{"id":20554,"date":"2018-05-29T18:38:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T18:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:09:18","slug":"heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how the Navy is developing information warfare \u2018Top Guns\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy recently celebrated the one-year mark of its development center aimed at growing more robust information warfare personnel for 21st century battlefronts.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/show-reporter\/2017\/02\/24\/navy-creates-information-warfighting-development-center\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/636022083753574442-2146094jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Navy creates Information Warfighting Development Center<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">In order to meet evolving threats and challenges, the Navy is standing up a center to train  warfighters. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top Navy officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/intel-geoint\/2018\/01\/24\/navys-top-intel-officer-to-retire\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">have described<\/a> the stand up of the Naval Information Warfighting Development Center, or NIWDC, as one of the most important things the service has done in the past two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many leaders have analogized the NIWDC as a United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program for the information battlespace \u2014 a challenging community where advanced training will produce Top Guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ll be building essentially the same thing in information warfare,\u201d Capt. John Watkins, NIWDC\u2019s commanding officer, told C4ISRNET in a recent interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said he\u2019s prioritized the development of what are called warfare tactics instructors, or WTIs, which will be the subject matter experts relative to their war-fighting areas when inserted back into the fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These WTIs will receive a patch they\u2019ll wear for the rest of their career as they carry that resident expertise to potential command assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThose Top Gun patch wearers are quite often the ones who go on to make CAG, commander of air groups \u2026 they\u2019re the ones that frankly go on and make flag [officer],\u201d Watkins said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to incentivize our WTIs just as robustly &#8230; as the other communities have done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Developing WTIs<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of the day, Watkins said, NIWDC is a training organization that will develop playbooks for the service\u2019s information warfare officers, enlisted and civilians focused primarily at the tactical edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first wave of WTIs will comprise electronic warfare WTIs, intelligence operations WTIs and assured command control WTIs split off into radio frequency and networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watkins noted that there are multiple subsections within each of these categories; however, as far as the outside community is concerned, the fleet will just be getting an \u201cintelligence operator\u201d WTI or an EW WTI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, one civilian going through the intelligence operations course will come out of NIWDC with an emphasis on intelligence support to cyber. Others might have expertise in over-the-horizon targeting, collection management or advanced analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe get these strands down to a niche, but at the end of the day, we\u2019ll call them all intelligence operations WTIs,\u201d Watkins said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Describing the projected pipeline for this young organization, Watkins explained how a newly minted lieutenant commander might go through the training and then go on to serve as the deputy intelligence officer in a carrier strike group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or, cyber WTIs could serve on the staff of a numbered fleet, assisting in delivering cyber effects, Watkins said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given how new the organization is, Watkins said they haven\u2019t had a lot of throughput yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first advanced level information warfare baseline course was executed in February with 20 students, and the hope is by the end of the calendar year there\u2019ll be some level force certified WTIs, Watkins said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are 16 candidates coming in for the second advanced level information warfare baseline course in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Defense Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Releases\/News-Release-View\/Article\/1532876\/flag-officer-assignments\/source\/GovDelivery\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">personnel announcement May 25<\/a> named Capt. Jeffrey Scheidt as the first commander of NIWDC along with his promotion to get his first star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In it\u2019s stand up, NIWDC had not been assigned a flag officer as its commander, though top officials had <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2018\/02\/07\/navy-information-warfare-effort-set-expand-evolve\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">indicated as recently as February<\/a> that would change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy is advancing its development of information warfare personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":58673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":15,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[8,106,29,15,32],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3268],"class_list":["post-20554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c2-comms","category-daily-brief","category-home","category-intel-geoint","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"RFMSBUXUCJDJ5O4WRFOFPDDVGY","arc_canonical_url":"\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Here\u2019s how the Navy is developing information warfare \u2018Top Guns\u2019 - C4ISRNet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Navy is advancing its development of information warfare personnel.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Here\u2019s how the Navy is developing information warfare \u2018Top Guns\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Navy is advancing its development of information warfare personnel.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"C4ISRNet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-05-29T18:38:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T18:09:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Pomerleau\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Pomerleau\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\n\t    \"@context\": \"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\n\t    \"@graph\": [\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"Article\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/#article\",\n\t            \"isPartOf\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"author\": {\n\t                \"name\": \"migration\",\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc76c831bb37a926738c8391fca7a3b1\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"headline\": \"Here\u2019s how the Navy is developing information warfare \u2018Top Guns\u2019\",\n\t            \"datePublished\": \"2018-05-29T18:38:14+00:00\",\n\t            \"dateModified\": \"2026-08-08T18:09:18+00:00\",\n\t            \"mainEntityOfPage\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"wordCount\": 563,\n\t            \"commentCount\": 0,\n\t            \"publisher\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/#organization\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/#primaryimage\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"thumbnailUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/navytomhawk_Resize.jpg.jpg\",\n\t            \"articleSection\": [\n\t                \"C2\\\/Comms\",\n\t                \"Daily Brief\",\n\t                \"Home\",\n\t                \"Intel\\\/GEOINT\",\n\t                \"Newsletters\"\n\t            ],\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t            \"potentialAction\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"CommentAction\",\n\t                    \"name\": \"Comment\",\n\t                    \"target\": [\n\t                        \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/#respond\"\n\t                    ]\n\t                }\n\t            ]\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"WebPage\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/\",\n\t            \"name\": \"Here\u2019s how the Navy is developing information warfare \u2018Top Guns\u2019 - C4ISRNet\",\n\t            \"isPartOf\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/#website\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"primaryImageOfPage\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/#primaryimage\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/#primaryimage\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"thumbnailUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/navytomhawk_Resize.jpg.jpg\",\n\t            \"datePublished\": \"2018-05-29T18:38:14+00:00\",\n\t            \"dateModified\": \"2026-08-08T18:09:18+00:00\",\n\t            \"description\": \"The Navy is advancing its development of information warfare personnel.