The CNO invites junior officers and enlisted Sailors to apply for the CNO’s Rapid Innovation Cell for 2015. Applications are being accepted until Jan. 31. 

Successful applicants will develop innovative technology or processes as part of the CNO’s Rapid Innovation Cell, or CRIC, established in 2012 to take advantage of opportunities outside the Navy mainstream, empowering innovators with flag leadership advocacy and financial resources to develop prototypes that can be rapidly transitioned to the fleet. 

Volunteers from a cross-section of Navy communities are sought to participate as a collateral duty without a geographic relocation or release from present duty assignment. This is an “additional duty” assignment. 

Successful applicants will join a group of successful current CRIC members. For more information, join the CRIC on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/navyCRIC, or via NMCI at https://www.nwdc.navy.mil/ncfi/CRIC/default.aspx. Application forms: https://www.nwdc.navy.mil/ncfi/cric/lists/application/newform.aspx . 

NWDC POCs are Lt. Jackie Kvinsland (jackie.kvinsland@navy.mil, 757-341-4687) and Cameron Cooper (cameron.cooper@navy.mil, 757-341-4731).

Getting no message is also a message.

“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.”

Donald Robert Perry Marquis

In order to enhance our Navy's ability to develop and implement strategy 
and policy while strengthening the connective tissue between our education 
programs and strategy billet assignments, the CNO has created a Strategic 
Enterprise that will:
--Ensure the focused development of Navy Strategy.
--Align Navy Strategic Documents.
--Establish informed linkages between strategy and our budget.
--Coordinate and synchronize strategic messaging and engagement.
--Create a culture of strategic thinking.
--Develop a cadre of Navy strategists.

You can read the entire NAVADMIN HERE.

And, you must read this USNI article by Commander Michael Junge in the February 2012 issue of PROCEEDINGS - So Much Strategy, So Little Strategic Direction.

Navy Times staff photo by Mike Morones

“However, the Navy always sends officers to school in between shore and sea duty for a refresh.”  I don’t know about you, but I never went to school for a refresh – ever.

You can read the entire article HERE  Some of it makes sense.  I am always puzzled when we have someone in very senior positions articulate what Third Class Petty Officers and junior officers have been saying for years.

VADM Moran is talking about changing things up.  We know we need to change.  We are very resistant to change.  Will we change?  Probably not very much.

“Ummmm … yea. In the end, we’ll wind up with XXXX and Sailors will do the best they can with what their Navy has given them.

We could have done better, but then again – those making the decisions are not the ones who will live or die by them.”

Understanding what strategic decision making is all about could help. Many people think that strategy is about future decisions.  It’s not.  It about the futurity of present decisions.  What decisions could have been made 15 years ago to prevent the Navy from making the difficult decision about C-2 replacement now? This isn’t something that snuck up on us.

VADM Jan E. Tighe will speak for at the Cyber Defence and Network Security 2015 (CDANS) in London on 21 January.  The conference will provide attendees with high level strategic briefings from over 25 senior international military, government, critical national infrastructure and industry cyber experts. Offering unique accounts of national and corporate cyber defence strategies, including the most recent programmes and requirements, as well as insight into the latest technologies and innovations available from industry, CDANS 2015 is an invaluable opportunity to learn, network and engage in discussion on this crucial issue. 

Speaker Information

Vice Admiral Jan TigheCommander, US Fleet Cyber CommandUS Navy

On 11 March 1935, “Communications Security Group”, the predecessor organization to the Naval Security Group Command, was established. 11 March 2015 will be our 80th Anniversary!!

I bet that Rear Admiral Eugene St. Clair Ince, former Commander, Naval Security Group Command is ready for a party.

A couple of NIOC COs and FCC/C10F staffers “in the know” report that VADM J.E. Tighe says that the FCC/C10F Strategic Plan is nearing completion (though a bit behind her desired release of 21 November 2014).  Expectations are that it will be released before the 5th Anniversary of the establishment of FCC/C10F on 29 January 2015.

Previous post about this is HERE with additional details.