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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

taxi1 said:
I immediately flashed to this lyric…

…’Cause when you don't know where you are going
Any road will take you there

Dawes, borrowed from George Harrison, who borrowed from the Cheshire Cat.
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If only... In the Navy's world, when you don't know where you're going, no road will take you there... unless it's paved with titanium, exactly 1.276 inches thick (+/- 0.000001 inch), costs less than $2 per mile, and has been tested and signed off on by NAVAIR, NAVSEA, and every combatant commander on the planet.
 
ChuckMK23 said:
breakingdefense.com

Navy invites contractors, investors for industry day with new acquisition office - Breaking Defense

Establishing the RCO is one in a series of moves the Navy has made this year, alongside the other services, to overhaul acquisition offices and processes as part of a larger revamp being pushed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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Going to be interesting what problems they get told to tackle. I love the idea of the RCO but how rapid can fit into the world of big traditional programs that make up the bulk of how a Navy operates is always interesting. I definitely wish them the best though.

On a related note, she is a very unconventional choice, but IMO absolutely the best qualified pick to try to fix the mess that has become Navy acquisition.
 
Saw an article that discussed the abysmal pay of shipyard workers. Wonder if the federal government could declare in the interest of national security that these workers and their families are eligible for Tricare, or if the government could add on matching 401k’s, maybe free training programs - something to get more workers?

When China has 200 times our shipbuilding capacity, it is desperate times. And to think we used to have a 6,000 ship Navy.
 
I think whatever they settle in on, we need to do a lot more "rapid prototyping into existence" of capability and let the prototypes compete against each other. Let the dollars and love fall behind the clear winner(s). No long-term awards of any program without hulls on the water.

This means sorting out the DOTMLPF impacts of having lots more different assets in the fleet with much less commonality between them, other than key interfaces.
 
Randy Daytona said:
Saw an article that discussed the abysmal pay of shipyard workers. Wonder if the federal government could declare in the interest of national security that these workers and their families are eligible for Tricare, or if the government could add on matching 401k’s, maybe free training programs - something to get more workers?

When China has 200 times our shipbuilding capacity, it is desperate times. And to think we used to have a 6,000 ship Navy.
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They run ads for the submarine side of the house, there are tons of billobards along 95 as well. Not sure if there is any financela incidntive other than regular salary and such, but it seems as if they are at least trying to get people intrested in pursing that as an option.
 
I think naval ship building in the United States is dead. It will take all our capacity to even build a single CVN at a time. Let our Euro and Pan Asian allies build gas turbine powered ships of the line for us!
 
Lawman said:
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Honestly, one of the reasons it’s been so hard to get too far away from the basic Burke design for almost like 40 years now is that all the big upgrades have pretty much fit within the hull design.

It’s really only recently that new capability has finally started to really stress the current hull out.

Which is what makes our inability to do “new” things terrifying. The Burke design is finally maxed out, and will need a true replacement. If the actual accountable active duty PMs of the next thing (probably going to be part of the whole Golden Fleet thing) can’t crush all the nitpicking bureaucratic motherfuckers that’ll come out to take a run at it, we’ll fail again.
 
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