The Chief of Naval Personnel (CNP) Vice Adm. Robert Burke spoke with Pensacola-area training staff and students during two all hands calls, June 2.

Covering a variety of topics ranging from how the Navy trains its workforce to upcoming improvements to the detailing process, Burke explained how the roughly 45 initiatives of Sailor 2025 are designed to modernize personnel management and training systems.

At Center for Information Warfare Training and its schoolhouse, Information Warfare Training Command Corry Station, Burke emphasized how Ready, Relevant Learning is an important enabler for Sailor 2025 by delivering the right training at the right time in a Sailor's career.

"Training eventually is going to get moved out to the waterfronts, to the fleet concentration areas," said Burke, describing how mobile laboratories will deliver asynchronous training when a Sailor needs it. This approach will change the current competition for course quotas with most training being accomplished en route to duty assignments.

"Many of the ongoing initiatives for Sailor 2025 are all geared toward fleet readiness," said Burke, stressing that a goal is to provide Sailors with choices while supporting the sea-going deploying service that the Navy must continue to be.

At the second all hands call, Burke addressed more than 1,400 students and staff from Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training, Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Aviation Technical Training Center, and Training Air Wing 6.

Burke also talked about how the Navy is pursuing more improvements to work-life balance issues, including looking further at paternity and adoption leave lengths, expanding child development center hours, and making the Career Intermission Program more widely available to interested Sailors without penalizing their career advancement.

Other initiatives underway include ongoing rating modernization efforts, changes to advancement exams and the evaluation system, and working toward an integrated pay system. Eventually, many personnel actions that are now being realigned under My Navy Portal will all be accomplished on a Sailor's phone.

With more transparency in personnel processes, Sailors will have more visibility, know what's going on and have even more choices and flexibility.

"It's about making the Navy a place that people want to come to, to have a career, and a place that people want to stay for a career," said Burke.

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