• Military Menu                       

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Industry
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• WMD
• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

Sea Warrior to Helm Sailors' Futures

Navy NewsStand

Story Number: NNS041222-02
Release Date: 12/22/2004 9:44:00 AM

By Journalist 1st Class Larry Foos, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -- The Navy announced the human resource management component of the Navy's Sea Power 21 transformational effort, a strategic plan called Sea Warrior, Dec. 18.

The goal of Sea Warrior is to enable the Navy's active, Reserve, civilian and contracted personnel to be better trained, educated and motivated to perform the critical tasks of the 21st century Navy. It is a response to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vernon Clark's call for more efficient use of manpower Navywide and is a significant element of the Navy's Human Capital Strategy.

Clark recently formed Task Force Warrior to implement Sea Warrior. The committee's five strategic initiatives include: the Five Vector Model, coordinated by Naval Education and Training Command; Career Management System, coordinated by Chief of Naval Personnel; Defense Readiness Reporting System (formerly the Mission Performance System), coordinated by Fleet Forces Command; Human Systems Integration, coordinated by Naval Sea Systems Command; and Forcenet/Sea Warrior Integration, coordinated by Network Warfare Command.

Integrating all of these systems into user-friendly Internet technology is a high priority for the leaders of the program.

"A Sailor, [whether] shipboard or ashore, will be able to go online to the career management system, view and compare jobs, make applications for those jobs and see what training may be needed en route to the new duty station," said Task Force Warrior Command Master Chief Ron Downs. "As their Navy career growth is enhanced, so is the effectiveness of fleet response, which in turn maximizes Sea Power 21's capabilities."

Additionally, the program will stress fleet personnel readiness while matching particular skills to Navy employment.

"This will allow a smaller, more complex Navy to meet its objective of identifying and delivering manpower to the right place, at the right time, and at the right value," Downs said. "Sea Warrior will empower Sailors and the Navy workforce to compete for jobs and career opportunities within the Navy. [Sea Warrior] gives Sailors the power of choice and more control of their own career."

Task Force Warrior expects to implement the five initiatives in four phases over an 18-month period, ending in June 2006. The first phase establishes alignment of the Sea Warrior strategy and business processes to be completed by March 2005. The second phase will focus on enlisted Sailor Sea Warrior initiatives for delivery to the fleet, with an expected completion by June 2005. The third and fourth phases involve implementing officer, Sailor and Department of the Navy civilian Sea Warrior initiatives for delivery to the fleet.

These phases will be only the beginning for Sea Warrior.

"It will be spiral developed - continually be built on," Downs said. "This will be new technology we will be able to use to add new features down the road."