The mission of the United States Navy

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

 Navy Warfare Development Command (NWDC) is stated thus: "NWDC serves as the Navy’s champion for the rapid generation and development of innovative, game changing solutions in concepts and doctrine to enhance maritime capability at the operational level across the full spectrum and enable seamless integration in the joint and coalition arena." NWDC is currently located at Naval Station Newport

Naval Station Newport

The Naval Station Newport is a United States Navy base located in the towns of Newport and Middletown, Rhode Island. Naval Station Newport is home to the Naval War College and the Naval Justice School...

, RI.

The NWDC team has role in planning the future of the Navy

Navy

A navy is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions...

, not only in the tactical realm, but also at the operational and strategic levels. As the Executive Agent for Navy’s Concept Generation and Concept Development, we are home to innovations launching today’s Navy into the future.

Vision

NWDC is the Navy’s premier expert for the development and integration of capability at the operational level, shaping current and future force employment through five core competencies: innovation in concept generation and development, design and execution of experimentation and exercises, forward leaning modeling and simulation, dynamic lessons learned, and authoritative doctrine. The combination of these competencies is unique to NWDC.

History

The Chief of Naval Operations

Chief of Naval Operations

The Chief of Naval Operations is a statutory office held by a four-star admiral in the United States Navy, and is the most senior uniformed officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Navy. The office is a military adviser and deputy to the Secretary of the Navy...

 established the Navy Warfare Development Command in 1998. NWDC coordinates the development of concepts of operations, doctrine

Doctrine

Doctrine is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system...

, experimentation, and lessons learned in direct support of the Fleet. The command also provides cutting-edge modeling and simulation for training, experimentation, and focused analysis.

Concept Generation and Concept Development (CGCD) Program

CNO initiated the CGCD program to encourage a culture of innovation

Innovation

Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society...

 throughout the Navy and to gather ideas on ways to address current and future warfighting gaps to inform investment

Investment

Investment has different meanings in finance and economics. Finance investment is putting money into something with the expectation of gain, that upon thorough analysis, has a high degree of security for the principal amount, as well as security of return, within an expected period of time...

 decisions and develop full capability across doctrine, organization, training, materiel

Materiel

Materiel is a term used in English to refer to the equipment and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management....

, leadership, education, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF) spectrum.

External links

• Navy Warfare Development Command (NWDC)