Emerging Details of Navy’s Air, Land & Sea Modernization Strategy

How the US Navy Can Fast-Track Building 500 Warships

By Kris Osborn – Warrior Maven

A ship-launched drone sees an enemy submarine surface miles from a Carrier Strike Group, and instantly transmits target and location data to ship-based command and control, giving commanders an immediate strike window through which to launch an aircraft to attack the target or even fire a torpedo or missile from the deck of the ship. 

How can all of these seemingly separate entities, such as a drone, fighter jet and ship-based command and control, coordinate targeting and fire control data fast enough to succeed in destroying the threat? 

This kind of scenario is exactly what the Navy’s current technologically-driven modernization strategy is seeking to enable. The Navy’s modernization strategy is intended to built a multi-domain synergistic connectivity between air, surface, undersea and even land.

In order to accomplish this and put this kind of seamless, cross-force networking, the Navy has embarked upon a comprehensive modernization strategy based upon engineering a common set of technical standards.

Navy’s Modernization Strategy

The Navy wants to architect its entire fleet and suite of emerging technologies and platforms with a common hardware and software configuration to enable sustained modernization and multi-domain networking for decades into the future.