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CNO Gilday: Navy Must Move Faster on Next Generation Air Dominance Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mallory Shelbourne, USNI, News, October 13, 2020 4:54 PM<\/a><\/p>\n

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An F\/A-18F Super Hornet attached to the Gladiators of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106 launches from the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) during flight operations on March 29, 2020. US Navy Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Navy has to move quicker in its development and fielding of a sixth-generation fighter, the service\u2019s top uniformed officer said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a virtual forum hosted by Defense One, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday emphasized that the service cannot afford to move at the same pace it did when developing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lighting II.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t wait until 2045 or 2050 to field the next manned aircraft, if that\u2019s what we think is required. We also have to come to grips with what is required: what do we think the future\u2019s going to hold if we continue to develop and invest in weapons that are more precise and that have range and that, one would argue, will be doing fewer air-to-air combat type of scenarios?\u201d Gilday said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to want to be able to reach up and touch \u2026 at quite a distance,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo what am I going to get from that investment, from a warfighting perspective, that I can\u2019t get from unmanned? So we have to take a look at that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gilday said that, while the Navy is working \u201chand in glove\u201d with the Air Force on developing a sixth-generation fighter, the effort requires \u201crigorous analysis\u201d and both services are still determining the path forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think both the Navy and the Air Force have a lot more work to do to create a compelling argument that, if we\u2019re going to be making investments in the double-digit billions, that it\u2019s going to be worth it,\u201d Gilday said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s going to be delivered timely, and it\u2019s going to bring the kind of lethality that\u2019s required, because we\u2019re in a day \u2013 I\u2019m being completely honest with the audience here \u2013 we\u2019re obviously in a day and age where we don\u2019t have time to waste and we don\u2019t have money to waste. And so it\u2019s got to count,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

While the Navy in May quietly stood up a program office, known as PMA-230, and tapped a program manager for its Next Generation Air Dominance effort, or NGAD, the service has provided few details on what kind of aircraft it could buy. Navy acquisition chief James Geurts told reporters in August that the service and the Air Force were refining the best way to work together and approach their individual NGAD initiatives.<\/p>\n

USNI News previously reported that the Navy has initiated conversations with industry about NGAD, which would develop the replacement for the F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet and electronic attack EA-18G Growlers in the 2030s.<\/p>\n

The Air Force garnered attention for its own NGAD initiative last month when a service official disclosed that it flew a type of NGAD demonstrator, according to multiple reports. But a recent Congressional Research Service report pointed out a crucial distinction between a \u201cfull-scale flight demonstrator,\u201d which Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper said the service flew, and a \u201cprototype,\u201d which is how initial reports described the platform.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I]t is notable that the aircraft was described as a \u2018full-scale flight demonstrator,\u2019 not a \u2018prototype,\u2019\u201d the report reads. \u201cThe former phrase is used to describe an aircraft that is showing off some form of technology and is different from \u2018prototype,\u2019 which indicates a more production-representative system.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report noted that the Air Force\u2019s NGAD effort seeks to analyze five technologies, but only one technology \u2014 propulsion \u2014 is publicly known.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe announcement came as a surprise to many observers, both as the NGAD program was believed to be an early-phase technology development program unlikely to yield hardware in the near term, and because funding began two years ago, which is unusually fast to design and build a military aircraft,\u201d the report says of the Air Force\u2019s flight demonstrator disclosure. \u201cDOD had mentioned an interest in building a new \u2018X-plane\u2019 prototype as far back as 2014, but it is not clear whether this led to the NGAD demonstrator.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Navy has disclosed few details about its own NGAD effort, Gilday last year indicated the service could shift toward a family of systems approach, which would be similar to how the Air Force is tackling NGAD, and that he anticipates the Navy having a combination of manned and unmanned platforms in the future air wing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s going to be a requirement to continue to deliver a seaborne launched vehicle through the air that\u2019ll deliver an effect downrange,\u201d Gilday said at a conference last December.
\n\u201cI do think that that will likely be a mix of manned and unmanned. The platform which they launch from? I\u2019m not sure what that\u2019s going to look like,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The CRS report about the Air Force\u2019s program says NGAD could feature one aircraft in addition to a combination of systems to supplement the aircraft, or a variety of systems that could include both unmanned and manned platforms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere appears little reason to assume that NGAD is going to yield a plane the size that one person sits in, and that goes out and dogfights kinetically, trying to outturn another plane\u2014or that sensors and weapons have to be on the same aircraft,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n

When asked about a sixth-generation aircraft during Tuesday\u2019s event, Gilday highlighted a need for the Navy to carefully consider how it spends money for new programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re making tough decisions on where the next dollar goes. The Navy gets a $160 billion budget \u2013 that\u2019s a lot of dough, and my job is to maximize naval power with that money,\u201d Gilday said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re making a lot of cuts to put money toward shipbuilding. The secretary of the defense talked about that,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd so as I\u2019m taking a look at modernization programs, they\u2019ve really got to yield lethality for us. I can\u2019t be buying stuff just to buy it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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