The Navy the Nation Needs
(Room S330BCD)
27 Nov 18
2:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Superior technology and innovation in training continues to give the United States Navy an advantage over its potential adversaries. In this special event, Navy Flag Officers will discuss how the U.S. Navy plans to advance the best-prepared fighting force in the world. This year’s I/ITSEC theme, Launching Innovation in Learning: Ready, Set, Disrupt, highlights how the Navy combines the latest learning innovations with sound instructional techniques to transform traditional military training methods into career learning, leading to true proficiency that will further our asymmetrical advantage against potential adversaries.
The United States Navy is a force that is forward, engaged and ready. In the face of any potential opponent, it is the readiness of our personnel – their ability to make sound decisions under pressure – that will provide our greatest warfighting advantage. Because highly-skilled warfighters are able to make superior decisions and perform their missions better, training sits at the very core of naval readiness. Simply put, superior knowledge, skills, and proficiency are among the most effective tools available to guarantee that our Sailors remain America’s greatest asymmetrical advantage. To that end, the Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer called for the Department of the Navy to “become and remain a continual learning organization, because that is how you maintain Warfighting Readiness and excel in the battle.”
Likewise, the United States Maritime Strategy calls for the sea services to “create a true learning competency that unites our acquisition, requirements, and programming efforts to deliver the latest in technology and design, resulting in realistic simulation and live, virtual, and constructive scenarios before our people deploy…” It is understood that high-quality training is an investment in improving the human performance of our warfighters, but in developing training we also have the responsibility to make affordability a priority