NWDC/CRUSER Warfare Innovation Workshop

Abstract

This NWDC/CRUSER sponsored Warfare Innovation Workshop (WIW) is scheduled for 23-26 September 2013 as a Naval Postgraduate School Enrichment Week activity to explore distributing future naval air and surface force capabilities. Background: The first NPS Innovation Seminar supported the CNO sponsored Leveraging the Undersea Environment war game in February 2009. Since that time, warfare innovation workshops have been requested by various sponsors to address self-propelled semi-submersibles, maritime irregular challenges, undersea weapons concepts and unmanned systems concepts generation. Participants in these workshops involved junior officers from NPS and the fleet, early career engineers from Navy laboratories, and CNO Strategic Studies Group (SSG) Director Fellows. Purpose: Within a South China Sea A2AD environment generate concepts of employment for the distributed air wing concept, employing unmanned systems from various launch platforms in independent, and in coordination with traditional CVN/CVW assets. Consider modified LCS designs with greater offensive power to integrate with aviation assets.