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Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group XXVI. October 2006. For Official Use Only. 1. SSG History. 1981 - Formed by Admiral Thomas Hayward To develop future naval leaders versed in strategic concepts and their implications for naval warfighting
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Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group XXVI October 2006 For Official Use Only 1
SSG History • 1981 - Formed by Admiral Thomas Hayward • To develop future naval leaders versed in strategic concepts and their implications for naval warfighting • 1995 - Redefined by Admiral Mike Boorda • To develop revolutionary warfighting concepts • Tasked very broadly by the CNO • Tasked to Develop a Road Map • Added “semi-permanent” Systems Analysts, Scientists/Technologists, Science Advisor
SSG Charter • Identify warfare challenges within theme provided by the CNO • Explore innovations in naval warfighting • Generate warfighting concepts • Underpin concepts with technologies and preliminary analyses • Make recommendations to the CNO
SSG XXVI Composition • Direct Report to Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) • Director ADM James Hogg, USN (Ret) • CNO Fellows (9) • Associate Fellows (13) • Systems Analysts (4) • Technologists/Scientists (4) • Science Advisor • Intelligence Officer and Information Officer
Context for Discussion • Eleven years of experimentation • An operational and warfighting concept generation center • A mixture of top quality professionals that have operational experience, scientific and technical expertise, academic credentials, and “that spark”
SSG Environment • Real work is done in Concept Teams (4-7 people) • Remove all possible constraints • Challenge people’s perceptions • Protect the Group from interference • Help discovery of insights for themselves through active participation in the process
SSG XV through SSG XIX • SSG XV through XVII – Warfighting Concepts in Wide Variety of Areas; Foundations for SSG XVIII and Beyond • SSG XVIII – Sea Strike: Attacking Land Targets from the Sea • SSG XIX – Naval Power Forward OPERATING CONCEPTS FOR 30-50 YEARS
SSG XX through SSG XXII • SSG XX – FORCEnet and the 21st Century Warrior • SSG XXI - Accelerating FORCEnet: Winning the Information Age • SSG XXII - Coherent Adaptive Force The WARRIOR and Implementation of FORCEnet
SSG XXIII through SSG XXV • SSG XXIII – Global Maritime Fight 2030 and Beyond • SSG XXIV – Beyond Maritime Supremacy – Balancing Maritime Capabilities for the Age of Unrestricted Warfare • SSG XXV – Free Form Operations – Operational Agility for an Uncertain Future RESET TIME HORIZON TO 2030 AND BEYOND
CNO Tasking to SSG XXVI • Examine “fighting in cyberspace in 2030”. Consider warfare in the Information Age. • Seek an appreciation of the relationships between cyberspace and the traditional maritime domains including warfare and naval competition • Consider scale, tempo and other aspects of change • Examine blurring of strategy, operations and tactics • How must “command, control and collaboration” evolve • Provide a high-level blueprint to transition from today to tomorrow and a roadmap of immediately actionable steps.