive claims to the South
China Sea — Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John M. Richardson; Marine Corps Commandant Gen.
Robert B. Neller and Coast Guard
Commandant Adm. Paul F. Zukunft
stressed the importance of adherence
to the rules and norms of international
conduct that allow all nations to use
the global maritime commons.
Zukunft added to that by urging the
next administration to fight for ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which
every president since Ronald Reagan
has supported, but which the Senate
has refused to approve.
Richardson noted the increasing demands on the global maritime and information networks, which he said
created greater requirement for partnerships, starting with the Navy’s
■ 7:45‐8:45 a.m.: Congressional
Breakfast, Potomac CD
■ 9 & 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m.: Cooking
demonstrations, NAVSUP Booth
1305
■ 9‐10:30 a.m.: Information
Warfare: Security Challenges &
Solutions in the Maritime Domain,
Potomac AB
■ 9:30‐10 a.m.: T‐AGS 66 Moon
Pool Launch and Retrieval System,
NAVSEA Booth 1227
■ 9:30‐10:30 a.m.: Additive
Manufacturing, NAVAIR Booth 2327
■ 10‐10:30 a.m.: Expeditionary Mo‐
bile Base, NAVSEA Booth 1227
■ 10‐11 a.m.: Leveraging
Partnerships Within DoD to
Enhance Expeditionary Readiness in
the Naval Construction Force, NECC
Booth 2815
■ 10:30‐11:00 a.m. DDG 51 Pro‐
gram Update, NAVSEA Booth 1227
■ 10:30‐11:30 a.m.: PEO (U&W)
Programs, NAVAIR Booth 2327
■ 10:30‐11:30 a.m.: Making
Distributed Lethality a Reality –
Raytheon Solutions, Chesapeake 7
■ 10:30‐11:30 a.m.: Department of
Navy Additive Manufacturing:
Current Status, Planned Projects &
Future Efforts, National Harbor 12
■ 10:30‐11:30 a.m.: Warfighter
Insights & Energy Efficiency’s Role
in Emergent Technologies, National
Harbor 13
■ 10:45‐11:30 a.m.: IW Type
Command, IW Pavilion 2639
■ 10:45 a.m.‐noon: FMS
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Paxton: USMC Will Need End Strength ‘North of 186,800’
By OTTO KREISHER, Seapower Special Correspondent
To meet all the manpower demands created by current
operations, the rise of near peer competitors and the requirement for new capabilities, such as cyber and information warfare, the Marine Corps believes it will need an end
strength “somewhat north of 186,800,” the Corps’ No. 2 officer said May 16.
Speaking to reporters after his Sea Services Luncheon
keynote address at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition at National Harbor, Md., Gen. John M. Paxton Jr., the
assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, said the size
and composition of the future Corps is being studied in a
process labeled Force 2025.
Two committees are studying those force structure issues
from opposing viewpoints, and their suggestions will be examined by a high-level group in coming months, Paxton
said. Then some of the proposed concepts will be tested in
exercises at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and Twentynine Palms,
Calif., and by the designated experimental battalion, which
is Third Battalion Fifth Marines.
Although the Corps is slated under current budget projections to drop to 182,000 Marines, Paxton said “we’d like
to get north of 186,8[00].”
A Marine force study review nearly a decade ago said the
Corps needed 186,800 Marines. But that was before the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, the emergence of cyber, information warfare and other new requirements, he said.
Although Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert B.
Neller has said providing the new skills could require cuts
to the conventional warfighting units, Paxton said, “cutting
the conventional forces is not a given.”
The higher end strength would give the Corps the
Marines it will need for its expanding Special Operations
Force, the new skills and for conventional forces, he said.
While Force 2025 looks at organizational factors, a
rewrite of Expeditionary Force 21 will deal with operational issues, Paxton said.
In his keynote address, Paxton noted the new challenges
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Improvements – Enabling the
Enterprise, Cherry Blossom
Ballroom
■ 10:45 a.m.‐noon: Strengthen Naval
Power At & From Sea
roundtable, Potomac D
■ 11‐11:30 a.m.: Unified Build
Strategy for Submarines, NAVSEA
Booth 1227
■ 12:15‐1:45 p.m.: Sea‐Air‐Space
Luncheon with Defense Secretary
Ashton Carter, Potomac AB
■ 1‐2 p.m.: Navy MWR: Fitness and
Library Programs, NAVFAC Booth 1145
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Gen. John M. Paxton Jr., assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, during
his keynote address at the Sea Services Luncheon, said the emergence of
two “near peer competitors,” the growiing importance of cyber and the con‐
tinuing threat of terrorist organizations creates challenges in technology,
equipment and manpower.
the Corps faces, with the emergence of two “near peer competitors,” meaning Russia and China, the growing importance of cyber and the continuing threat of terrorist
organizations.
That creates challenges in technology, equipment and
manpower, which creates a challenge to get the resources
needed to obtain them, he said.
