U S Navy Program Guide 2017

The U.S. Navy is ready to execute the Nation's tasks at sea, from prompt and sustained combat operations to every-day forward-presence, diplomacy and relief efforts. We operate worldwide, in space, cyberspace, and throughout the maritime domain. The United States is and will remain a maritime nation, and our security and prosperity are inextricably linked to our ability to operate naval forces on, under and above the seas and oceans of the world. To that end, the Navy executes programs that enable our Sailors, Marines, civilians, and forces to meet existing and emerging challenges at sea with confidence. Six priorities guide today's planning, programming, and budgeting decisions: (1) maintain a credible, modern, and survivable sea based strategic deterrent; (2) sustain forward presence, distributed globally in places that matter; (3) develop the capability and capacity to win decisively; (4) focus on critical afloat and ashore readiness to ensure the Navy is adequately funded and ready; (5) enhance the Navy's asymmetric capabilities in the physical domains as well as in cyberspace and the electromagnetic spectrum; and (6) sustain a relevant industrial base, particularly in shipbuilding.

Fully illustrated and updated for 2017, this massive report provides details about hundreds of U.S. Navy systems - patrol craft, carriers, ships, aircraft, nuclear submarines, transports, helicopters, electronic systems, and much more. Every major ongoing project of the Navy is comprehensively described in the 2017 Navy Program Guide. Here are some of the systems covered (space limitations prevent a complete listing): SECTION I: NAVAL AVIATION * AIRCRAFT CARRIERS * CVN 68 Nimitz-Class and CVN 78 Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier Programs * AIRCRAFT * AH-1Z and UH-1Y Helicopter Upgrades * AV-8B Harrier 11+ Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL) Aircraft * C-2A Greyhound Logistics Support Aircraft * C-40A Clipper Navy Unique Fleet Essential Airlift (NUFEA) * C-130T Hercules Intra-Theater Airlift Aircraft * CH-53E Super Stallion Helicopter * CH-53K King Stallion Heavy-Lift Replacement (HLR) Helicopter * CMV-22B Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft * EA-6B Prowler Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) Aircraft * EA-18G Growler Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) Aircraft * F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) * F/A-18A-D Hornet Strike-Fighter Aircraft * F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Strike-Fighter Aircraft * KC-130J Hercules Tactical Tanker and Transport * MH-60R/S Seahawk Multi-mission Combat Helicopter * MH-53E Sea Dragon Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) Helicopter * MQ-25 Carrier Based Aerial Refueling System * MV-22B Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft * P-3C Orion Modification, Improvement, and Sustainment. * P-8A Poseidon Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) * Naval Aviation Training Aircraft * Service Secretary Controlled Aircraft/Executive Airlift (SSCA/EA) * VH-92A Presidential Replacement Helicopter * AVIATION WEAPONS * AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) * AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) * AIM-9X Sidewinder Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (SRAAM) * AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) * Joint Direct-Attack Munition (JDAM, GBU-31/32/38) * Laser JDAM (GBU-54) * Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare Increment 1 (OASuW Inc 1) * Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) * Paveway II Laser-Guided Bomb (LGB) * Dual-Mode LGB (GBU-10/12/16) and Paveway III (GBU-24) LGB * AVIATION SENSORS AND SYSTEMS * Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) Next-Generation Jammer (NGJ) * ALQ-214 Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) * ALR-67(V)3 Advanced Special Receiver (RWR) * APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar System * AAQ-24 Department of the Navy Large Aircraft * Infrared Countermeasures (DoN LAIRCM) System * ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infra-Red (ATFLIR) Sensor * Joint Mission Planning Systems (JMPS) * SECTION 2: SURFACE WARFARE * SURFACE WARSHIPS * CG 47 Ticonderoga-Class Aegis Guided-Missile Cruiser Modernization * DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-Class Aegis Guided-Missile Destroyer * DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-Class Aegis Guided-Missile Destroyer Modernization * DDG 1000 Zumwalt-Class 21st-Century Destroyer Frigate (FF) * Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) * PC 1 Cyclone-Class Patrol Coastal Modernization Program * SURFACE WEAPONS * Mk 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) * Mk 38 Mod 2 Stabilized 25mm Chain Gun * Mk 45 Mod 4 5-Inch/62-Caliber Gun System Upgrade * Mk 46 Mod 2 Gun Weapon System (GWS) * Mk 51 Gun Weapon System (GWS) * Mk 54 Lightweight Torpedo (LWT) * Mk 60 Griffin Missile System (GMS) * RGM/UGM-109E Tomahawk Land-Attack Missile (TLAM) * RIM-7, Mk 57 NATO Seasparrow Surface Missile System (NSSMS) and RIM-162 Evolved Seasparrow Missile (ESSM) * RIM-66C Standard Missile-2 Blocks III/IIIA/IIIB * RIM-116A Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) * SM-6 Standard Missile 6 Extended-Range Active Missile (ERAM) Block I/II * U.S. Coast Guard Navy-Type / Navy-Owned (NTNO) Program * SURFACE SENSORS AND COMBAT SYSTEMS * more

