"It’s pretty well-known now that our homeland is no longer a sanctuary,” Vice Adm. Daryl Caudle, Submarine Forces Atlantic says. "So we have to be prepared here to conduct high-end combat operations in local waters."
The exercise, taking place this weekend off of the East Coast, will test Pentagon thinking about how to link air and sea assets against 4th and 5th generation threats.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
The Navy is doing something it hasn't done since the 1980s -- test its abilities to win in a contested crossing of the Atlantic.
The 2nd Fleet says it's ready to hunt Russian subs and start pushing into the Arctic. But it can only do that if the Navy can spare the ships.
The 2nd Fleet wants to “decentralize decision making and allow the on-scene commander to take the initiative,” Vice Adm. Andrew Lewis says.
The Navy has created a new fleet, and is sending it straight into the Baltic Sea to test new ways of doing business.
As threats rapidly evolve, digital engineering, manufacturing capacity and robust supply chains are critical to meeting challenges.
“In the ideal world we would want our competitors to respond to our moves instead of us responding to them... We would want to make many of the first moves on our own.”