WASHINGTON – The Navy’s top leader released a detailed plan today that highlights the U.S. Navy’s intended track and investments for the next five fiscal years.
“This navigation plan defines the course and speed we will follow to organize, train and equip our Navy over the next several years,” said Greenert in the document. “Despite likely sequestration in 2016, our priority is to operate forward where it matters, when it matters, and be ready to address a wide range of threats and contingencies.”
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert’s 2015-2019 Navigation Plan defines how the Navy will use its resources to safely and effectively pursue the vision detailed in Sailing Directions.
“Crafting this year's budget included tough choices across a wide range of competing priorities – we focused first on building appropriate capability, then delivering it at a capacity we could afford,” said Greenert.
Each year since Greenert released the Sailing Directions the Navigation Plan has described the annual Navy’s budget submission for the future years. The Navigation Plan has highlighted investments in support of DoD’s guidance and strategic documents as well as this year’s 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review.
In the plan Greenert explains how the Navy will acclimate to budget challenges, increasing operational tempo while balancing current readiness with the need to build a highly capable future fleet. Pursuing the vision set in the Sailing Directions this plan lays out the investments that will allow the Navy to maintain it’s warfighting edge, forward presence and keep Navy members prepared, confident and proficient. This plan highlights how investments will support Navy missions through the lens of the three tenets, Warfighting First, Operate Forward and Be ready.
Greenert emphasizes in the document that everything sailors and civilians do must be grounded in the responsibility of warfighting first. He says the Navy must be able to achieve access in any domain and possess the capability mix of kinetic and non-kinetic weapons to prevail today and be ready to win tomorrow. He provided a list of capabilities that center on this objective and followed with a comparable list of items that support operate forward and be ready.
Additionally, the Navigation Plan summarizes the six programmatic priorities that guided the Navy’s budget planning for the future of the fleet: maintaining sea based strategic deterrent, sustaining a global forward presence, preserve the means for victory against aggressors, focus on readiness afloat and ashore, enhance asymmetric capabilities in physical domains as well as in cyberspace and electromagnetic spectrum and sustain a relevant industrial base.
This navigation plan was released by Greenert to Navy’s senior leaders and distributed on Navy’s social media properties as a priority to be communicated at all levels.
Greenert will release a Position Report later in the year that reviews the Navy’s progress over the last year in pursuing objectives laid out in the Sailing Directions and earlier Navigation Plans, which can be found on his leadership page.
To view the CNO's Navigation Plan, visit http://www.navy.mil/cno/docs/140818_CNO_Navigation_Plan.pdf