September 2024 Warfare Innovation Continuum Workshop Final Report: Non-Permissive Global Sea Control
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Authors
Englehorn, Lyla A.
Subjects
sea control
sea denial
hybrid fleet
bimodal fleet
autonomy
maritime domain awareness
information joint function
integration
contested logistics
deterrence
sensing
command and control (C2)
electronic warfare
artificial intelligence (AI)
robotics and autonomous systems (RAS)
human-machine teaming (HMT)
sea denial
hybrid fleet
bimodal fleet
autonomy
maritime domain awareness
information joint function
integration
contested logistics
deterrence
sensing
command and control (C2)
electronic warfare
artificial intelligence (AI)
robotics and autonomous systems (RAS)
human-machine teaming (HMT)
Advisors
Date of Issue
2024-12
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Publisher
Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
This Naval Warfare Studies Institute (NWSI) Warfare Innovation Continuum (WIC) workshop was held 23-26 September 2024 on the campus of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California and allowed NPS students a focused interaction with faculty, staff, fleet officers, and visiting engineers from Navy labs and industry. The September 2024 workshop, Non-Permissive Global Sea Control, tasked participants to consider emerging technologies and how they might shape the way we fight. Within a fictional scenario involving near future global conflict titled Global Great Power Disruption concept generation teams were tasked to address the design challenge: How might emerging technologies, existing capabilities, and new operational force employment create opportunities to enhance the Navy’s ability to deny adversaries, or ensure use of the maritime domain in non-permissive environments? With embedded facilitators, teams had three days to meet that challenge and presented their best concepts on the final morning of the workshop. The full participant roster of 186 individuals included representatives from 63 different organizations. NPS students and faculty drawn from departments and organizations across the NPS campus made up 26% of the total participants. Workshop participants joined us from six of the ten warfare centers, two of the warfighting development centers, two operational commands and a naval leadership organization. Other government organizations and academic partners also participated. Industry organizations both large and small working on projects across a wide gamut of domains sent representatives to support the work, as did the Brazilian Navy. Of the eight teams working through the design challenge, five teams worked the challenge unclassified – one remotely – and three teams worked in classified spaces. Participants were asked to propose both capabilities and concepts of operation (CONOPS) and employment (CONEMP) for notional future systems employment in a plausible real-world scenario with the intent of maximizing future warfighting advantage. From all the concepts generated during the ideation phase, each team selected concepts to present in their final briefs. Common themes across the concepts generated were focus on distributed, resilient systems; emphasis on using emerging technologies creatively; recognition of environmental considerations; importance of international cooperation; need for redundant systems and backup capabilities; balance between innovation and practical implementation; an consideration of human factors and trust in new systems. All concepts generated are described fully in this report.
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Report
Description
Prepared for: The Naval Warfare Studies Institute (NWSI); Mr. Randy Pugh, Director & The Warfare Innovation Continuum (WIC); Mr. Jeff Kline, Director
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NPS Report Number
NPS-NSWI-24-001
Sponsors
Naval Warfare Studies Institute (NWSI) Naval Postgraduate School Monterey CA 93943
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Format
192 p.
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Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.