Kelley: Navy should focus on achieving 355-ship capability, not count

By Lee Hudson / February 14, 2018 at 9:00 AM
The Navy should shift its focus on ship count to the capability various platforms bring to operators, according to a top unmanned systems official. Frank Kelley, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for unmanned systems, told Inside the Navy last week that capability should be the new currency. "Say you were able to combine effects of an unmanned underwater vehicle to do protection, and an unmanned air vehicle in the future to deliver some sort of fires," he said on...

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