Complexity - sometimes it really is hard

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”

--Laurence J. Peter

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Outstanding Navy leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their Sailors. When Sailors believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.

Sorry I missed this IMPORTANT event on 15 August aboard USS MISSOURI in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Rear Admiral Andy Singer provides remarks on Captain Hagy's remarkable career as a Cryptologic Technician, Cryptologist and Information Warfare officer.  He was the guest speaker at Captain Jim Hagy's retirement aboard USS MISSOURI on 15 August after 40 years of service to our great Navy.

Jim Hagy in the Kunia Tunnel while CO
of Navy Information Operations Command Hawaii

Captain Jim Hagy was born in Evansville, IN, and raised in rural Virginia. He enlisted in 1974 and attended Cryptologic technician Collection “A” School at Corry Station, Pensacola, FL, graduating in 1975. 

His assignments include duty at Naval Security Group Activities in Japan, Guam, Spain, Illinois and Virginia. He was promoted to Chief Petty Officer in 1986 while deployed aboard USS IOWA (BB 61).

Hagy was commissioned in 1987 and his first assignment was NSGA Galeta Island, Republic of Panama. He was assigned to USS ARTHUR W. RADFORD (DD 968) as Electronic Warfare Officer from 1990 to 1992, and participated in the Personnel Exchange Program with the Royal Australian Navy in New South Wales, Australia, from 1993 to 1995.

Hagy reported to Naval Technical Training Center Pensacola, FL in 1995 and served as Division Officer for the CTR A and C Schools Division until 1998. He was then assigned to Commander, Amphibious Task Force Cryptologic Resource Coordinator until 2000, and assumed duties as Officer-in- Charge U.S. Naval Detachment Combined Support Group Alice Springs, Australia until 2002. Hagy was assigned to the staff of Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command Norfolk, VA, as deputy director for Naval Security Group Atlantic until 2005. His last assignment was Navy Personnel Command as Information Warfare Officer Community Manager, Senior Placement Officer, and Detailer for Navy Information Warfare Officers. He served as Commanding Officer of NIOC Hawaii from July 2008 to July 2010 and followed that with assignments in Hawaii which carried him to his retirement this month.

Fair Winds and Following Seas, Jim.  Mahalo and Aloha !!

Liz Wiseman has done it again

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"In a rapidly changing world, experience can be a curse. Being new, naïve, and even clueless can be an asset. Rookies are unencumbered, with no baggage to weigh them down, no resources to burden them, and no track record to limit their thinking or aspirations. For today’s knowledge workers, constant learning is more valuable than mastery."

Our Shipmate, Captain Sean Heritage, has a vignette in the book.  The Navy is a learning organization.  Being a "perpetual rookie" may be an advantage for you.  You can pre-order the book now on AMAZON.  It ships on 14 October.  What a great Navy Birthday gift !!

Captain Eric Nave - Australia's Captain Joseph Rochefort

Captain Eric Nave, an Australian naval officer, was the first to unravel Japanese telegraphy and to break Imperial Japanese Navy codes.  Yet few have heard of the exploits and achievements of this exceptionally talented man who did so much for the safety and security of our country (Australia).

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A MAN OF INTELLIGENCE

Ian Pfenningwerth

Leadership of men

Captain James Mills - Commanding Officer, Navy Information Operations Command Hawaii

Captain James Mills relieved Captain Justin F. Kershaw as CO, NAVIOCOM Hawaii in a ceremony aboard USS MISSOURI in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 21 August 2014.

As a Surface Warfare Officer and Information Professional Officer, he served in the Pacific and Atlantic Fleets supporting Operation Desert Storm, counter-narcotics operations, Noble Eagle, Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.  He is a recognized expert in Navy command & control, communications, combat systems, Information Warfare and cyber operations, leading establishment of several network-centric capabilities and programs now used in the US Navy. 

He has held key positions in major Fleet and Joint head quarters to include duty on the Navy Staff during 9/11. Additionally, he participated in humanitarian relief operations in the Philippines, following Hurricane Katrina, and the Haiti earthquake.

He is a 1990 graduate of the University of Arizona (computer science and political science), holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School, and other graduate certificates from the Joint Forces Staff College, Naval Postgraduate School, and Naval War College.

For words that matter

It's courteous, classy, caring and civilized to pick up a pen.

Margaret Shepherd
The Art of the Handwritten Note

The Navy pours cold water on the ALS "Ice Bucket" Challenge

An unnamed unofficial source with the Blue Angels commented, 
"We never got the memo."

CNO's new Navigation Plan

The CNO recently published the new navigation plan.  You can read it HERE.

Coming soon !

Establishing a Navy Information Dominance Type Command 

By: Captain Joe Gradisher, OPNAV N2/N6 PAO

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert has directed Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (CUSFFC) to establish an Information Dominance Type Command (TYCOM).

In his March 4, 2014 memorandum to CUSFFC, Greenert wrote, "I approve the establishment of Navy Information Dominance Forces as an echelon III command under your administrative control. As the immediate superior in command, oversee the command's implementation...with an initial operating capability of 1 October 2014."

The TYCOM will report directly to CUSFFC and have supporting relationships with the rest of the Navy, focusing primarily on the Navy's information environment. Commander, Navy Cyber Forces, Rear Adm. Diane Webber will have her command re-designated as Commander, Navy Information Dominance Forces (NAVIDFOR) and will provide the initial infrastructure, resources and assets for the TYCOM.

Webber noted that the new TYCOM's mission will be to "support Combatant Commanders and Navy Commanders ashore and afloat by providing forward deployable, sustainable, combat-ready Information Dominance forces."

Full operational capability for NAVIDFOR is expected by the end of the calendar year. A Navy Type Command or TYCOM, coordinates the Man, Train and Equip (MT&E) functions for specific communities within the Navy. For example, Commander, Naval Air Forces exercises administrative control over aviation forces and Commander, Navy Surface Forces does the same for the surface warfare community.The IDC was formed in 2009 and built on the deep expertise and strengths of the officers/enlisted, active/reserve, and civilian workforce from the oceanography/meteorology, information professional, information warfare, naval intelligence and space cadre.

The IDC is an inter-disciplinary corps that possesses a deep understanding of potential adversaries and the battlespace, is able to accurately identify targets and brings an array of non-kinetic, offensive and defensive capabilities to the fight in the Information Age.

According to Vice Adm. Ted N. "Twig" Branch, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance (N2/N6) and the lead for the Navy's IDC, "The continuing evolution of Information Dominance as a Navy warfighting discipline demands a single, integrated TYCOM to provide relevant and effective capabilities, including a highly trained and motivated workforce. I'm confident the new NAVIDFOR will provide the Fleet and the entire Navy the ID capabilities needed to deter, fight and win within this information domain."

Previously, those MT&E functions for the various communities within the IDC were executed by OPNAV N2/N6, Fleet Cyber Command/Commander Tenth Fleet, Navy Cyber Forces, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and the Navy Meteorology and Oceanography Command.

Commander, Navy Information Dominance Forces will be based in Suffolk, Va.

Bravo Zulu Rear Admiral Steve Parode !!

Vice Admiral Jan E. Tighe, Commander Fleet Cyber Command/TENTH Fleet promotes Captain Steve Parode to Rear Admiral (Lower Half).  BZ Steve! CONGRATULATIONS.

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How I feel

 I feel an immense sense of responsibility. Not just to do well, but to do good.

Stay with the bast*rd til he's on the bottom

From: Entrepreneur Magazine