The CNO personally selected Navy Fellows and invited the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and Commandants of the Marine Corps and Coast Guard to nominate officers to serve as Fellows. While the SSG title remained, the Group was more appropriately characterized as an 'Operational Research and Concept Development Center.' In 1995, Admiral Boorda transformed the SSG into a group whose sole mission is the generation of revolutionary naval warfare concepts. The process for this effort includes: exploring innovations in naval warfighting developing warfighting concepts underpinning these concepts with technologies establishing criteria to evaluate these concepts in operational experiments and recommending actions to the CNO. In conducting this mission, the SSG is at the leading edge of the Conceptualization Phase of the Process for Naval Warfare Innovation.' Process Įarly groups contributed broadly to the foundation of maritime strategy, with later groups shifting more broadly to national security and military strategy.

The SSG focuses its efforts on warfighting concepts that appear to have great potential, but Navy organizations are currently not pursuing.

Therefore, these concepts are non-consensual. Revolutionary implies that the concepts would upset the existing order. The mission of the Strategic Studies Group was to 'generate revolutionary naval warfare concepts. The SSG was disestablished in 2016 by the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral John Richardson. The Group was co-located at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and received its direction and made its reports only to the Chief of Naval Operations. The Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group (SSG) was established by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas B.

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