'Littoral Ops' concept to be reviewed by Navy leadership in October

The classified concept, "Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment," is nearly complete and will be reviewed by Navy leadership next month.

Gen. Robert Walsh, the Marine Corps deputy commandant for capabilities development and integration, said the concept is 95 percent complete and will go to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller in October to be approved.

The document will help answer "what capabilities do we bring both at-sea and ashore to support operations such as sea control," Walsh said Sept. 27 during the Modern Day Marine expo at Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA.

The sea services agreed to start working on the concept together last December. It seeks to better integrate Navy and Marine Corps forces through new, scalable models of command and control, as previously reported by Inside Defense.