\",\n\t            \"breadcrumb\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/#breadcrumb\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t            \"potentialAction\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ReadAction\",\n\t                    \"target\": [\n\t                        \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/\"\n\t                    ]\n\t                }\n\t            ]\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"ImageObject\",\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/#primaryimage\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/navytomhawk_Resize.jpg.jpg\",\n\t            \"contentUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/navytomhawk_Resize.jpg.jpg\"\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"BreadcrumbList\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/29\\\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\\\/#breadcrumb\",\n\t            \"itemListElement\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t                    \"position\": 1,\n\t                    \"name\": \"Home\",\n\t                    \"item\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/\",\n\t                    \"ad_zone\": \"home\"\n\t                },\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t                    \"position\": 2,\n\t                    \"name\": \"Intel\\\/GEOINT\",\n\t                    \"item\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/intel-geoint\\\/\",\n\t                    \"ad_zone\": \"intel-geoint\"\n\t                },\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t                    \"position\": 3,\n\t                    \"name\": \"Here\u2019s how the Navy is developing information warfare \u2018Top Guns\u2019\"\n\t                }\n\t            ]\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"WebSite\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/#website\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/\",\n\t            \"name\": \"C4ISRNet\",\n\t            \"description\": \"Media for the Intelligence-Age Military | C4ISRNET\",\n\t            \"publisher\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/#organization\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"potentialAction\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"SearchAction\",\n\t                    \"target\": {\n\t                        \"@type\": \"EntryPoint\",\n\t                        \"urlTemplate\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"\n\t                    },\n\t                    \"query-input\": {\n\t                        \"@type\": \"PropertyValueSpecification\",\n\t                        \"valueRequired\": true,\n\t                        \"valueName\": \"search_term_string\"\n\t                    }\n\t                }\n\t            ],\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\"\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"Organization\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/#organization\",\n\t            \"name\": \"C4ISRNet\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/\",\n\t            \"logo\": {\n\t                \"@type\": \"ImageObject\",\n\t                \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\n\t                \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/c4isrnet-logo-white.png\",\n\t                \"contentUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/c4isrnet-logo-white.png\",\n\t                \"caption\": \"C4ISRNet\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"\n\t            }\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc76c831bb37a926738c8391fca7a3b1\",\n\t            \"name\": \"migration\",\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@type\": \"ImageObject\",\n\t                \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=gcf4cb6ee0ec29e49e7a963234e4340ec\",\n\t                \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\n\t                \"contentUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\n\t                \"caption\": \"migration\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/c4isrnet\\\/author\\\/migration\\\/\"\n\t        }\n\t    ]\n\t}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Here\u2019s how the Navy is developing information warfare \u2018Top Guns\u2019 - C4ISRNet","description":"The Navy is advancing its development of information warfare personnel.","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Here\u2019s how the Navy is developing information warfare \u2018Top Guns\u2019","og_description":"The Navy is advancing its development of information warfare personnel.","og_url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/","og_site_name":"C4ISRNet","article_published_time":"2018-05-29T18:38:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-08-08T18:09:18+00:00","author":"Mark Pomerleau","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Pomerleau","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/"},"author":{"name":"migration","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/#\/schema\/person\/cc76c831bb37a926738c8391fca7a3b1"},"headline":"Here\u2019s how the Navy is developing information warfare \u2018Top Guns\u2019","datePublished":"2018-05-29T18:38:14+00:00","dateModified":"2026-08-08T18:09:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/"},"wordCount":563,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/navytomhawk_Resize.jpg.jpg","articleSection":["C2\/Comms","Daily Brief","Home","Intel\/GEOINT","Newsletters"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/","name":"Here\u2019s how the Navy is developing information warfare \u2018Top Guns\u2019 - C4ISRNet","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/navytomhawk_Resize.jpg.jpg","datePublished":"2018-05-29T18:38:14+00:00","dateModified":"2026-08-08T18:09:18+00:00","description":"The Navy is advancing its development of information warfare personnel.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/navytomhawk_Resize.jpg.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/navytomhawk_Resize.jpg.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/05\/29\/heres-how-the-navy-is-developing-information-warfare-top-guns\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/","ad_zone":"home"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Intel\/GEOINT","item":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/","ad_zone":"intel-geoint"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Here\u2019s how the Navy is developing information warfare \u2018Top Guns\u2019"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/#website","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/","name":"C4ISRNet","description":"Media for the Intelligence-Age Military | C4ISRNET","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/#organization","name":"C4ISRNet","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c4isrnet-logo-white.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c4isrnet-logo-white.png","caption":"C4ISRNet"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/#\/schema\/person\/cc76c831bb37a926738c8391fca7a3b1","name":"migration","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=gcf4cb6ee0ec29e49e7a963234e4340ec","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"migration"},"url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/author\/migration\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"C4ISRNet","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet","push-errors":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/navytomhawk_Resize.jpg.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43644,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20554\/revisions\/43644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20554"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}