NWDC Doctrine Department
Mark Werner
Good morning,

   I’m Mark Werner the acting director of doctrine at Navy Warfare Development Command.
Today I’d like to talk about Navy Doctrine today and a vision of where we’d like to take doctrine in the future.
Doctrine today is thought of as a series of books or CDs that you consult when get stuck on some of the finer points of fleet operations or training.
I’d like to see doctrine evolve into a knowledge base that you consult daily as part of the normal course of your day during fleet operations.
To do that, we have to make it more assessable, searchable, and dynamic.
From what we’ve seen of the DARPA mark up language and the semantic web, I think you can help us overcome many of the problems we have had in Navy doctrine.