■ 2‐3 p.m.: PEO (A) Platforms,
NAVAIR Booth 2327
■ 2‐2:45 p.m.: SPAWAR Update,
IW Pavilion 2639
■ 2‐3 p.m.: Achieving High‐Velocity
Learning at Every Level roundtable,
Potomac C
■ 2‐3:15 p.m.: Strengthening Our
Navy Team for the Future roundtable,
Potomac D
■ 3‐3:45 p.m.: Navy Cyber Resilience
& Cyber Security, IW Pavilion 2639
■ 3‐4 p.m.: Precision Strike Weapons,
NAVAIR Booth 2327
■ 3‐3:45 p.m.: Designing and
Delivering the Future, IW Pavilion 2639
■ 3:30‐4 p.m.: LCS Mission Package
Update, NAVSEA Booth 1227
■ 3:30‐4:30 p.m.: Energy Capability
Gaps & Warfighter Needs, National
Harbor 13
■ 3:30‐4:45 p.m.: Recruit, Train,
Retain: Manpower in the 21st Century
roundtable, Potomac C
■ 3:30‐4:45 p.m.: Transnational
Organized Crime roundtable,
Potomac D
■ 6‐7:30 p.m.: Sea‐Air‐Space
Reception, Exhibit Hall
■ 7:45‐10 p.m.: Sea‐Air‐Space
Banquet w/Adm. John M. Richardson,
Potomac AB
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Partnerships, Promoting R&D
Critical to Future Capabilities
By DAISY R. KHALIFA,
Seapower Special Correspondent
A panel of military of experts
drawn from industry as well as the
militaries of Canada, the United
Kingdom and Romania discussed expanding global partnerships while
advocating for more scientific collaboration and industry partnerships
within and between allied nations at
a May 16 Sea-Air-Space roundtable.
The panelists all took time to emphasize the strategic and economical
importance of ties with international
allies and partners in a modern and
digital era, a pursuit further reinforced by ongoing research and development in military labs and with
academia on a global level, and the
defense community’s critically important partnerships and collaborations with industry.
“In order for me to do my job,
there has to be a very close partnership with the operational community
as well as the scientific and technical
community,” said John Burrow, the
U.S. Navy’s deputy assistant secretary for Research, Development, Test
and Evaluation (RDT&E).
Burrow said Navy RDT&E works
with the Office of Naval Research to
try to identify established relationships
and to work with international partners to identify emerging science and
technology that has military applications — technologies both to address
gaps seen in military R&D today and
also to advance military capability.
“I think you would all agree that the
emerging capabilities both in the scientific and technological worlds are
worldwide now,” said Burrow. “We
have to able to identify and understand the military application associated with it, adapt it, prototype it and
use it to help make some very critical
decisions on future capabilities.”
Joining Burrow for the roundtable
discussion, “Expanding & Strengthening Our Networkd of Partners,”
were Adm. Sir Philip Andrew Jones,
First Sea Lord of the U.K. Royal
Navy; William E. Taylor, program
executive officer, Land Systems Marine Corps; Retired U.S. Navy Vice
Adm. Paul Sullivan, executive director, Defense Related Research Units
and Applied Research Laboratory,
Pennsylvania State University; Vice
Adm. Mark Norman, commander of
the Royal Canadian Navy; Rear
Adm. Alexandru Mirsu, chief of Romanian Naval Forces Staff; retired
U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Joseph Dyer,
a consultant in technology, aerospace and defense; and, Jim Young,
U.S. Navy account manager for
Google Inc.’s Department of Defense team. Vice Adm. John
Aquilino, deputy chief of naval operations, Operations, Plans & Strategies, served as moderator.
Jones said the requirement to expand and strengthen the network of
partners is critically important to the
Royal Navy. “[This] is something that
underpins the Royal Navy and drives
our thinking forward,” said Jones. “It
is absolutely fundamental and I believe it needs to be for all navies who
have an ambition to evolve into the
future using partnerships.”
He said it is “an exciting time” for
the Royal Navy, which has invested in
a whole range of high-end capabilities, introducing new nuclear-deterrent
systems, and modernizing much of the
rest of the fleet and the Royal
Marines’ capability. He said to in
order to optimize military capabilities
and to address increasing global military challenges, navies must work
closely with international partners by
combining capabilities as effectively
as possible, and through the pursuit of
innovative and novel technologies.
“Despite the considerable investment that is being made, it is very
clear to me that as you go forward —
and we see this in common with
many other navies — we have to respond to a growing number of global
security challenges, and do so with
resources which are finite in terms of
both money but also people and skill
resources,” Jones said.
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tight ties with the Marine Corps and
their joint commitment to “use our resources as creatively as possible.”
Somewhat surprisingly, the CNO
did not mention the chronic budgetary
strains on the Navy, but spoke at
length about the need to improve the
way the Navy adapts to rapidly changing technology, with better ways to
educate its Sailors and leaders.
