Navy Affairs Committee

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Navy Affairs Committee

• NLUS Board of Directors Meeting
• Arlington, Virginia
• June 2009

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Welcome/Agenda

• Sign-in/Introduction of Committee Members
• Introduction of Sea Services Committee Chair
  (General Hailston)
• U.S. Navy Mission/Vision/Core Capabilities/Priorit
  ies
• NLUS Support of these Priorities
• NLUS Maritime Policy process
• Maritime Policy 2009 - 2010
• NLUS Vision/Objectives
• Navy Affairs Committee Mission Statement
• The Navy Today
• What Can You Do?
• Council/Geographic Issues/Recommendations
• Summary of Action Items

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U.S. Navy Mission

• Mission The mission of the Navy is to maintain,
  train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable
  of winning wars, deterring aggression and
  maintaining freedom of the seas.

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U.S. Navy Vision

• Vision
• Remain the preeminent maritime power
• Defend the homeland U.S. vital interests
  internationally
• Prevent war, dominate any threat decisively
  defeat any adversary
• Establish and maintain enduring national
  international naval relationships
• Remain a superbly trained led team, grounded in
  warrior ethos, core values and commitment to
  mission.

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Navys Core CapabilitiesCurrent execution in
OEF/OIF/Globally

• Forward Presence
• Deterrence
• Sea Control
• Power Projection
• Maritime Security
• Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Response

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Navys Strategic PriorityExecute the Maritime
Strategy

• Build the Future Force (to execute the Maritime
  Strategy)
• 313 Ships/3,700 Aircraft by 2020
• -Level load procurement (objective)
• -Capability consistent with Combatant Commander
  demands (BMD, Irregular Warfare, ASW)
• -55 LCS
• -Truncate the DDG 1000 at 3 and restart DDG 51
• Carrier force of 11 thru 2040
• Stabilize the shipbuilding industry
• Procure E/A-18, F/A-18, P-8A MMA, BAMS

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Navys Strategic PriorityExecute the Maritime
Strategy

• Build the Future Force (contd)
• 2010 Budget Funds 8 Ships
• 1 Virginia Class SSN
• 3 LCS
• 2 T-AKE
• 2 JHSV
• Plus
• Balance of LPD 26 DDG 1002 SCN
• 3rd Year Funding for CVN 78
• Advance funding to restart DDG 51 Class Build
• Grow the Navys Acquisition Work Force

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Naval Aviation Update
F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet EA 18 G Growler P-8
Poseidon BAMS F-35 B/C Lightning II NUCAS VH -71
Presidential Helo V 22 Osprey CH 53K HLR
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Navys Strategic PriorityExecute the Maritime
Strategy

• Maintain Warfighting Readiness
• Sustain Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)
  Transition Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
• Integrate warfighting with the USMC
• Continue maritime dominance
• Persistent sea power to address regional crises
  globally, deterring, dissuading or defeating the
  adversary

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Navys Strategic PriorityExecute the Maritime
Strategy

• Maintain Warfighting Readiness
• Lead contribute to joint warfighting planning
  execution
• Partner with USCG for maritime domain awareness
  and security
• Establish/Sustain international relationships
  pursuant to maritime domain awareness and
  security (Key to 1000 ship navy goal)
• Embark NGOs (med/dental) for Humanitarian
  Missions
• Enhanced Good Will Threat Reduction
• 320,000 (to date) patients treated by medical
  teams embarked in Navy Hospital Ships Large
  Amphibious

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Navys Strategic PriorityExecute the Maritime
Strategy

• Develop Support our Sailors Navy Civilians
• Instill a focus on mission and individual
  readiness underpinned by a warrior ethos
• Attract, recruit retain a diverse,
  high-performing, mission-based force
• Ensure the welfare of our sailors and their
  families with particular focus on health care
• Improved quality of care to traumatic brain
  injury victims and amputeesassociated with IED
  wounds
• Improved redeployment programs for IA returnees,
  both duty assignment and health monitoring

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Navys Strategic PriorityExecute the Maritime
Strategy

• Develop Support our Sailors Navy Civilians
• Total Force Recruiting goals met/exceeded and met
  or exceeded enlisted retention goals across all
  zones in FY08
• Expanded Returning Warrior Workshops, providing
  post-mobilization reintegration opportunities
• Expanded Navy civilian employee participation in
  leadership forums implemented civilian career
  management programs

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NLUS Support of these Priorities

• Drafting, publication and dissemination of the
  NLUS Maritime Policy
• Following briefings by key Sea Services leaders
  (USN/USMC/USCG/MARAD)
• Published to our membership (quick look at high
  points today)
• Circulated on Capitol Hill
• Used as a vehicle for promoting Sea Service
  programs in the legislative process and with the
  general public
• The NLUS Maritime Policy advocates a DoD budget
  of 4 of the GDP to ensure that all of our Armed
  Forces are ready to fight win our nations wars
  as well as deter those who would seek to engage
  us.

