Education For Seapower

Naval Education Strategy 2023

The following is the Naval Education Strategy 2023 overview released on June 23, 2023.

From the report

The Navy and Marine Corps team must be ready to compete, fight, and win whenever and wherever the Nation requires. The DON’s strategic focus is to increase naval competitive advantage to effectively deter aggression and succeed in long-term competition that challenges our national security, and to ensure that our naval forces succeed across the full spectrum of conflict. We are transforming the...

https://news.usni.org/2023/06/23/naval-education-strategy-2023

Navy ‘Education for Seapower’ Program Under Review by New SECNAV

U.S. Naval War College (NWC) holds a graduation ceremony, March 3, 2020. US Navy Photo

A push to boost education across all ranks the Navy and the Marine Corps is under review by the office of the Secretary of the Navy and could face cuts in the future, USNI News has learned.

The Education for Seapower initiative was a key program crafted by Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer and former Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly to improve learning across the Department of the Navy as a national security...

Naval Community College Has First President

Aviation Structural Mechanic 2nd Class John Goodwin, a Framingham, Massachussets, native, takes notes during the Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) Mass Eddy Current Lab Feb. 7 aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. US Navy Photo

Randi Cosentino, an educator specializing in delivering secondary education to working adults, was named the first president of the newly-formed United States Naval Community College.

Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas...

https://news.usni.org/2020/04/02/naval-community-college-has-first-president

Department of the Navy Unveils Education For Seapower Strategy

U.S. Marines assigned to the Cyber Security Technician course, Marine Corps Communications-Electronics School, work on an assignment at Marine Corps Base Twentynine Palms, Calif., March 15, 2017. US Marine Corps Photo

The Education for Seapower Strategy was released this week and outlines the Department of the Navy’s effort to revitalize the way it educates sailors and Marines.

The strategy is the DoN’s guide to implementing many of the organizational and functional changes proposed in the Navy’s

https://news.usni.org/2020/03/03/department-of-the-navy-unveils-education-for-seapower-strategy

Navy Releases Civilian Manpower Strategy to Attract, Retain Amid ‘War’ for Talent

Able Seaman Genaro Cuico, a Military Sealift Command civilian mariner assigned to the submarine tender USS Emory S. Land (AS-39), prepares to toss a line to the pier as the ship moors at Subic Bay, Philippines on Nov. 18, 2019. US Navy Photo

THE PENTAGON – The Department of the Navy needs to improve how it attracts and keeps its civilian workforce as the Navy and Marine Corps hope to grow and modernize in the coming years.

Understanding that the services not only are bound by cumbersome federal...

https://news.usni.org/2020/01/09/navy-releases-civilian-manpower-strategy-to-attract-retain-amid-war-for-talent

Acting SECNAV Modly Orders $100M Shifted Toward Navy Education Effort

Aviation Structural Mechanic 2nd Class John Goodwin, a Framingham, Massachusetts, native, takes notes during the Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) Mass Eddy Current Lab Feb. 7 aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. US Navy Photo

The acting secretary of the Navy ordered a 22-percent increase in spending on education within the Navy, calling for more than $100 million to be shifted around this year and for $350 million to be added in the out-years...

https://news.usni.org/2019/12/09/acting-secnav-modly-orders-100m-shifted-toward-navy-education-effort

Navy, Marine Corps Want to Update Services’ Professional Military Education

An actor portraying Rear Adm. Stephen B. Luce, founder and first president of U.S. Naval War College (NWC) addresses students, staff, faculty and guests during a convocation ceremony kicking off the 2017-2018 academic year a the Naval War College. US Navy Photo

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Navy is evaluating ways to improve and update the Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) program that is considered a must for officers to promote to senior ranks.

As the Department of the Navy revamps its...

https://news.usni.org/2019/11/18/navy-marine-corps-want-to-update-services-professional-military-education

Navy Close to Hiring Leaders for New Community College

Utilitiesman 1st Class Joshua Poirier, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 3, and Sailors assigned to Commander, Fleet Activities Okinawa tenant commands, take the Navy-wide chief petty officer advancement exam. US Navy Photo

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Navy is close to establishing what is intended to be an early stop on a continuum of learning, as it nears hiring the leadership of its soon-to-be-formed Naval Community College.

Creating a Naval Community College is part of the...

https://news.usni.org/2019/11/14/navy-close-to-hiring-leaders-for-new-community-college

Navy Quietly Stands Up Warfighting Development Directorate (OPNAV N7)

Vice Adm. Stuart Munsch

Vice Adm. Stuart Munsch was quietly put in charge of the Navy’s newly formed warfighting development directorate late last month, several Navy officials confirmed to USNI News.

The Navy is still working on the specifics of Munsch’s job as the head of the warfighting development directorate, dubbed OPNAV N7. However, Under Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly told reporters earlier this year the N7 was a new three-star admiral position that will be the “sole resource sponsor...

https://news.usni.org/2019/11/12/navy-quietly-stands-up-warfighting-development-directorate-opnav-n7

New Navy Chief Learning Officer Wants to Develop a Thinking Force

Recruits march in formation at Recruit Training Command on Oct. 2, 2019. US Navy Photo

The Department of the Navy’s new chief learning officer sees creating a thinking force, able to quickly apply classroom concepts to live situations, as the new training focus for all sailors and Marines.

A week on the job, the Navy’s new Chief Learning Officer John Kroger is spending much of his time meeting with the Navy’s educational leaders to understand better how the many pieces of the department’s...

https://news.usni.org/2019/10/07/new-navy-chief-learning-officer-wants-to-develop-a-thinking-force

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