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RMKS/1. Shipmates, I am proud to announce the release of Navigation Plan
2022.
This document surveys the state of our Navy and provides direction on our
future. Navigation Plan 2022 builds upon the solid foundation set by last
year's NAVPLAN and takes into account three significant developments.
2. First, earlier this year, the Secretary of Defense released the 2022
National Defense Strategy (NDS), which sets out how the Department of Defense
(DoD) will contribute to advancing and safeguarding U.S. national interests.
The NDS is clear about the formidable challenges our adversaries pose to the
international rules-based order, as evidenced by China's and Russia's blatant
attempts to reshape the security environment to their advantage. In response
to these challenges, the NDS introduces "integrated deterrence" as a unifying
principle for the DoD. Additionally, the NDS identifies "campaigning" and
"building enduring advantages" as the additional ways through which we will
achieve our Nation's goals. In support of these ways, the NDS calls for
updated operational concepts, including the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC),
to align capabilities and missions across the Services. Our Navy plays a
unique and critical role in supporting the NDS: a ready, combat-credible,
forward deployed fleet is the most potent, flexible, and versatile instrument
of military power. Nested under the Secretary of the Navy's Strategic
Guidance and the Tri-Service Maritime Strategy, Navigation Plan 2022 outlines
how we will continue adapting to the security environment in order to fulfill
our singular role as part of the Joint Force defending our Nation.
3. Second, Navigation Plan 2022 accounts for the progress we have made and
what we have learned as a result of the NAVPLAN Implementation Framework
(NIF). The NIF has accelerated our progress in 18 separate focus areas, but
we still have much work to do. To continue delivering the outcomes called
for in the NIF, Navigation Plan 2022 identifies a supported commander for
each objective, promoting alignment, accountability, coordination, and
collaboration. We have made significant progress this past year, breaking
through stovepipes and turning priorities into tangible action. However, we
must accelerate key capabilities, such as our ability to shoot, maneuver,
defend, and resupply, while building momentum in additional critical areas,
including: live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) training, the Naval
Operational Architecture, artificial intelligence, and unmanned systems.
4. Third, Navigation Plan 2022 directs necessary course corrections to the
design of our future force. Six overarching Force Design Imperatives--
Distance, Deception, Defense, Distribution, Delivery, and Decision Advantage-
-will guide the development of our naval capabilities and enable us to employ
our warfighting concepts. These imperatives will feed an "engine" of strategy
that will better inform our budget choices-leveraging wargaming, analysis,
research, experimentation, and disruptive technology. The Deputy Chief of
Naval Operations for Warfighting Development (OPNAV N7) will become the
supported commander responsible for developing, maintaining, and refining the
Navy's Force Design vision. A collaborative, continuous, and iterative Force
Design process will energize our modernization efforts and help us maintain
our maritime advantage in this critical decade and beyond.
5. Ultimately, Navigation Plan 2022 reflects the Get Real, Get Better call
to action we are now adopting throughout our Navy. The rapidly increasing
capabilities of our adversaries and their demonstrated intent to threaten
our national interests demand that we focus on continuous improvement.
We must courageously self-assess, deliberately self-correct, and continuously
learn. Navigation Plan 2022 acknowledges identified shortcomings and barriers
to our future progress, while charting the path forward to overcome them.
6. Everything in Navigation Plan 2022 supports our four overarching
priorities:
Readiness, Capabilities, Capacity, and Sailors. We must maintain readiness,
keeping combat-credible forces forward in order to protect the free and open
system underpinning American security and prosperity. We must possess
capabilities to deter war and, if needed, win in conflict. We must build
capacity that will enable us to deliver sea control and project power. And
we must lead, train, and equip our Sailors to out-think and out-fight any
adversary.
7. I expect all Navy leaders to read Navigation Plan 2022, which is
available on the Navy.mil website
(https://www.navy.mil/Leadership/Chief-of-Naval-Operations/).
Each one of us has an important role to play, and our success depends on
executing this Navigation Plan as a team.
8. Released by Admiral Mike Gilday, Chief of Naval Operations.//
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