If the effort lines up with the how the Navy plots its ship and aviation needs “this is a good idea,” Bryan Clark, a naval analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and former aide to retired former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert, told USNI News on Wednesday…
“Why this is important is even if a particular ship or aircraft won’t show up until 2035, for example, RDA can back up from there and lay out in the plan the technology maturation efforts necessary to get to that platforms in 2035,” Clark said…
“Sometimes those other organizations may be working on S&T projects that could help later with Navy systems, but we may end up duplicating efforts if we don’t take them into account and ensure they are aware of Navy interest and even have Navy financial support,” Clark said. “This kind of plan would help identify where various organizations’ work can come together and identify where RDA may have to send funds to a particular organization or company to keep it going.”…
Clark said the Navy’s challenge was to create product to be useful to the service internally, “rather than just having a communication tool that is informative for the public, but isn’t specific enough to actually help make decisions on where to spend R&D money.”