The 21st Century Fighting Navy: Shaping a Way Ahead 2/19/20 The Key Role of Naval Aviation This Special Report focuses on how the US Navy is reshaping its capabilities for the 21st century fight. The 21st Century Fighting Navy: Shaping a Way Ahead The 21st Century Fighting Navy: Shaping a Way Ahead THE KEY ROLE OF NAVAL AVIATION From the Integrated to the Integratable Air Wing: The Transformation of Naval Aviation ................... 4 CMV-22B is on Its Way: Visiting Amarillo .......................................................................................... 10 The Future is Now: The US Navy, the Kill Web and Dealing with Putin’s Challenge ......................... 12 21st Century Anti-Submarine Capability as a Key Element for Shaping Escalation Dominance ........ 13 In the Footsteps of Admiral Nimitz: VADM Miller and His Team Focused on 21st Century “Training” ............................................................................................................................................................ 16 The USMC Shapes a Way Ahead: The Perspective of the Commanding Officer of MAWTS-1 ............ 19 NAWDC and Shaping a 21st Century Combat Force: The Perspective of Admiral “Hyfi” Harris ........ 25 VIsiting the Integrated Training Center at Navy Jax: Shaping the Way Ahead for the New Navy Combat Team Operating P-8s and Triton ........................................................................................... 32 The Transformation of the Maritime Patrol “Aircraft” Enterprise: The Perspective of Rear Admiral Peter Garvin ........................................................................................................................................ 35 The Arrival of Triton in the Pacific: New Manned-Unmanned Teaming Capabilities and Delivering new C2/ISR capabilities ...................................................................................................................... 39 The Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command and Crisis Intervention: Insertion Into the Baghdad Embassy Crisis .................................................................... 41 A Look Back to the Juba Operation ............................................................................................................... 43 Visiting the Warlords: An April 2019 Update from the CO of VMFAT-501 ........................................ 46 The Next Phase of Development for Osprey Nation: From Reach to Working Effectively in an Integrated Distributed Force ................................................................................................................ 49 The 0-5 Military: Reshaping Concepts of Operations for Full Spectrum Crisis Management ............. 52 Shaping a 21st Century Kill Web Approach to ASW: Leveraging the S Cubed Revolution ................. 55 Fighting Hyper Sonic Cruise Missiles at the Speed of Light: The Role of 21st Century Dambusters ... 58 The Surface Fleet, ASW and Defeating Hyper-Sonic Cruise Missiles: The Case of the Zumwalt Class 62 The Impact of a “Ready on Arrival” US Navy on Crisis Management ............................................... 64 Squadron Fighter Pilots: The Unstoppable Force of Innovation for 5th Generation Enabled Concepts of Operations ...................................................................................................................................... 66 The Past as Prologue ..................................................................................................................................... 68 Second Line of Defense Page 1 The 21st Century Fighting Navy: Shaping a Way Ahead Enter Today’s Squadron Pilot ......................................................................................................................... 70 The Squadron Pilots Get Their Hands on the F-35 ......................................................................................... 72 Shaping the Kill Web: The Impact on Designing the USN Fleet ........................................................... 78 Fighting at The Speed of Light: Making it All Work ............................................................................. 79 Fighting at the Speed of Light ........................................................................................................................ 81 The Challenge ................................................................................................................................................ 82 The Big Three ................................................................................................................................................. 83 CLOUD COMPUTING .......................................................................................................................................................... 83 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ................................................................................................................................................... 84 ENCRYPTION ......................................................................................................................................................................... 85 Shaping a Way Ahead ................................................................................................................................... 86 Page 2 The 21st Century Fighting Navy: Shaping a Way Ahead Table of Figures Figure 1 The Decade Ahead for the carrier air wing (Credit: US Navy) .................................................................... 5 Figure 2 How the CMV-22 Will Fit In and Shape the integratable air wing. Credit: Second Line of Defense ... 7 Figure 3 The New Navy Miser Patch .................................................................................................................................. 9 Figure 4 CMV-22b Credit: US NAVY ............................................................................................................................... 11 Figure 5 This is a notional rendering of the 10 and 2 O’Clock challenge. It is credited to Second Line of Defense and not in any way an official rendering by any agency of the US government. It is meant for illustration purposes only. .................................................................................................................................................... 14 Figure 6 Live Virtual Constructive Training ....................................................................................................................... 30 Figure 7 Building out US and allied capabilities for the fourth battle of the atlantic. Credit Graphic: SeconD Line of Defense ...................................................................................................................................................................... 36 Figure 8 A very different kind of c2 is being built for the integrated distributed force. Credit Graphic: SeconD Line of Defense ....................................................................................................................................................... 38 Figure 9 The first two MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft arrived in Guam. Credit Photo: US Navy .................... 39 Figure 10 SP-MAGTF Preapring to deploy to US embassy in iraq. Credit Photo: USMC .................................... 42 Figure 11 Operational reach of sp-MAGtf as of early 2014. Credit graphic: second Line of defense ............ 44 Figure 12 F-35B Flying at Beaufort Air Show, April 2019. Credit. Second Line of Defense ................................ 47 Second Line of Defense Page 3 The 21st Century Fighting Navy: Shaping a Way Ahead FROM THE INTEGRATED TO THE INTEGRATABLE AIR WING: THE TRANSFORMATION OF NAVAL AVIATION By Robbin Laird 2/19/2020 The US Navy over the next decade will reshape its carrier air wing (CVW) with the introduction of a number of new platforms. If one simply lists the initial operating capabilities of each of these new platforms, and looked at their introduction sequentially, the "air wing of the future" would be viewed in additive terms – what has been added and what has been subtracted and the sum of these activities would be the carrier air wing of the future. But such a graphic and such an optic would miss the underlying transformation under way, one which is highly interactive with the USMC and the USAF. A case in point is the coming of the F-35C to the carrier wing. One could discuss the difference between 4th and 5thgeneration aircraft, and the importance of the fifth- generation aircraft, already operating from amphib decks with the USMC, but it is much more than that. Such a focus would be limited to what I have called F-35 1.0, namely, simply bringing the aircraft to the force and sorting through how to support it. But the US Navy is focused directly on F-35 2.0 which is how to leverage the aircraft to transform the combat force into the integrated distributed force. The coming of the F-35 is a trigger point for a significant remake of the CVW. The entire process is rethinking the building, operations, transformation, and interaction of the F-35 (and not just operating from the carrier but working with other F-35s in the joint and allied forces) with the core Naval combat force to be able to generate concentrated combat power at the point of interest needed in a crisis. One clearly needs a different optic or perspective than simply taking an additive approach. The graphic below highlights a way to think about the process