{"id":1626740,"date":"2022-08-30T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T13:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626740"},"modified":"2022-08-30T09:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T13:50:24","slug":"chief-of-naval-operations-gilday-industrial-capacity-largest-barrier-to-growing-the-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chief-of-naval-operations-gilday-industrial-capacity-largest-barrier-to-growing-the-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief of Naval Operations Gilday: Industrial Capacity Largest Barrier to Growing the Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchief-of-naval-operations-gilday-industrial-capacity-largest-barrier-to-growing-the-fleet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626740&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_96880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/7193085-scaled.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96880\" data-attachment-id=\"96880\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/08\/25\/cno-gilday-industrial-capacity-largest-barrier-to-growing-the-fleet\/cno-gilday-delivers-testimony-at-a-senate-armed-services-committee-hearing\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/7193085-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3397,2104\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{\" aperture \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-96880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Gilday delivers testimony at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2023 defense budget request on May 12, 2022. US Navy Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The biggest barrier to adding more ships to the Navy is industrial base capacity, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said Thursday.<span id=\"more-96877\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The service\u2019s top officer said shipbuilders need indicators from the service before they\u2019re able to make the investments required to build, for example, three destroyers per year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an industrial capacity that\u2019s limited. In other words, we can only get so many ships off the production line a year. My goal would be to optimize those production lines for destroyers, for frigates, for amphibious ships, for the light amphibious ships, for supply ships,\u201d Gilday said at a Heritage Foundation event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to give a signal to industry that we need to get to three destroyers a year, instead of 1.5, that we need to maintain two submarines a year. And so part of this is on us to give them a clear set of \u2013 a clear aim point so they can plan a work force and infrastructure that\u2019s going to be able to meet the demand. But again, no industry is going to make those kinds of investments unless we give them a higher degree of confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked by USNI News after the event if the reason the Navy isn\u2019t ready to send that signal to industry is because of funding, Gilday said, \u201cit depends on the class of ships. Sometimes it\u2019s affordability. Sometimes it\u2019s industrial capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Navy in its Fiscal Year 2023 budget submission <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/04\/25\/navy-puts-forth-9-ship-multi-year-deal-for-arleigh-burke-destroyers\">projected buying<\/a> two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers per year between FY 2023 and FY 2027. But Congress is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/05\/12\/congress-wants-potential-15-hull-5-year-destroyer-deal-at-3-ships-a-year\">pushing<\/a> for a 10-ship buy across that same time period with options for five more destroyers, amounting to three destroyers per year.<\/p>\n<p>While Gilday has pointed to capacity as a hurdle to growing the fleet, two U.S. shipyards have already made significant infrastructure investments that could set them up to build more ships. Austal USA recently built a new steel line and is interested in the second line for the Constellation-class frigate. HII\u2019s Ingalls Shipbuilding, which builds some of the destroyers, has spent nearly $1 billion over the last five years to modernize its Pascagoula, Miss., yard, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/08\/17\/gulf-coast-shipyards-growing-capacity-while-navy-shipbuilding-plans-remain-unsettled?\">USNI News recently reported<\/a>. Bath Iron Works, the other yard that builds the destroyers, is still facing a backlog of work that was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Gilday\u2019s 2022 Navigation Plan, released last month, calls for 373 manned ships and about 150 unmanned surface and underwater vehicles by 2045.<\/p>\n<p>As for unmanned, Gilday said that when he assumed top job, he viewed the Navy\u2019s pursuit of those platforms the same way he viewed traditional acquisition programs, which typically span years and take significant research and development. The service\u2019s unmanned efforts have to move faster, he argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve changed the construct. We\u2019ve changed the framework in terms of our development of unmanned capabilities,\u201d Gilday said.<\/p>\n<p>The CNO pointed to the Task Force 59 effort operating in the Middle East that has tested numerous contractor-owned vessels and unmanned air assets with allies and partners.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_91275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91275\" data-attachment-id=\"91275\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/01\/14\/u-s-5th-fleet-set-to-expand-unmanned-ship-operations-in-middle-east\/navcent-launches-saildrone-in-gulf-of-aqaba-for-exercise-digital-horizon\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"5947,3965\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{\" aperture \/>A Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel (USV) sails in the Gulf of Aqaba off of Jordan\u2019s coast, Dec. 12, during exercise Digital Horizon. US Army Photo<br \/>\n&#8221; data-medium-file=&#8221;https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450-320&#215;213.jpeg&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450-660&#215;440.jpeg&#8221; class=&#8221;size-full wp-image-91275&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450.jpeg&#8221; alt width=&#8221;5947&#8243; height=&#8221;3965&#8243; srcset=&#8221;https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450.jpeg 5947w, https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450-320&#215;213.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450-768&#215;512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450-660&#215;440.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450-150&#215;100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450-945&#215;630.jpeg 945w, https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450-200&#215;133.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450-250&#215;167.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/news.usni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/211212-A-AI379-0450-624&#215;416.jpeg 624w&#8221; sizes=&#8221;(max-width: 5947px) 100vw, 5947px&#8221;><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-91275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel (USV) sails in the Gulf of Aqaba off of Jordan\u2019s coast on Dec. 12, 2021. US Navy Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWith unmanned technologies that are out there, we\u2019ve developed a DevOps kind of environment with [an] unmanned task force in the Pentagon that\u2019s closely connected to Task Force 59, which operates out of Bahrain,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that task force is operating with six or seven different countries as a team right now to increase maritime domain awareness using unmanned in the air and on the sea. Our goal is to have 100 networked unmanned platforms operating together, tied together in a mesh network that delivers an understanding of what\u2019s afloat out there \u2013 whether it\u2019s in the Red Sea or the Arabian Gulf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to have those 100 unmanned platforms, most of which Gilday said would belong to allies and partners, by the summer of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we take a look at the Red Sea, the Red Sea\u2019s about the size of the state of California. On any given day, we may have four or five coalition ships that are operating in that water space. Think about five patrol cars trying to secure the state of California,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then think about the power of unmanned and what that capability gives you in terms of sensing and then understanding at the tactical edge, in these operation centers, and our partner nations leveraging AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For unmanned, Gilday emphasized the importance of the artificial intelligence software integration over the physical asset.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if I drew a parallel to Tesla who\u2019s a digital native in the automotive industry, there\u2019s plenty of platforms out there \u2013 Volkswagen, Ford, a number of companies have their platform. The secret sauce is that AI software\u201d piece, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we don\u2019t have to have the same company that develops both of these. It\u2019s a very competitive environment. Small companies are making the magic plugin that we can change out very quickly,\u201d Gilday added. \u201cSo we\u2019re trying to field capabilities, unmanned capabilities, in this Fiscal Year Defense Plan, within three to five years. Actually we\u2019re fielding it now. It\u2019s also informing, this progress is informing some of our bigger programs like large and medium unmanned [surface vehicles] that we would hope to scale later on in this decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the event, Gilday told USNI News that Task Force 59 will continue its unmanned exercises, but said the U.S. is trying to more regularly integrate unmanned platforms into its fleet operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re folding in unmanned to fleet battle problems, we\u2019re doing it with deploying strike groups,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re just trying to make it more something that we\u2019re doing routinely rather than just having a separate exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. 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