Neller said the Corps currently is
meeting its global demands, but “the
depth of the force, the bench, is
stressed,” after 15 years of war and
dropping end strength. He also noted
the severe readiness problems with
Marine aviation, which is struggling
with aging tactical aircraft as it waits
for more F-35B Lightning II strike
fighters.
Neller also expressed concern about
the ability to recruit and train enough
Marines for the future fight.
Zukunft was surprisingly “bullish”
on the Coast Guard’s condition, noting
that his procurement budget doubled
in the current year, enabling the service to expand its National Security
Cutter program to nine ships, to build
58 Fast Response Cutters and upgrade
its command-and-control and fixedwing aircraft systems. He said the
Coast Guard this summer would
award the biggest ship construction
program in its history, for the Offshore
Patrol Cutters.
Maritime Administrator Paul N.
Jaenichen issued a dire warning on
the state of the Merchant Marine fleet,
saying the 79 U.S.-flag ships are the
fewest in history and the sharp drop
in licensed mariners threatened the
ability to conduct a military sealift
mission if a conflict lasted more than
four months.
The three service leaders emphasized the need to accelerate the acquisition process to keep up with
technological advances and advocated
more willingness to experiment and to
fail in the hope of getting new systems
into use quicker.
But while sharing in the commitment to restrain their requirements,
Neller told the industry representatives in the audience that when the
services pay for new equipment, “it
has to work” and come on time.
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Cyber Command Aims for ‘Speed, Agility, Precision’
By NICK ADDE,
Seapower Special Correspondent
Commanders know they no longer
should assume that they possess a
cyber capability greater than their potential adversaries. Less clear is how
they should adapt to this change. The
Fleet Cyber Command has the answer.
“The plan is being revised,” said
Vice Adm. Jan E. Tighe, commander
of Fleet Cyber Command/10th Fleet.
Speaking May 16 at the Navy
League’s States Sea-Air-Space Exposition at National Harbor, Md., Tighe
outlined a “shift from information
dominance to information warfare.”
Recognizing that China, Russia,
North Korea, Iran and terrorist organizations probably have the capability to
inflict at least some damage on cyber
systems, the command she oversees
will “now [focus] more on speed,
agility and precision,” and the “ability
to maneuver rapidly,” Tighe said.
“The margin of victory is razor thin,
and we cannot accept anything short
of victory on any day. We will fight to
defend our networks, and stay ahead
of our adversaries,” Tighe said.
Citing the fictional story depicted
in the movie “The Martian,” Tighe described how its characters worked together to resolve many problems one
step at a time. “We will overcome
with the same attitude and approach,”
she said.
The cyber network will operate as a
warfighting platform. Cyber warriors
will operate, maintain and defend it
using the same tools they use every
day. Support for users will be tailored
to those users.
“Every user that has fingers on a
keyboard” will play a role as well,
Tighe said.
Keys to success include greater involvement on the part of commanders,
and sustained recruitment to ensure
that the right people are brought in to
learn and operate the systems.
As the process keeps evolving, the
distinction between cyber and electromagnetic warfare will become less divided and distinct. Cultural biases
already are starting to disintegrate,
particularly at the command level,
given the increased awareness in the
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Vice Adm. Jan E. Tighe tells expo attendees dur‐
ing a briefing at the IW Pavilion that the cyber
network will operate as a warfighting platform .
importance of the cyber security mission, Tighe said.
Younger Sailors, who grew up with
an IT presence virtually their entire
lives, will help accelerate the learning
process as well, Tighe said.
Upgrades Keep Navy Air-to-Air Weapons on Cutting Edge
By WILLIAM MATTHEWS,
Seapower Special Correspondent
One of the missiles is 8 years old, the other is pushing
30. But steady technology upgrades have kept these two
Navy air-to-air weapons on the cutting edge.
The younger one is the AIM-9X Block II. The older is
the AIM-120D AMRAAM — advanced medium-range
air-to-air missile.
The 9X Block II was introduced in 2008, but did not
go into full rate production until 2015. It’s the latest
member of the Sidewinder missile family that dates back
to the mid-1970s.
The 9X Block II can do things its predecessors could
hardly have imagined. For example, it is equipped with a
360-degree engagement capability and a data link, said
Capt. Jim Stoneman, chief of the Navy’s Air-to-Air Missiles Program Office. That enables a pilot to fire the missile first and then aim it at a target.
“The pilot can shoot and then pass more information to
the missile” via the data link to vector the missile to a target, Stoneman said during a briefing May 16 at the 2016
Sea-Air-Space Exposition. The missile’s 360-degree capability enables it to engage targets — even those behind
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the aircraft, he said.
On some planes, such as the F-35 Lightning II Joint
Strike Fighter, pilots will be able to aim the missiles
using sights built into their helmets.
Although the Sidewinder was developed as a shortrange missile meant for close-in kills, the Block II’s
range has been “about doubled,” Stoneman said, making
it into a “beyond-visual-range” weapon.
