Task Leads:
Mike Palko (PEO IWS and NAVSEA 05W Interoperability), Chipp Wilfong (Missile Defense Agency-AEGIS BMD Quality Assurance Program)

Product Area Summary:
Conducts Fleet feedback for various Navy programs, including AEGIS, Carrier and Expeditionary Strike Group (CSG/ESG) Interoperability, and Ballistic Missile Defense.  Survey visits to Strike Group Commanders and Staffs, Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) and Amphibious Squadron (PHIBRON) Commanders and Staffs, AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense (ABMD) Ship Patrollers, Combatant Commanders (COCOMs), Fleet Staffs and the Office of Chief of Naval Operations (CNO/OPNAV) as well as to individual ships, air squadrons, and Marine Corps elements are used to generate issues or topic areas.  These issues or topic areas address corrections, improvements, or new capabilities identified by the Fleet in areas such as training, installation, baseline delivery, logistics support, computer programs, equipment, and operating doctrine and policy. Information from these visits is directly applicable to future baseline engineering efforts and platform certification decisions.

Customers:
PEO IWS 1 (AEGIS Fleet Feedback), NAVSEA 05W/PEO IWS 1 (CSG/ESG Interoperability Fleet Feedback), AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense Program Directorate, Director Navy Missions (PD 452F)

Recent Major Deliverables:
  • AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense Wheelbook Newsletters for communication with Fleet and other Operational and supporting commands involved with Maritime Ballistic Missile Defense.
  • AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense Baseline 3.6 Installations and Training Quality Assurance Reports
  • TD-2 Operational Mission Ballistic Missile Defense Operational Feedback and Lessons Learned
  • Long Range Surveillance and Track Readiness Assessment and Assistance Visit program.
  • Aegis Baseline 7.1 post-deployment Fleet Feedback survey visits to:  USS Pinckney (DDG-91), USS Momsen (DDG-92); USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93), USS James E Williams (DDG-95) and USS Halsey (DDG-97)
  • CV/CVN survey visits to CVN-76 (USS Ronald Reagan), CVN-75 (USS Truman) and CVN-74 (USS John C Stennis)
  • Aegis baseline 6.3 post availability lessons learned survey visit to USS Winston S Churchill (DDG-81)

Keywords:
Fleet Feedback, AEGIS, AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense (ABMD), Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), Quality Assurance Program (QAP), Interoperability, Human Systems Integration (HSI)