Building the Future Fleet

Navy CNO Mike Mullen released his "2006 Guidance for the Navy" yesterday. Here are his top priorities for the future fleet:

• Sustain combat readiness … with the right combat capabilities -- access, speed, agility, adaptability, persistence, awareness and lethality -- for the right cost.
• Build a fleet for the future … balanced, rotational, forward deployed and surge capable of the proper size and mix of capabilities to empower our enduring and emerging partners, deter our adversaries and defeat our enemies.
• Develop 21st Century leaders … through a transformed manpower, personnel, training and education organization that better competes for the talent our country produces and creates the conditions in which the full potential of every man and woman serving our Navy can be achieved.

You can read the whole thing in pdf here.