Navy Will Lean on Drone Ships, Modularity to Expand Fleet Size
Posted By: Hope Hodge Seck May 17, 2017
The Navy’s top officer said he’s looking for ways to build the service to a strength equivalent to 355 ships by the mid-2020s.
But it’s unlikely that all those ships will be traditionally manned and operated platforms.
In a nine-page document released Wednesday examining the future Navy, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson consolidated the findings of three recent studies examining the target future force. He agreed with the conclusion of all three that the Navy needs “on the order” of 350 ships, up from its current 275, and calls for an “exponential” pace to deliver the growth decades ahead of current projections.
https://www.dodbuzz.com/2017/05/17/navy-will-lean-drone-ships-modularity-expand-fleet-size/