A comprehensive discussion of operational requirements for future naval operations with sufficient detail to enable design and development of technical solutions to achieve the advanced information fusion and command and control concepts described. This book provides a unique focus on advanced approaches to Naval ISR and the critical underlying technologies to enable Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO). Also describing the approach of distributed Naval ops and role of ISR applying advanced technologies and addressing future conflict, new U.S. Naval maritime approaches, distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) and the newest U.S. Navy operational concept. This is a great resource for Naval officers in the ISR, Intelligence, Space, ASW, EW and Surface Warfare, disciplines who seek an in-depth understanding of advanced ISR operations and technologies as well as Navy and industry managers and engineers planning and developing advanced naval systems.

One Nation Under Drones is an interesting and informative review of how robotic and unmanned systems are impacting every aspect of American life, from how we fight our wars; to how we play; to how we grow our food. Edited by Professor John Jackson, who holds the E.A. Sperry Chair of Unmanned and Robotic Systems at the United States Naval War College, this highly readable book features chapters from a dozen experts, researchers, and operators of the sophisticated systems that have become ubiquitous across the nation and around the world. Press reports have focused primarily on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, officially designated as UAVs, but more often referred to as drones. This book takes you behind the scenes and describes how Predators, Reapers, Scan Eagles and dozens of other pilotless aircraft have been used to fight the Global War on Terrorism. Although these systems seemed to emerge fully-developed into the skies above America's distant battlefields following the attacks of 9-11-2001, readers will discover how they actually trace their lineage to the First World War, when the automatic airplane/aerial torpedo, designed and built by the Sperry Gyroscope Company, made its first flight just over a century ago. Unmanned aircraft were used by various combatants in World War II, and took many forms: from converted manned bombers to inter-continental attacks on the American homeland by rice-paper balloons. Technology developed in the latter decades of the 20th century enabled crews stationed thousands of miles away to attack targets on remote battlefields. Such long-range and remote-controlled weapons have been extensively used, but are controversial from both legal and ethical stand-points. Chapters written by international law specialists and drone pilots with advanced education in ethics address these issues from both sides of the argument. The book also details how robotic systems are being used on land, in and below the seas, and in civilian applications such as driverless cars. Three dozen photographs display drones as small as an insect up to those as large as a 737 airliner. One Nation Under Drones covers such a wide array of topics that it will be of interest to everyone from the casual reader seeking to know more about these systems, to national security professionals, both in and out of uniform, who will be making decisions about their procurement and use in decades to come. This work will become the definitive volume on the subject, providing the facts and avoiding the hype about systems that have moved off the pages of science fiction and into the environment all around us.

This book examines US naval strategy and the role of American seapower over three decades, from the late 20th century to the early 21st century. This study uses the concept of seapower as a framework to explain the military and political application of sea power and naval force for the United States of America. It addresses the context in which strategy, and in particular US naval strategy and naval power, evolves and how US naval strategy was developed and framed in the international and national security contexts. It explains what drove and what constrained US naval strategy and examines selected instances where American sea power was directed in support of US defense and security policy ends – and whether that could be tied to what a given strategy proposed. The work utilizes naval capstone documents in the framework of broader maritime conceptual and geopolitical thinking, and discusses whether these documents had lasting influences in the strategic mind-set, the force structure, and other areas of American sea power. Overall, this work provides a deeper understanding of the crafting of US naval strategy since the final decade of the Cold War, its contextual and structural framework setting, and its application. To that end, the work bridges the gap between the thinking of American naval officers and planners on the one hand and academic analyses of Navy strategy on the other hand. It also presents the trends in the use of naval force for foreign policy objectives and into strategy-making in the American policy context. This book will be of much interest to students of naval power, maritime strategy, US national security and international relations in general.