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U.S. NAVY REPORT

Navy Competes for Resources at home, against Asymmetric Threats Abroad

Commanders Look Forward to LCS in the Fleet

BY EDWARD LUNDQUIST he U.S. Navy Chief of Naval sea; achieve high velocity learning at ev- ? oor to space, and in the information do- cades. After three surface warriors in

Operations Adm. Jonathan ery level; strengthen our Navy team for main.” the CNO position (Admirals Vern Clark,

Richardson recently released the future’ and expand and strengthen It isn’t an earth-shattering document, Mike Mullen and Gary Roughead), the

This “Design for maintaining our network of partners. and perhaps is most telling for what it Navy is now led by the second consecu- maritime superiority.” Richardson says the Navy must “main- doesn’t say, as opposed to what is says. tive submariner. Both Richardson and

The document presents Richardson’s tain a ? eet that is trained and ready to The document makes a strong case for his predecessor, Adm. Jonathan Green- priorities with four “lines of effort” to operate and ? ght decisively – from the forward presence, which has been the ert, have made the Ohio Replacement strengthen naval power at and from the deep ocean to the littorals, from the sea raison d’etre for the U.S. Navy for de- Program (ORP) their top priority. ORP

An 11 meter rigid hull in? atable boat (RHIB) approaches the open stern doors of the water borne mission zone aboard the USS Fort Worth (LCS 3). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Antonio Turretto Ramos) 24 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • FEBRUARY 2016

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