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Maritime Policy Process

• Navy League receives briefings from the
• Navy -- Marine Corps
• Coast Guard -- Maritime Administration
• The Chair of the Sea Services for NLUS and each
  of the committee chairs and the Chair of the
  Maritime Policy Resolutions Committee attend
  all of the briefings
• Flag/General officer/SES level by each of the Sea
  Services
• With due respect to the service positions, the
  Maritime Policy Committee members respectively
  draft their sections which is then vetted among
  the entire committee before being presented to
  the NLUS Board of Directors for approval and
  publication
• NLUS permanent staff publishes and uses the
  Maritime Policy to lobby the Hill and educate
  NLUS members

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Maritime Policy2009 - 2010

• National Security/Maritime Superiority/Global
  Presence
• Prevail in the war on terrorism
• Take care of our Sailors, Marines and their
  Families and particularly our wounded
• Prepare for future challenges across the full
  spectrum of operations
• The NLUS Maritime Policy Supports the CNOs
  Strategic Priorities which are
• Build tomorrows Navy
• Remain ready to fight today
• Develop and support our Sailors, Marines and Navy
  Civilians

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Maritime Policy2009 - 2010

• The NLUS Maritime Policy
• Supports CNOs 30-year shipbuilding plan which
  provides for achieving a ship count of not less
  than
• 313 ships, including 48 submarines and 34
  amphibious ships, thus providing stability
  predictability for our industrial base and
  meeting the needs of the Combatant Commanders
• Requires a build rate of 10-11 ships per year
• Includes CVN-78/LCS/DDG-1000/CG(X)/DDG-51/LHA-R/LP
  D-17/LHD/SSN/T-AKE

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Maritime Policy2009 - 2010

• Advocates increasing SCN (Ship Construction,
  Navy) funding
• 27B per year to include both new construction
  and mid-life modernization our current surface
  fleet, including
• DDG-1000 (3) as a technology insertion platform
  (enroute to CG(X))
• LCS, with modular mission payloads, to address
  littoral threats
• The Aegis fleet modernization programs--essential
  to the Navy maintaining technological superiority
  and ship count through the 35 year hull life of
  these ships.

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Maritime Policy2009 - 2010

• Supports sustainment of aircraft
• Procurement of 200 250 aircraft per year over
  the FYDP
• F/A-18E/F E-2C/D multi-year procurement
• Full Scale development of the Joint Strike
  Fighter
• Modernization of F/A-18 C/D
• Development procurement of P-8A MMA (P-3
  Replacement) and the Broad Area Maritime
  Surveillance (BAMS) UAV

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Maritime Policy2009 2010

• Supports
• Sustaining 11 Aircraft Carriers
• Sustaining air wings at minimum of 10 (current)
  as an absolute minimum
• Continued deployment of the Aegis Ballistic
  Missile Defense System, including long range
  search track (LRST) capability
• Increased emphasis on ASW Mine Warfare missions
• Enhanced USN/USCG cooperation for homeland
  defense, national security and counter-drug
  operations

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Maritime Policy2009 - 2010

• Supports
• Expanded mission of the Navy Expeditionary Combat
  Command, including Construction Battalion and
  Riverine Force operations
• Continued investment in basic advanced research
  and development programs to maintain our
  technological edge
• The Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) initiative
  including the integration of service specific
  Global Command Control Systems leading to a
  globally networked Joint Force Maritime Component
  Commanders system

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Maritime Policy2009 - 2010

• Recommends attention to long-term industrial base
  issues and use of advanced acquisition strategies
  and innovative funding, including
• Multi-year, block-buy, advance appropriations,
  and construction of subsidized commercial hulls
  for MSC in U.S. yards
• Recommends consolidation of USN/USMC networks
  into a seamless Next Generation Enterprise
  Network (NGEN)

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Maritime Policy2009 2010

• Advocates personnel policies and resources,
  which
• Achieve reasonable OP/PERS Tempo and achieve
  recruiting and retention goals
• Provide active duty pay raises annually (3)
• Support education, training, health care, child
  care and housing programs which improve the
  quality of life of our active and reserve
  families
• Support return rights for our activated
  reservists when they return to the employers they
  left upon activation
• Support the CNOs objective of developing our
  leaders of the future and achieving diversity
  goals

