After Action Report

Warfare Innovation Continuum (WIC)This Naval Warfare Studies Institute (NWSI), Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER), and Consortium for Intelligent Systems Education and Research (CISER) sponsored Warfare Innovation Continuum (WIC) workshop was held 21-24 September 2020 on the ‘Virtual Campus’ of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The three-and-a-half-day experience allowed NPS students focused interaction with faculty, staff, fleet officers, and guest engineers from Navy labs, system commands and industry. The September 2020 workshop “Resurrecting War Plan Blue” tasked participants to apply emerging technologies to shape the way we fight in a 2035 global conflict. Concept generation teams were given a design challenge: How might emerging technologies; concepts; joint, combined and coalition forces contribute to enhancing the resiliency of naval forces, logistics, and support facilities in an extended campaign against a peer adversary? How do we best prepare for war in the era of competition and robotics warfare? Following panel discussions and presentations from leading technical experts, the teams and their embedded facilitators had seven hours of scheduled concept generation time to meet that challenge, and presented their best concepts on the final morning of the workshop.Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER)Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER