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2005 Department of the Navy Objectives

The following objectives reflect a joint consensus between the Secretary of 
the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine 
Corps on areas needing emphasis within the Department of the Navy during 
2005.  Published in January, these objectives are closely managed and are 
tracked each month in a consolidated report to the Secretary of the Navy.

Objective 1.  Global War on Terrorism:  Continue to aggressively prosecute 
the global war on terrorism.

	a. Take care of wounded Marines/Sailors and their families.

	b.  Incorporate financial and program processes to rapidly respond to 
operational needs and to provide for reconstitution of OEF/OIF assets.

	c. Shape PR-07 to meet short and long-term GWOT requirements.

	d.  Establish a Naval Innovation Laboratory environment to enable rapid 
acquisition and development processes for evaluating, testing and deploying 
of GWOT solutions.  Countering IEDs, RPGs and mortars is the principal focus 
of this effort in 2005.

	e. Maritime Domain Awareness

Objective 2.  Homeland Security:  Use the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) 
negotiated with the Coast Guard in 2004 as the foundation for broadened 
relationships with international Navies to develop an integrated intelligence 
and Command and Control System to assist in GWOT.

Objective 3.  Safety

a.	Improve all safety results across DoN.

	b.   Improve safety results across DoN to meet Secretary of Defense 
challenge to reduce mishaps by 50% across the two year period, 2004 and 2005.

	c. Initiate prioritized actions of the Navy - Marine Corps Safety Council.

Objective 4.  Human Capital Strategy

	a.  National Security Personnel System (NSPS) -- accomplish all 
orientation, training and other activities to start spiral One.

	b.  Continue to pursue strategies to decrease overall manpower costs 
within DON while improving effectiveness and personnel satisfaction.

	c.  Strategically focus Naval education and training.

		c(1). Formulate vision and goals including lessons learned from GWOT 
like foreign language and cultural skills.

		c(2). Establish an implementing organizational approach integrated 
into career progression and advancement.

Objective 5.  Shipbuilding:  Formulate, articulate and incorporate into PR 07 
a comprehensive shipbuilding program to encompass all aspects of sea basing 
and quick reaction to trouble spots.

	a.  Develop a comprehensive plan to include affordability, industrial 
base, and operational needs, supply chain optimization and mutually 
supportive joint activities.

	b.  Define the requirements for MPF(F) and proceed with ship design 
efforts.

Objective 6.  Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)

	a.  Complete analysis and prepare recommendations for submission to DOD to 
achieve the goals for BRAC.

	b.  Provide data and analytical support to sustain DOD recommendations 
during consolidation by the BRAC Commission, the President and the Congress.

	c.  Organize, prepare, and coordinate BRAC 2005 expeditiously and 
efficiently; and complete implementation of recommendations from past rounds 
of BRAC.

Objective 7.  Quadrennial Defense Review:  Leverage the Quadrennial Defense 
Review (QDR) to effectively influence DOD and DON strategic direction.  
Maximize joint warfighting interoperability while emphasizing unique maritime 
capabilities and DON operational considerations.  Use QDR analyses to better 
understand and reconcile capability-based force posture requirements.  Drive 
the QDR process to facilitate near and long-term force shaping and strategic 
response capability.

Objective 8.  Analytical Tools And Modeling: Develop analytic tools to model 
and determine future warfighting requirements and capabilities to counter 
conventional, asymmetric, catastrophic, etc. risk areas.

Objective 9.  Information Technology (IT):  Transform the enterprise business 
IT functions of the Navy.

	a. Achieve 100% cut over to NMCI.

	b.  Begin to turn off legacy networks and consolidate legacy servers.

	c.  Reduce the number of applications through the Functional Area 
Manager's application rationalization and migration processes.

	d.  Develop methods for enhanced life-cycle management and visibility of 
IT assets to reduce total cost of ownership.

Objective 10.  Alignment:  Align organizations and processes to ensure 
service collaboration on key joint concepts and capabilities.

	a.  Develop Navy architectural plans for kill chains supporting Sea Shield 
and Sea Strike mission capability pillars.

	b.  Develop an Integrated Fire Control (IFC) Air and Missile Defense 
Capability Across Services.

	c.  Ensure Navy Interoperability (FORCEnet) is clearly integrated and 
aligned to Joint Battle Management Command and Control (JBMC2) plans and 
roadmaps.

	d.  Continue transformation of Naval combat and weapon systems through the 
aggressive implementation of open architecture precepts across the enterprise.