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CNO: Unmanned Ships To Fill ISR Gaps

Wednesday, October 14th, 2020

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CNO: Unmanned Ships To Fill ISR Gaps

Adm. Michael Gilday, Chief of Naval Operations, addresses a question during a Sea Service Chiefs town hall panel discussion at the annual 2020 WEST conference on March 2, 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) this week said the unmanned vessels planned in the Navy’s new future fleet plan will help fill in gaps in intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting (ISR&T) in a larger more distributed fleet. “With a more distributed force, we’re going to potentially come at the adversary across a bunch of different vectors and we’re assuming the adversary is going to continue to grow in numbers. We’re going to need to be able to target that…

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