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Navy/USMC

Innovation To Help Meet Future Undersea Special Operations Challenges, Officer Says

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, March 11th, 2015

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Innovation To Help Meet Future Undersea Special Operations Challenges, Officer Says

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Navy SEALS are innovative problem solvers because they have to be, and innovation in areas such as unmanned vehicles or data exploitation or human performance is key to enhance future missions, Navy Capt. Travis Schweizer said at a Wednesday forum in Washington.Schweizer, the commodore at Naval Special Warfare Group Three. He is the undersea clandestine operations proponent for both Naval Special Warfare and U.S. Special Operations Command and has set up an innovation cell in his shop, “leveraging what we…

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