There are many examples of the Navy leadership’s slow integration of new technologies. For example, the U.S. Navy was once a world leader in the development and use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s). However, the U.S. has been very slow to integrate new UAV’s. “That the US Navy is the last service to push out the current generation of UAV’s is ironic because it led its peers in early UAV experimentation” (Gasparre, 2009b, p. 1). Another example involves the new Maritime Pre-Positioning Force Squadrons (MPPFS) that were endorsed by President Obama (Gasparre, 2009a). The MPPFS were commercially designed and they are crewed primarily by private civilians rather than naval personnel.
References:
Gasparre, R. (2009a). Taking Control of Naval Pre-Positioning.
Retrieved online http://www.naval- technology.com/features/feature61485/.
Gasparre, R. (2009b). The tortoise in the air. Naval-
technology.com. Retrieved online http://www.naval- technology.com/features/feature62615/.
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