Navy Revolutionizing Readiness
February 15, 2019
By George I. Seffers
The service plans to digitize readiness.
The U.S. Navy is in the nascent stages of a plan to revolutionize readiness through the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics. It also may include the establishment of two new offices: a chief readiness office and an analytics office.
Adm. Christopher Grady, USN, U.S. Fleet Forces commander, announced the plan at the AFCEA-USNI West 2019 Conference in San Diego. The admiral said that one of his most important “strategic lines of effort†is to revolutionize the approach to readiness. “To win great power competition and to maintain our competitive advantage, particularly given our customary fiscal constraints and restraints, we need to bend the curve on readiness, and we need to proceed with some urgency,†he said. “This is because while we build the Navy the nation needs, we must be able to fight with the Navy the nation has. Remember, 70 percent of the Navy we have today we will fight with in 2030.â€
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