A Block III version of the 9X is on the drawing board,
but for now remains unfunded, Stoneman said.
The AIM-120D is the latest version of the AMRAAM,
which the Navy and Air Force have used since 1987. The
D model also features a data link that enables a pilot to
fire the missile and then send it targeting information,
Stoneman said.
It has an improved Global Positioning System guidance system and enhanced anti-jamming capabilities to
shield in the midst of enemy electronic warfare. After
several years of testing, the 120D is now making its way
to the fleet, Stoneman said.
Software upgrades are under way, and those should
further increase the capability of the “Delta” model, he
said. For now, there are no plans for a follow-on missile,
he said.
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NAVAIR Leverages Simulation for Aircraft Training
By EVAMARIE SOCHA,
Seapower Special Correspondent
While other programs have seen
spending flatten, roughly $800 million
to $900 million more in training simulators have come from program manager sponsors’ pockets, the head of
Naval Air Systems Command’s
(NAVAIR’s) Training Systems Division said during a May 16 briefing.
Meanwhile, Live-Virtual-Constructive still is developing to fill in
the gaps that simulation training
leaves behind, said Capt. Erik Etz,
commanding officer of the division
and also of Naval Support Activity in
Orlando, Fla.
The NAVAIR Training Systems Division will see about $1.2 billion in
spending this year, Etz said. Training
funding tends to have an ebb and flow,
he said during his address at the 2016
Sea-Air-Space Exposition at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention
Center at National Harbor, Md., but
NAVAIR remains “at the forefront of
simulation and training” across aviation, surface and undersea operations
and cross-warfare, Etz said.
There has not been a corresponding
increase in flight-hour budgets, Etz
said, which remains costly and logistically difficult, so more money is good
as more operations training is done in
simulation.
A former F/A-18 pilot, Etz noted
“the precious time in aircraft ... is
valuable to execute like you would
want to fight,” so basic operation and
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Capt. Erik Etz, head of Naval Air Systems Command’s Training Systems Division, tells an audience at the
command’s booth on the expo floor that “the precious time in aircraft ... is valuable to execute like you
would want to fight.”
handling are done with simulation. He
said, for instance, about 70 percent to
80 percent of student training on the P8A Poseidon upgrade from the P-3
Orion is done on a simulator.
To that end, Etz said solutions under
Live-Virtual-Constructive, or LVC,
still are in initial stages. LVC is a set
of measures to address gaps in simulators’ designs.
“We all recognize that (LVC) needs
to engage the user across all service
platforms,” Etz said. “I believe the efforts in that area will continue.”
“Intelligent tutoring,” for instance,
is one method being deployed. It includes algorithms that analyze how a
student is learning and making deci-
sions, Etz said, and adapts the training
program accordingly.
In other NAVAIR news:
■ Multipurpose Reconfigurable Training Systems have seen a considerable
drop in cost, Etz said, a boon to undersea programs training.
■ Research and technology developments are looking at gaming devices
as potential solutions as new Sailors,
with fresh experience from video
games, come in.
■ More immersive training steps may
be next for E-Sailor, a program looking to provide early Sailor training via
tablets. Etz said this program still is in
prototype but remains positive about
its future.
Video Game Proficiency Helps Young Sailors Adapt Quickly
By EVAMARIE SOCHA, Seapower Special Correspondent
Hours wasted on video games? Not for the newest
Sailors, whose hours of video play make them fast adapters
to the Navy’s trainers and simulators, the head of Naval Air
Systems Command’s (NAVAIR’s) training division said
May 16.
“The current generation has taken to training technology,
thanks to video games,” said Capt. Erik Etz, commanding officer of Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division
and the Naval Support Activity in Orlando, Fla. Such fresh
Sailors understand how to execute the systems with ease,
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fleet commanders report and pick up on the training fast,
making them proficient faster in their duties and operations.
So fast, in fact, NAVAIR’s research and technology arm
is looking at current gaming devices as potential training
sets, Etz said during his talk at the 2016 Sea-Air-Space Exposition at the Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center, National Harbor, Md.
NAVAIR already is using “intelligent tutoring,” technology that uses algorithms to analyze how the trainee makes a
decision and is learning and adapts to fill in any gaps.
Naval Support Activity Orlando is the hub for simulation
and training, to include the Army and Marine Corps.
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Navy Looking at Ways to Harness More Power
By WILLIAM H. McMICHAEL,
Seapower Special Correspondent
Steve Markle had to manually regulate electric power
from two diesel generators when he was qualifying as the
engineering officer of the watch aboard the USS Orion back
in 1986.
That task is now automated on the Navy’s newer ships.
The future, however, is demanding much more capability.
Markle, a retired commander who now is the program
manager of the Navy’s Electric Ships Office, is challenging industry to come up with technology that can generate
far more power than currently demanded, and keep it flowing and evenly dispersed on the next generation of ships
— particularly the warships that will carry the electromagnetic railgun.
