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Designing Adaptable Ships: Modularity and Flexibility in Future Ship Designs

Report explores the U.S. Navy's options for adopting modularity and flexibility concepts in ship design to mitigate risks of adapting to uncertain future missions and technologies, as well as potentially reduce modernization and/or initial costs.
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Transforming 'Distributed Lethality' Strategy into Action

Distributed lethality offers a more offensive approach to using naval surface forces as potential adversaries acquire naval capabilities designed to control the sea. Translating the concept into action has implications for Navy operations, logistics, finances, and overall strategy.
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PLA Expeditionary Capabilities and Implications for United States Asia Policy

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Assessment of Surface Ship Maintenance Requirements

This report by the National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) examines the impact of the U.S. government's fiscal challenges on the U.S. Navy's surface ship maintenance and operations requirements.
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Improving Care for Co-Occurring Psychological Health and Substance Use Disorders: An Implementation Evaluation of the Co-Occurring Disorders Clinician Training Program

The report evaluates implementation of a clinician training program to improve care for Navy personnel with co-occurring disorders. Results suggest careful planning for training initiatives could increase implementation of evidence-based practice.
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How Do We Deal with a Flood of Data?

Despite the value of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems, the amount of data they generate has become overwhelming. If the Navy does not change the way it processes information, it will reach an ISR “tipping point”—as soon as 2016.
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Quality Sleep at Sea

The U.S. Navy may be waking up to something sleep experts have known for a long time: that people function best when they follow their natural sleep rhythms.
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'Cloud' System Could Help Navy Analysts Consume Expanding Ocean of Data

The Navy has a growing demand for intelligence to help Navy vessels avoid collisions, pinpoint targets, and perform other vital tasks. But the amount of data it may collect in the future is more than it can process today. Cloud strategies offer promising options.
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Data Flood: Helping the Navy Address the Rising Tide of Sensor Information

The authors explore options for solving the Navy's big data challenge, considering changes across four dimensions: people, tools and technology, data and data architectures, and demand and demand management.
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Authority to Issue Interoperability Policy

Presents an approach to determine what parties have authority to issue interoperability policy, the legal and policy origins and implementation paths of the authority, and the scope of that authority, shown in a roles and responsibilities network.
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Developing Navy Capability to Recover Forces in Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Hazard Environments

Assesses current policies and capabilities pertaining to the recovery and decontamination of ashore forces and identifies policy options the Navy could pursue to better perform this mission.
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Strengthening the Shipbuilding Industry

To prevent atrophy in a fiscally challenged environment, the U.S. Navy and ship manufacturers will need to adopt a set of broad management strategies.

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