Rear Adm. Gene Black, USN, the US Navy’s director of surface warfare or N96, discusses the service’s new Integrated Force Structure Assessment that plans to incorporate medium and large displacement unmanned vessels into its future fleet, the requirements for a new large surface combatant, new longer-range weapon for the fleet and better training for sailors with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2020 Surface Navy Association’s national symposium where our coverage was sponsored by GE Marine and Leonardo DRS.
