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The Department of Defense’s Rapid Reaction Technology Office (RRTO) issued a “Strategic Communication Science and Technology Plan” in 2009 that surveyed the government’s programs in this area and their gaps. To keep abreast of the latest technological developments, this report is being updated for FY 2012.

This study is part of a broader effort to provide analytic support to the Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategy and Policy Division (OPNAV N51) in its development of appropriate ideas for a potential “refreshment” of the basic maritime strategy document A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower (CS 21) signed in October 2007 by the heads of the three maritime services.

The U.S. Navy promulgated over 35 “capstone” strategy, policy, concept and vision documents between 1970 and 2010, to provide direction to the service and explain its value to its civilian political leaders as well as to external audiences. This volume compares and contrasts these documents in a number of dimensions of form and substance.

The U.S. Navy promulgated over 35 “capstone” strategy, policy, concept and vision documents between 1970 and 2010, to provide guidance to the service and explain its value to its civilian political leaders as well as to external audiences. This volume presents graphics that illustrate the context within which these documents were written, over the entire 40-year span, including general global and national political, economic, military, naval, inter-service and academic events and trends, in slide handout format.