“What we need to do is to look at a new way so that we
can use the installed power on the ship and put it anywhere
we need it,” Markle said May 16 during briefing to industry
representatives at the 2016 Sea-Air-Space Exposition.
That need is at the heart of developing integrated power
and energy systems, or IPES. “We’re integrating energy storage with a power system … that’s the future,” Markle said.
What he also wants to see developed is a 20-to-30megawatt gas turbine generator that will fit in a warship of
less than 10,000 tons — a medium surface combatant — and
is shorter than the 50-foot-long generator on DDG 1000,
the Zumwalt. “Something on the order of 40 feet,” he said.
A ship’s power system, Markle explained afterward, “is
driven by what the combat capability of the ship requires.”
Ships that will be getting advanced weapons and sensors
will obviously require far more electrical power than is currently widely generated.
“But it’s got to be the right power,” Markle said.
Some ships, he said, put as much as 80 percent of their
power into reduction gears that turn the shaft. For instance,
a DDG 51 destroyer sends the equivalent of about 75
megawatts installed power to the gears. Three separate 3megawatt gas turbine generators power everything else —
lights, galley, weapons systems and radars, he said.
Future ships will have a much greater appetite for electricity, Markle said.
“Radars today are megawatt-size,” he said. “Radars tomorrow are going to be multi-megawatt. Railgun: teens,
20s of megawatts of power.”
Meanwhile, development of the futuristic railgun is moving quickly.
“We want to have this ready in the 2020 timeframe,” said
Cmdr. Carl Carney of the Office of Naval Research, another exhibitor.
Specific industry questions on what Markle wants to see
proposed will be addressed at the American Society of
Naval Engineers Advanced Machinery Technology Symposium, being held May 25 and 26 at Villanova University,
and at the Naval Surface Warfare Command Industry Day
taking place Aug. 3 in Philadelphia, Markle said.
“Will it be viable?” Markle said. “Industry needs to tell
me that. Right now, I think it is.”
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Benjamin Moyd, intelligence analyst with NGA, discusses the Proteus, a dual‐mode underwater vehicle, with Karl Lindman, a Huntington Ingalls
Industries engineer, in the Huntington Ingalls Industries exhibit at the Sea‐Air‐Space Exposition May 16.
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U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Mathias Winter, speaks during the International Naval Leadership Panel: Naval Technology 2025 & Beyond panel May 16. At his right
are Dr. Nicholas Joad, Rear Adm. Harris Chan and Adm. Bento Costa Lima Leite De Albuquerque Junior. At his left are Dale Reding, Rear Adm. José Joaquin
Amézquita and Jamie Watson.
International Naval Panel Stresses Collaboration
To Solve Common Science and Technology Concerns
By OTTO KREISHER, Seapower Special Correspondent
A panel of naval officers and civilian officials from the
United States and five partner nations cited lists of similar
issues and concerns about the science and technology
problems confronting their services and stressed the importance of collaboration among friendly nations to expedite solutions.
In a panel at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition at National Harbor, Md., nearly all the officials listed
cyber and electronic warfare as crucial issues, but some
added more exotic concerns such as enhancing human performance, use of autonomous systems in place of shrinking
numbers of service-age citizens, and space and information
systems.
Introducing the panel, Rear Adm. Mathias Winter, director
of the Office of Naval Research (ONR), said science and
technology cannot solve every problem but collaboration in
science and technology was important so “when we have a
complex problem to solve, we’re not starting from zero.”
The visiting officials, from Australia, Brazil, Canada,
Colombia, Singapore and the United Kingdom, all mentioned the value of collaboration to help resolve the emerging problems their navies face, with several emphasizing
the importance of their relations with the U.S. Navy.
Jamie Watson, a former Royal Australian Naval Reserve officer, said Australia “can’t begin to match the
scale” of the U.S. science and technology programs, “but
we can be a partner,” and avoid replicating efforts on
common problems.
Rear Adm. Harris Chan of Singapore said, “as we listen
to others, we see we have the same problems. … Collaboration is key to everything we do.”
Dale Reding from the Canadian Ministry of Defence said
success in collaboration “boils down to one thing — trust.
You have to trust your partners” to not only cooperate but
“trust them to critique” your programs.
Rear Adm. José Joaquin Amézquita of the Columbian
Navy, agreed with the overall view, but added: “We are
open to cooperation. We need to cooperate. But we need
action.”
Winter agreed with that view.
Winter followed his colleagues with a detailed description of ONR’s extensive $2.1 billion a year science and
technology program, which is divided into efforts aimed at
short-term solutions to urgent operational problems to longterm basic research that may contribute to systems 20 years
in the future.
Next-Gen Jammer to Complete Critical Design Review in March
By DANIEL P. TAYLOR,
Seapower Special Correspondent
The Next-Generation Jammer is on
track to complete its critical design review (CDR) next March, and the program is just about to delve into the
subsystems in the next month in
preparation for that, the program manager said during a briefing May 16.
