Nearly half of the Navy's $2 billion science and technology budget will be spent on discovery and the invention of technologies that may not reach the fleet for another five to 20 years. Leaders are therefore looking at ways to more quickly put emerging technologies in the hands of sailors and Marines.
The funding will focus on nine areas: assured access to maritime battlespace; autonomy and unmanned systems; electromagnetic maneuver warfare; expeditionary and irregular warfare; information dominance — cyber; platform design and survivability; power and energy; power projection and integrated defense; and warfighter performance.
Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, was direct in listing his priorities for the nearly 3,000 in attendance at the Naval Future Force Science and Technology Expo, being held in Washington, D.C., Wednesday and Thursday. The CNO's priorities are:
1. Getting off gun powder. Lasers and railguns will provide an incredibly deep magazine at remarkably low cost, he said.
2. Developing unmanned underwater vehicles with greater propulsion capacity that will help the U.S. maintain underwater dominance and bridge the gap when the sub fleet begins a 10-year dip in mid-2020.
3. Protecting proprietary data. Greenert said this keeps him up at night, as the high-tech innovations of today will be classified top secret tomorrow.
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