You Mean, We Don't Do This Now?

Here, in all its glory, is a perfect example of a lot that is wrong. 


It begs a few simple questions:
1. As we bleat about crying poverty, what billets are going away to make these new billets paid for?
2. What tasking being done now will go away so those now tasked to support this from other UIC will be able to give it the attention it needs?
3. More importantly, and asked with a respectful amount of snark .... you mean we aren't doing this right now somewhere in our HUGE bloated staff and war college structure? Really?
 
Is the answer to this requirement just one more layer ... really?  Is that all we've got?

R 240037Z JAN 13
FM CNO WASHINGTON DC
TO NAVADMIN
UNCLAS//N03000//
NAVADMIN 014/13
MSGID/GENADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/DNS/JAN//
SUBJ/ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NAVY WARFARE GROUP//
REF/A/INST/OPNAVNOTE 5430/XXJAN13//
REF/B/DOC/ELLIS GROUP CHARTER/30MAY12//
NARR/REF A IS A CHARTER ESTABLISHING NAVY WARFARE GROUP. REF B IS UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS CHARTER ESTABLISHING
THE ELLIS GROUP.//

RMKS/1. REFERENCE (A) DIRECTS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NAVY WARFARE GROUP (NWG) TO PROVIDE A DEDICATED ORGANIZATION TO SYSTEMATICALLY EVALUATE, DEVELOP, AND IMPLEMENT NEW STRATEGIC CONCEPTS DEEMED USEFUL TO THE SERVICE.

2. NWG MISSION IS TO PRODUCE INNOVATIVE STRATEGIC CONCEPTS THAT SHAPE FUTURE REQUIREMENTS AND INFORM OUR NAVAL STRATEGY AND OPERATIONAL DOCTRINE. SPECIFICALLY NWG WILL:

A. GENERATE, DEVELOP, AND ANALYZE STRATEGIC CONCEPTS AS A COMPONENT OF THE NAVY STRATEGY INNOVATION CYCLE.

B. SERVE AS THE COUNTERPART ORGANIZATION TO THE U.S. MARINE CORPS ELLIS GROUP (REF B) TO INFORM COMBAT DEVELOPMENT TO ENSURE INTEGRATED NAVAL WARFIGHTING CAPABILITIES.

C. GENERATE PURPOSE STATEMENTS AND TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE CONDUCT OF NAVY TITLE 10 WAR GAMES, OVERSEE EXECUTION OF THESE WAR GAMES BY THE NAVAL WAR COLLEGE (NWC) AND EXPLORE THE FEASIBILITY AND IMPLICATIONS OF ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS, PLANS, AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS.

D. SERVE AS THE NAVY LEAD FOR IRREGULAR WARFARE (IW) TO INCORPORATE IW INTO NAVY CAPSTONE DOCUMENTS AND TO INFORM THE PPBE PROCESS.

E. DEVELOP AND COORDINATE NAVY INPUTS TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND REVISION OF JOINT CONCEPTS WITHIN THE FAMILY OF JOINT OPERATIONS CONCEPTS (JOPSC) PUBLICATIONS AND JOINT CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTATION.

3. THE FUTURE CONCEPTS BRANCH HEAD (N515) SERVES AS THE DIRECTOR OF NWG AND REPORTS DIRECTLY TO DIRECTOR N51.

4. THE NWG SERVES AS THE ELLIS GROUP'S POINT OF ENTRY INTO THE OPNAV STAFF.

5. NWG WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH THE NAVY WARFARE DEVELOPMENT COMMAND (NWDC) TO MONITOR OPERATIONAL CONCEPT EFFORTS, COORDINATE WITH THE NWC FOR WARGAMING AND COORDINATE WITH COMBINED FLEET FORCES COMMAND (CFFC) FOR FLEET EXPERIMENTATION.

6. NWG REQUIRES ORGANIZATIONAL AND FLEET TECHNICAL EXPERTISE NOT RESIDENT WITHIN THE GROUP. THEREFORE, NWG IS AUTHORIZED ON A ROTATIONAL BASIS LIAISON OFFICER (LNO) SUPPORT. THE FOLLOWING COMMANDS ARE DIRECTED TO IDENTIFY PRIMARY REPRESENTATIVES AND POINTS OF CONTACT BY 15 FEBRUARY 2013:

A. NAVAL WAR COLLEGE: NAVY PLANNER: WARGAMING SME.

B. NAVY WARFARE DEVELOPMENT COMMAND: CONCEPTS SME.

C. USFF/CPF: N3 OPERATIONAL PLANNER,
N4 LOGISTICS PLANNER,
N5 PLANS AND POLICIES SME,
N7 TRAINING SME,
N9 REQUIREMENTS SME.

D. NECC: N3 OPERATIONAL PLANNER,
N4 EXPEDITIONARY LOGISTICS PLANNER,
N9 EXPEDITIONARY REQUIREMENTS SME.

E. CYBERCOM: INFO DOM/INTEL PLANNER,
INFO DOM/CYBER PLANNER.

F. NAVSPECWCOM: SOF PLANNER.

7. POINTS OF CONTACT ARE CAPT JOSEPH [redacted], NWG (OPNAV N515) AT (571) 256-[redacted]/DSN 260 OR VIA E-MAIL AT JOSEPH.[redacted](AT)NAVY.MIL; AND
CDR BRUCE [redacted], NWG (N515) AT (703) 695-[redacted]/DSN 260 OR VIA E-MAIL BRUCE.[redacted](AT)NAVY.MIL.

8. RELEASED BY VICE ADMIRAL R. W. HUNT, DIRECTOR, NAVY STAFF.//
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