Capt. John Bailey said at the SeaAir-Space Exposition that before the
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system-wide CDR can be completed,
the program must first do a CDR for
all the subsystems, such as the array
and the power generation and every
other aspect of the system.
“This year we are completing our
subsystem CDRs — as early as next
month, actually,” Bailey said. “We’ll
be doing those individual subsystem
CDRs starting about next month all
the way through next year.”
He said that should lead up to the
system-wide CDR wrapping up in the
second quarter of fiscal 2017, or more
specifically around March.
Raytheon is the lead on the NextGeneration Jammer program after
winning the competition in 2013 to replace legacy ALQ-99 systems used on
EA-18G electronic attack aircraft. The
company was awarded a $1 billion engineering and manufacturing development contract earlier this year. The
Navy hopes to field the pod in 2019.
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Call for Movement on National Maritime Strategy
By WILLIAM H. McMICHAEL,
Seapower Special Correspondent
There are but 79 merchant ships that
fly the U.S. flag — a 25 percent decline over the past four years.
China has thousands.
“We no longer command trade,”
Don Marcus, president of the International Organization of Masters, Mates
& Pilots, said May 16 during a roundtable discussion on the National Maritime Strategy at the 2016 Sea-AirSpace Exposition, being held at the
Gaylord Convention Center at National Harbor, Md.
“No doubt, we have the world’s
most powerful Navy,” Marcus said.
“[But] we’re totally unprepared, at this
point, to project not only forces overseas in a logistical sense, but also to
protect our economic well-being.
“We’re no longer the world’s greatest trading nation,” he said. “That
honor falls to China. And to paraphrase Sir Walter Raleigh, ‘those that
command trade command the riches of
the world.’”
What’s needed, the four panelists
and the moderator, Maritime Administrator Paul N. “Chip” Jaenichen,
agreed, is a new National Maritime
Strategy. Such a policy, which will include recommendations for growing
the U.S. maritime industry and ensur-
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Jim Dwyer, left, director of planning, Maryland Port Administration, speaks during the National Mar‐
itime Strategy Roundtable May 16. To his left are Thomas Wynne, vice president and general counsel,
Interlake Steamship Co.; Phillip Shapiro, president and chief executive officer, Liberty Shipping; and
Donald Marcus, international president, International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots.
ing the availability of U.S.-flagged
vessels, has been written and reviewed.
It is now in the “government interagency review process,” Jaenichen said.
Translation, he said: It’s stalled at the
Office of Management and Budget.
“We’re about a year overdue at this
point,” Jaenichen said. “We’re still
hoping to get that out for public comment later this year.”
Merchant Mariners are a key element in the U.S. military’s overseas
logistics chain. U.S.-flag, privately
owned ships have moved more than 50
percent of all military cargo during the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Department of Transportation. The decline in the number of
those ships has a palpable effect,
Jaenichen said.
“When our presence on the high
seas declines, [the nation] forfeits its
ability to project power,” Jaenichen
said. “It also takes away our ability
to influence the outcomes globally
— not to mention the ability to make
sure we can secure our national interests through our ability to project
and sustain our armed forces, anywhere on Earth.”
Third Navy Operational Squadron in Transition to E-2D
By RICHARD R. BURGESS, Seapower Managing Editor
The Navy’s third operational carrier airborne early
squadron (VAW) has begun transition to the Northrop
Grumman-built E-2D Advanced Hawkeye radar warning
aircraft.
Jay Muhall, director for Global Business Development
for E-2/C-2 programs manager, told Seapower May 16 at
the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Expo at National Harbor,
Md., said that VAW-126 “has turned in the keys” to its E2C Hawkeyes and its personnel are in training awaiting delivery of their new aircraft.
VAW-126 is following VAW-125, the first squadron to
take the E-2D on a carrier deployment, and VAW-121,
which also has completed its transition.
Each E-2D squadron is equipped with five aircraft, compared with four E-2Cs before the transition.
Muhall said that Northrop Grumman’s St. Augustine,
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Fla., facility has delivered 23 E-2Ds to the Navy and will
deliver another this month. Six were delivered in 2015 and
five are scheduled for delivery in 2016. The Navy has a requirement for 75 E-2Ds, of which 51 are under contract.
The company is building the first E-2D for the Japanese Air
Self Defense Force and expects to build at least four more.
About two years is required to build an E-2D from contract
award to delivery.
The company has built a state-of-the-art training facility
at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., the home of the first E-2D
squadrons.
Northrop Grumman is producing the equivalent of block
software upgrades to the E-2D every 18 to 24 months, similar
in concept to the way the Navy upgrades its submarine mission systems or the way Lockheed Martin refreshes the Aegis
Combat System. Called the Delta System Software Configuration, the second upgrade is now finished with developmental testing and will go through operational test this year.