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Maritime Policy2009 2010

• Advocates personnel policies and resources,
  which
• Promotes adequate affordable housing for
  service members families
• Incentivizes health care and nuclear-trained
  professionals to join/remain in the Navy
• Full use of programs to motivate Americas
  youthSea Cadet/NROTC/Junior NROTC
• Allows for continued medical care for wounded
  warriors

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Maritime Policy2009 - 2010

• Recognizes the U.S. Coast Guard as the Navys key
  partner in achieving Maritime Domain Awareness
  (MDA) in the vicinity of the Homeland
• Endorses their requirement for stabilized funding
  of the Deepwater Program and sustainment of
  legacy cutters to meet their critical tasking.
• Endorses the partnership fostered by the Navy,
  Marine Corps and the Coast Guard in issuing a
  joint Maritime StrategyA Cooperative Strategy
  for 21st Century Seapowerexpanding the core
  capabilities of maritime power

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NLUS Vision/Mission

• Vision The NLUS will be the preferred resource
  for the education of both the U.S. Congress and
  the American Public on our Sea Services
• Mission The Navy League of the United States is
  a non-profit organization dedicated to educating
  our citizens about the importance of sea power to
  U.S. national security and supporting the men and
  women of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard
  and U.S.-flag Merchant Marine and their families.

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NLUS Objectives

• Foster maintain interest in strong maritime
  services as integral parts of a sound national
  defense vital to the freedom of the U.S.
• Educate inform the American people with regard
  to the role of sea power the difficulties in
  maintaining strong defense
• Improve the understanding appreciation of those
  who wear the uniform and to improve their living
  and working conditions

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NLUS Objectives (continued)

• Provide support recognition for the Reserve
  forces in our communities in order that we may
  continue to have a capable responsive Reserve
• Educate train our youth in the customs
  traditions of the sea services through an active
  vigorous Naval Sea Cadet Corps
• USNA Class of 201213 Sea Cadets

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Navy Affairs Mission Statement

• In support of the goals objectives of NLUS
• Lead the drafting of the Navy section of the
  Maritime Policy of the Navy League
• Engender Public Support for Navy Programs as
  described in the Maritime Policy Statement
• Follow the Navys key programs through the
  legislative process, supporting the Navy position
  as appropriate
• Communicate with NLUS/Navy Affairs membership

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Navy Affairs Mission Statement

• Foster increased recognition for the Navy at
  National/Regional/Council/Local level through
• Educating membership/elected representatives
• Support of recognition programs for active
  reserve Navy personnel
• Support of key events (commissioning, ship
  visits, returning deployers, etc.)
• Sponsoring Sea Cadet and NJROTC units and
  recognition
• Providing SEAPOWER Magazine subscriptions to
  schools

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The Navy Today (June 11, 2009)

• 283 Deployable Battle Force Ships
• 127 Ships Underway (45)
• 5 Carriers
• 5 LHA/LHD
• 117 Ships Deployed (41)
• 36 SSNs Underway (66)
• 24 Submarines Deployed (44)
• 3700 Operational Aircraft

Navy-Marine Corps Team Forward deployed and ready

• 331,696 active strength
• 52,324 officers (3,340 Midn)
• 276,032 enlisted
• 62,886 on deployment
• 115,196 ready reserves
• 6,712 reserves mobilized
• 13,000 in Central Command (OIF/OEF)
• 188,491 DON Civilian Employees

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The NLUS Maritime PolicyClosing Statement

• The Navy League is committed to persuading,
  through education, the senior leadership in the
  executive and legislative branches of the U.S.
  government, as well as the media and the American
  people, of the continuing need for U.S. sea
  power, both naval and commercial, to protect U.S.
  interests throughout the world and ensure the
  nations economic well-being. The most important
  reform that can be made in the field of
  national defense is to provide adequate funding
  for Americas sea services, which are today the
  greatest force for peace in the world.

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What Can You Do?

• Stay informed
• Read SEAPOWER
• Visit Navy and NLUS websites http//www.navyleague
  .org
• Share your concerns with your elected Congressman
  or Senator
• Share your views/Navy policy/NLUS talking points
  with your community and civic organizations
• Support the NJROTC program in your region
• Stay abreast of NLUS activities in your region

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Wrap-Up

• Council/Geographic Issues/ Recommendations
• Major events in next year in your region
• Open Mike/Action Items

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BACK-UP
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Fleet Size -- 283

• Aircraft Carriers
• Ballistic Missile Submarines
• Guided Missile Submarines
• Surface Combatants
• Nuclear Attack Submarines
• Amphibious Warfare Ships
• Combat Logistics Ships
• Support/Mine Warfare Ships
• Active Reserves
• Strategic Sealift

• 11
• 14
• 4
• 99
• 53
• 33
• 31
• 29
• 9
• 0