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Parent topics

• Naval warfare [r]: The miltary history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
• U.S. Department of Defense [r]: The military forces of the United States and their supporting civil servants. [e]
• Department of the Navy (United States) [r]: A civilian component of the U.S. Department of Defense, responsible for management of Naval and Marine policy and procurement [e]
• Secretary of the Navy (U.S.) [r]: U.S. civilian official, of Assistant Secretary of Defense rank, who heads the U.S. Department of the Navy and to whom the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps report [e]

Subtopics

Missions

• Amphibious warfare [r]: The set of techniques, equipment, specialized units, and methods of training needed to move troops across water, and deliver them to land, ready for immediate combat. [e]
• Anti-air warfare [r]: In the context of naval warfare, the mission of defending against aircraft and missiles, from platforms under naval command and control, possibly in coordination with other services and possibly defending land as well as sea areas. [e]
• Anti-submarine warfare [r]: (ASW) In the context of naval warfare, the mission of attacking underwater vessels, from platforms under naval command and control. [e]
• Anti-surface warfare [r]: (ASuW) In the context of naval warfare, the mission of attacking surface vessels, from small boats to supertankers and aircraft carriers, from platforms under naval command and control [e]
• Ballistic missile defense [r]: A combination of sensors, command and control systems, and missile/warhead kill mechanisms that protect a region, or, in the case of the U.S., theaters of operations as well as the nation proper. [e]
• Cruise missile defense [r]: A set of techniques for detecting, tracking, and neutralizing cruise missiles and their launching platforms. The techniques involved include sensors, and both kinetic and nonkinetic mechanisms for disrupting the missiles and their launchers. [e]
• Civil Engineering Corps [r]: The U.S. Navy officer track for the Seabees, more formally known as the Naval Construction Force or the Seabees [e]
• Land attack [r]: A range of technologies and techniques used to attack targets on land from the sea; the targets are usually assumed to be well inland, and the weapons to be non-nuclear [e]
• Littoral warfare [r]: Air, sea, subsurface, and land warfare that takes place in waters near a coast, or on coastal land areas. [e]
• Mine warfare [r]: An area of military technology and doctrine, which deals with the development, use of, defense against, and removal of land mines, improvised explosive devices, and sea mines. These devices are characterized by being distributed prior to the presence of an adversary; the mines trigger either by sensing the enemy, or by command from friendly forces. [e]
• Naval aviation [r]: The personnel and equipment of the United States Navy, assigned to prepare for, or conduct, flight in support of naval operations, using carrier-capable and shore-based fixed-wing aircraft as well as helicopters [e]
• Naval gunfire support [r]: naval gun, unguided rocket, and guided missile fire from ships, in direct support of ground forces; does not include close air support even if the aircraft fly from ships [e]
• Naval Special Warfare [r]: [under]sea-air-land special operations organization of the United States Navy, specializing in direct action, special reconnaissance, combat search and rescue and counterterrorism [e]

• United States Marine Corps [r]: A branch of the United States Armed Forces, with primary responsibilities as naval infantry and in amphibious warfare, are organized in Marine Air-Ground Task Forces capable of serving as up to corps headquarters with integrated close air support [e]

Commands

• United States Third Fleet [r]: Currently a naval component of United States Pacific Command, based in San Diego, California; was the Central Pacific combat fleet in the Second World War when under the command of ADM William Halsey [e]
• United States Fifth Fleet [r]: Naval component of United States Central Command; in WWII, the Pacific Fleet when under the command of ADM Raymond Spruance [e]
  • Task Force 151 [r]: A multinational naval task force, centered around a unit from United States Central Command, which is conducting counter-piracy operations in the waters off Somalia [e]
• United States Seventh Fleet [r]: The forward-deployed forces of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps that operate in the western Pacific Ocean; a major operating command under United States Pacific Command [e]
• United States Marine Corps [r]: A branch of the United States Armed Forces, with primary responsibilities as naval infantry and in amphibious warfare, are organized in Marine Air-Ground Task Forces capable of serving as up to corps headquarters with integrated close air support [e]
• Naval Special Warfare Command [r]: Add brief definition or description

Leadership

• Secretary of the Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chief of Naval Operations [r]: The senior officer of the United States Navy, not in the operational chain of command but responsible for preparation and readiness of naval forces [e]

• Gary Roughead [r]: U.S. Chief of Naval Operations since 2007 [e]
• Timothy Keating [r]: Admiral, U.S. Navy, and Commander, United States Pacific Command as of 27 March 2007 [e]

Ships

• Naval vessel designation code [r]: A system of alphabetic type codes for various naval vessels, widely used worldwide but with the specific name of a ship type subject to national usage [e]

See also: U.S. Navy/Catalogs/Ship classes

Aviation

• Naval aviation [r]: The personnel and equipment of the United States Navy, assigned to prepare for, or conduct, flight in support of naval operations, using carrier-capable and shore-based fixed-wing aircraft as well as helicopters [e]

See also: U.S. Navy/Catalogs/Aircraft types

Systems

See also: U.S. Navy/Catalogs/Electronics

See also: U.S. Navy/Catalogs/Weapons

• AEGIS battle management system [r]: An integrated system of computers, radars, and other systems that provides integrated management of a shipboard suite of strategic strike, anti-surface warfare, ballistic missile defense and anti-air warfare principally using missiles in vertical launch systems; it complements other integrated systems for anti-submarine warfare and naval gunfire support [e]
• Global Command and Control System-Maritime [r]: U.S. Navy component of the Global Information Grid [e]
• Global Information Grid [r]: The overall computing and communications architecture and systems interconnecting the U.S. Department of Defense military and civilian organizations, other government agencies, and allied nations; information is at the strategic/theater and operational, not tactical levels [e]
• Cooperative Engagement Capability [r]: A distributed computing and communications system principally aboard U.S. Navy warships, more than the AEGIS battle management system is often called. As opposed to the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System it does not share only the processed data from single sensors on single platforms, but shares a mutually computed model fusing all sensors [e]
• Naval Fire Control System [r]: Also known as the AN/SYQ-27, this is a system for assisting U.S. Navy gunfire support ashore, taking and deconflicting calls for fires, and passing signals to the actual gun system. [e]

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History

For more information, see: History of the United States Navy.

Other related topics

• Admiral [r]: The highest rank in a navy, or the name of the group of "flag officer" grades (e.g., vice admiral) [e]
• Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award [r]: An award to the most battle-ready ship in the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific Fleet, rotated among comparable classes of ship [e]
• Non-commissioned officer [r]: A member of a military organization, responsible either for preparing individuals to carry out tasks and supervising the individuals in performing the task, or an expert in a relevant military skill [e]
• SIGINT in the Second World War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Safety and survivability of naval vessels [r]: Beyond the rules of the Safety of Life at Sea convention, protective measures, for naval vessels, against their own systems as well as enemy fire [e]
• Ship ceremonies [r]: Historical occasions in the life of a ship, usually beginning with keel-laying, and proceeding to launching, and, for naval vessels and vessels in a merchant service, ship commissioning; warships tend to have additional ceremonies such as change of command and decommissioning [e]