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Jones Act ‘Force Multiplier’ for Homeland Security
By DAISY R. KHALIFA, Seapower Special Correspondent
Maritime and homeland security experts discussed the
longstanding advantages of the Jones Act in the mission to
protect the nation’s borders during a May 16 roundtable at
the Sea-Air-Space Exposition.
Among the panelists were Paul N. “Chip” Jaenichen,
maritime administrator, U.S. Maritime Administration;
Rear Adm. Mark E. Butt, assistant commandant for capability, U.S. Coast Guard; and J. Ryan Hutton, acting deputy
executive director, Admissibility & Passenger Programs,
Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The Jones Act — also known as the Merchant Marine
Act of 1920 — requires that all cargo shipped between U.S.
domestic ports be carried on vessels that are U.S. built,
owned, crewed and operated. Furthermore, the Jones Act
serves as a cornerstone, through the Maritime Security Program, of the nation’s sealift and surge capability in times of
conflict, providing vessels and crew, as needed, to bolster
military requirements.
“The Maritime Administration’s broader mandate is to
ensure that our nation has the capacity and capability to forward deploy our armed forces and to be able to sustain
them once they arrive in theater,” Jaenichen said. “Not only
is [our mission] about making sure there are enough
mariners to be able to forward deploy our armed forces …
50 percent of our active mariner pool comes from the Jones
Act coastwise trade. When it comes to national security, the
Jones Act is an absolute cornerstone of the U.S. national
strength of homeland security.”
In addition to the nation’s sealift readiness program, the
Jones Act is considered an integral part of the nation’s border protection, Jaenichen said. He said with so much of the
nation’s coastline and inland waterways exposed, it is crucial that the vessels and the crews that travel along and
through them pose no threat. Jones Act crews protect
against that particular vulnerability, he said.
“The Jones Act achieves a number of things,” he said.
“Most obvious, it supports the robust shipbuilding industry
along with the Merchant Marine, which are integral to
being able to make sure that we have active support of
every branch of our armed forces. Without the Jones Act
currently in place, we would also be faced with the impossible prospect of [monitoring vessels] throughout our U.S.
waterways.”
Hutton said CBP’s Office of Field Operations is responsible for “everyone and everything that enters the U.S.”
He said 387 million people came through U.S. points of
entry last year, and explained how the agency uses a “layered approach” in managing potential threats for meeting
the extensive demands faced by CBP staff.
“The Jones Act is a huge part of that,” Hutton said. “If
we allowed foreign-flag vessels, that would be one more
operational level that we would have to address. If you
eliminate the Jones Act, that would be a huge security role
for us operationally. It is important for us and we look at
the Jones Act as a force multiplier.”
Immersive
Training
Spencer Ashford with Marine
Corps Systems Command tests out
the Augmented Immersive Team
Trainer at the Sea‐Air‐Space
Exposition May 16. Augmented Im‐
mersive Team Training, or AITT, is
an augmented reality training
system that integrates with the
U.S. Marine Corps’ ground combat
team training instrumentation sys‐
tem, Instrumented Tactical Engage‐
ment Simulation System to display
virtual indirect fire effects, aircraft,
vehicles and/or role players onto
actual terrain, according to the
Office of Naval Research.
Augmented reality, a technology
that combines virtual information
with a real‐world view, is the en‐
abling capability for AITT.
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Sea‐Air‐Space Exposition attendees gather around a model of an America‐class amphibious assault ship at the Huntington Ingalls Industries booth
on the exposition exhibit floor May 16.
Navy EOD Forces in Demand Around the World
By PETER ATKINSON, Seapower Deputy Editor
While Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians remain dispersed and engaged around the world, their
focus is returning to the maritime environment.
Where the service had been doing “all things EOD” during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as those operations
have wound down, underwater, surface and littoral missions are gaining prominence, Lt. Bryan Bond, Global
Force Management Action Officer with Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC), said during a briefing
at the NECC booth on the Sea-Air-Space exhibit floor.
Bond noted that the “Navy has made major strides in the
underwater environment” as unmanned underwater vehicle
and remotely operated vehicle technologies have continued
to improve and more systems are unveiled.
In the maritime environment, he said, “we’re able to
clear chokepoints so that our ships and Navy forces can get
through these different areas of the world. … We are getting back to the standard Navy EOD environment of countering naval mines.”
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Countering improvised explosive devices, however, remains an integral part of the Navy EOD mission, he said.
“EOD forces are all over the world,” said Bond, who has
spent the past eight years in the EOD field and served tours
in Iraq and Afghanistan. “We strategically emplace our
forces so that we can clear the path for our unconventional
and conventional military forces.”
Demand is such for Navy EOD forces that Bond said not
all requests for their services can be filled — and unless the
current budget climate improves, that is a situation that is
likely to continue.
“EOD is very important, so we’re very busy,” he said.
“We have deployed as many EOD technicians as we can.
Right now, we have approximately 700 personnel deployed
all over the world. We’re supporting all the forces. We support the Army, we support Marines, we support the Air
Force.
