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The Chief of Naval Operations
(CNO) Strategic Studies Group (SSG) generates revolutionary
naval warfare concepts. Revolutionary implies that the
concepts would upset the existing order. Therefore, these concepts
are non-consensual. The SSG focuses its efforts on warfighting
concepts that appear to have great potential, but Navy organizations
are currently not pursuing. In conducting this mission,
the SSG is at the leading edge of the Conceptualization Phase
of the Process
for Naval Warfare Innovation.
Revolutionary innovation has been
the key to U.S. naval supremacy. A key to past,
successful innovations was the iteration of thought between
operators, technologists and analysts. The operator brought
"unarticulated requirements" to the table. The technologist
brought emerging and existing technologies. Analysis blended
the two. Only after considerable iteration did new thinking,
combining the unarticulated requirement and technology, result
in what became major naval warfare innovations.
ADM James R. Hogg,
USN (Ret) heads the SSG, which is located onboard
the U.S. Naval War College in Newport,
Rhode Island.
The SSG is tasked only by and
reports directly to the CNO. The CNO personally selects the
Director to lead the SSG organization. He also selects
senior Navy officers and approves assignment of Marine Corps and Coast Guard nominees to serve as
CNO Fellows on the SSG. Many previous
SSG members have gone on to flag rank.
At the completion of each year's efforts, the SSG
produces a written report with at least first order analysis
and recommendations for executable "next steps". The CNO
reviews the SSG's work and approves selected recommendations
for implementation. The establishment of the Navy Warfare Development Command (NWDC) at the U.S.
Naval War College in 1998 represents the further institutionalization
of the Process for Naval Warfare Innovation, particularly in
the Development/Experimentation Phase. The SSG and NWDC
collaborate extensively
in their common Sims Hall location.
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