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The Maritime Services, the Allies and Shaping the Kill Web

It is about preparing for the integrated high-end fight and the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development
Center (NAWDC) captures that demand signal.

And with the arrival of software upgradeable aircraft, like Hawkeye and F-35, it will be increasingly
important to put the evolving TTPs or Tactics Techniques and Procedures as part of the software code
rewriting effort as well.

Prior to June 2015, NAWDC was known as Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC) which was the
consolidation of three commands into a single command structure on July 11, 1996. NSAWC was comprised of
the Naval Strike Warfare Center (STRIKE “U”) based at NAS Fallon since 1984, and two schools from NAS
Miramar, the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) and the Carrier Airborne Early Warning Weapons
School (TOPDOME).

NAWDC is the Navy’s center of excellence for air combat training and tactics development. NAWDC trains
naval aviation in advanced Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) across assigned combat mission areas at the
individual, unit, integrated and joint levels, ensuring alignment of the training continuum; to set and enforce
combat proficiency standards; to develop, validate, standardize, publish and revise TTPs.

In addition, NAWDC provides subject matter expertise support to strike group commanders, numbered fleet
commanders, Navy component commanders and combatant commanders; to lead training and warfighting
effectiveness assessments and identify and mitigate gaps across all platforms and staffs for assigned mission
areas as the supported WDC; collaborate with other WDCs to ensure cross-platform integration and alignment.

https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrsw/installations/nas_fallon/about/nawdc.html

The Admiral emphasized the need to resource fully the training cycle by which he meant having the current
operationally ready assets in the hands of the warfighters so that they could from the outset train effectively
for deployment on the carrier.
He highlighted that there were two barriers, impeding the ability to get to an optimum training rhythm.

The first might be called readiness shortfalls.

“The Navy’s tiered readiness system, necessary in the current fiscal environment, has peaks and valleys in the
training cycle.

“So you’ll come out of a maintenance phase and you’ll be at the low end of your training.

“We need to make sure that as soon as you go into the basic phase, you have every aircraft that you are
authorized to have, and every aircraft has every system that it’s authorized.

“We want to be able to start the training right away, so that you can build reps and sets over time, versus the
peak of coming here, getting reps and sets, and then slowing back down again.

“What we’ve found lately is that as squadrons are coming through, they’re about half a step, half a cycle
behind.

“They’re not going into Basic Phase with their full kit.

“Therefore, when they go to their Advanced Readiness Program, they’re still getting up to speed.

“When they come to Fallon they’re still learning some of the things they should have learned in the Advanced
Readiness Phase.
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