Research for Annotated Briefings

Since May 1994, a research study team at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) has been providing the U.S. Naval Doctrine Command (NDC) with analysis on Multinational Maritime Operations (MMOPS) and Operations Other Than War (OOTW). One of the several MMOPS efforts, conducted from February to June 1995, analytically supported an NDC effort designed to provide documents for eventual release universally to maritime forces of any nation that can be expected to work with the U.S. Navy in the future. This briefing is divided into two sections. The first covers NDC's publication development program. It provides background for the second section on CNA's analytical support.

Desert Storm highlighted the need to improve our capability to transmit large volumes of digital imagery to afloat commanders. Project Challenge Athena I demonstrated the usefulness of commercial wideband satellites for delivering primary imagery products to an afloat unit. Project Challenge Athena II extended the concept to an operational environment. This demonstration used a duplex, high-volume commercial satellite to provide imagery and other services to the GEORGE WASHINGTON Battle Group during its 1994 Mediterranean/Persian Gulf deployment. This annotated briefing presents the results from Challenge Athena II.

N1's Sponsor Program Proposal of 12 April 1994 recommended paying sailors to stay in sea duty beyond five years. In this briefing, we analyze that proposal as well as a modified proposal that we present as an alternative. Our modified proposal offers two fine-tuning changes to what we believe is a good and workable original proposal by N1. We think of these proposal as experiments because until such a program is instituted, we have no estimates of how many sailors would extend their sea duty in exchange for a bonus. Thus, the early stages of any such program would be experimental in nature.

As our nation's military continues to draw down and reshape itself, two important resources can be strategically reinvested to strengthen youth: 1) military personnel either serving or transitioning out, and 2) military facilities. The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) has examined these ideas within its Veterans Transition and Defense Conversion Project. This briefing summarizes Phase II of the project. It builds on Phase I and presents CNA's analysis of the concept 'Strategic Reinvestment to Strengthen Youth.' The goal of the study is to fine strategic opportunities to strengthen youth by selectively reinvesting military resources. CNA was eager to investigate this issue for several reasons. It saw a genuine opportunity to help shape some of the definitions of national security emerging from the ongoing debate on defense policy for the post-Cold War era. This shifting of the discourse to now include domestic aspects of national security coincides with a substantial and long-term military reduction. Therefore, a major policy objective entails tailoring that draw down's social impact to address some of the newly emerging domestic security.