“We are also embedded with all the special operations
units, Navy SEALS as well as Army Special Operations.
We’re there to make sure we can clear any explosive hazards so they can go in and do their job safely.”
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Navy’s Great Green Fleet Comes to Sea-Air-Space
By CNIC Public Affairs
Sea-Air-Space 2016 (SAS) attendees approaching the entrance to the Gaylord Convention Center’s main exhibit
space at National Harbor, Md., this year will find a 25-foot
section of hull from an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer standing next to a solar-powered Marine Corps unmanned aerial
system (UAS), and a banner which reads “Power. Presence.” All of these are pieces of an exhibit highlighting the
Department of the Navy’s Great Green Fleet (GGF) — the
year-long showcase of ways the Navy and Marine Corps
are transforming their energy use to be better warfighters.
Military personnel, industry representatives, and other
SAS attendees who visit the GGF display will learn how
the Navy and Marine Corps are deploying next-generation
energy capabilities that boost combat effectiveness, increase operational flexibility, and better protect our Sailors
and Marines. Across the Department of the Navy, activeduty, Reserve and civilian personnel are encouraged to
make energy efficiency the new normal in operations, to
create a more effective fighting force.
In 2009, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced
five goals designed to transform the Navy and Marine
Corps’ energy culture and infrastructure to increase combat
capability and enhance energy security. One of these goals
was to sail the Great Green Fleet by 2016.
In January, Mabus stood on the carrier pier at Naval Air
Station North Island, Calif., and, flanked by the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis and Arleigh Burke-class guidedmissile destroyer USS Stockdale, launched the GGF. The
centerpiece of the GGF — the Stennis Strike Group (JCSSG)
— deployed using energy-efficient technologies and operational procedures, and running its escort ships on an advanced
alternative fuel blend. But the GGF isn’t just the JCSSG. In
fact, the GGF has grown to encompass a service-wide initiative to increase combat capability and flexibility by integrating energy efficiency and alternative energy into operations.
Around the world, platforms, aircraft, amphibious and
expeditionary forces, and shore installations are seeing positive results as they participate in the GGF.
During an Oceania Maritime Security Initiative tasking,
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS William
P. Lawrence reduced its average fuel burn rate by 40 percent from 2015. Weeks later, the JCSSG participated in the
annual Foal Eagle exercise, where expeditionary forces utilized the new NETC2V2 command and control system.
This latest version includes energy-efficient technologies
that, when used in conjunction with new operational procedures, can reduce its energy use by as much as 30 percent.
Aboard the Stennis, emergency lights — known as battle
lanterns — are being converted to more energy efficient Light
Emitting Diodes (LEDs). LEDs are rated for 100,000 hours of
life, drastically reducing the number of replacement bulbs the
ship need carry and the man hours spent on maintenance.
And these are just a few examples of the energy transformation happening in the Navy and Marine Corps.
While some of these innovations may sound minor, the
total impact on operational capabilities is significant. The
Navy and Marine Corps’ mission is to provide the global
presence necessary to ensure stability, deter potential adversaries, and present options in times of crisis. Diversifying
supplies and optimizing energy use helps ensure they have
the energy they need, when and where they need it. And, it
means there can be fewer fuel convoys on the road and less
time ships are tied to oilers, reducing risks to Sailors and
Marines and increasing combat capability.
Saab Gets Positive Feedback on Sea Wasp Testing
By JOHN C. MARCARIO,
Seapower Special Correspondent
The U.S. Navy, along with two other government agencies, has provided “extremely good” early feedback on
Saab’s new remotely operated vehicle, Sea Wasp, according to Burt Johansson, the company’s sales director for underwater systems.
Sea Wasp is designed to locate, identify and neutralize
improvised explosive devices specifically in the confined
areas and challenging environmental conditions of ports
and harbors.
In January, representatives from the U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2, the FBI Counter-IED
Unit and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division’s
Counter-Terrorist Operations Maritime Response Unit met
with a team of Saab employees from the United States,
Sweden and the United Kingdom for four days of Sea
Wasp training in Charleston, S.C. Since then, the agencies
have been testing the system independently of one another.
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During a May 16 brief at the Sea-Air Space Exposition,
Johansson said there has been no set date for prototype
testing to end, but he expects it to be sometime this year.
The agencies have expressed some concerns with the system in terms of handling and dealing with human and machine interface.
Developed over 18 months with the U.S. Underwater
Hazardous Device Team, the Sea Wasp is designed for operation by a two-man team. It is piloted from the surface
using a control console on-board the support vessel, or
from a control vehicle ashore using a power-supplying,
fiber-optic tether.
“There’s always going to be changes, but our experience
in the commercial world comes in handy here,” Johansson
said.
The Navy currently disposes and handles underwater
improvised explosive devices with a team of specialized
swimmers. The Sea Wasp is designed to in essence take the
man out of minefield.
The contract for Sea Wasp was for three prototypes.
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