OVERVIEW
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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Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group |
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Sims Hall |
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686 CUSHING ROAD |
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NEWPORT, RI 02841-1207 |
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