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About the Enterprise

About the Office of Warfighting Advantage

Independent Assessment Enterprise Learning Data-Driven Advantage

The Office of Warfighting Advantage supports Navy leadership and the Fleet through independent risk assessment, organizational learning, systemic barrier removal, and integrated data capabilities designed to strengthen readiness and warfighting effectiveness.

Mission

Independent enterprise assessment connecting future force investment decisions with current Fleet performance.

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Warfighting Advantage

Independent Assessment for Better Decisions

The Office of Warfighting Advantage (OWA) delivers independent, enterprise-wide assessments that help senior Navy leadership strengthen warfighting effectiveness, reduce institutional friction, and align resources to the highest-priority operational needs. OWA connects analysis of future force design and investment risk with assessment of current mission execution, enabling leaders to make informed decisions that improve readiness, accountability, and combat effectiveness across the Fleet.

Assess Deliver independent enterprise-wide assessment of risk and mission execution.
Align Connect resources and investment decisions to the Navy's highest-priority operational needs.
Improve Strengthen readiness, accountability, and combat effectiveness across the Fleet.

What is OWA?

The Navy's enterprise assessment and improvement organization.

The Office of Warfighting Advantage is the Navy’s enterprise assessment and improvement organization. OWA provides senior leaders with an integrated view of warfighting risk by examining both the future force and the performance of the force today. Through independent analysis, organizational assessment, and data-driven insight, OWA helps identify systemic barriers, validate priorities, and support corrective action that produces measurable warfighting advantage.

Future Force

POM and Warfighting Analysis

Assesses future capabilities, requirements, force design, and investment risk.

Current Force

Organizational Effectiveness Assessment

Evaluates current mission execution, enterprise performance, and institutional barriers.

Decision Support

Digital Advantage

Develops the data, analytical, and technical foundations needed to deliver timely decision support and an integrated enterprise risk picture.

How OWA Is Organized

Connecting future warfighting analysis, current organizational assessment, and data-enabled decision support.

OWA is structured to connect future warfighting analysis, current organizational assessment, and data-enabled decision support. This design allows the organization to provide senior leaders with a more complete picture of enterprise risk and improvement priorities while supporting continuous learning across the Navy. The structure below is intended to illustrate core functional lines and may evolve as the organization continues to mature.

Enterprise Organization

Office of Warfighting Advantage

Future Risk

POM & Warfighting Analysis

Future capability, force design, requirements, and investment-risk assessment.

Current Risk

Organizational Effectiveness Assessment

Current mission execution, enterprise performance, and institutional barrier assessment.

Enabling Infrastructure

Digital Advantage

Data, analytical, and technical foundations for timely decision support and integrated risk visibility.

Illustrative organizational construct showing OWA’s core mission areas: POM and Warfighting Analysis, Organizational Effectiveness Assessment, and Digital Advantage.

Who We Support & Why We Exist

Connecting enterprise risk, performance, resources, and institutional learning to senior Navy decision-making.

Enterprise Support

Who We Support

OWA supports senior Navy leadership, including decision-makers responsible for strategy, readiness, resourcing, force development, and enterprise performance. OWA also works across the broader Navy assessment ecosystem and in coordination with Fleet, Secretariat, and headquarters stakeholders to ensure that key risks, trends, and improvement priorities are visible and actionable.

Senior Navy Leadership

Decision-makers responsible for strategy, readiness, resourcing, and enterprise performance.

Fleet Stakeholders

Operational organizations responsible for executing, sustaining, and improving mission performance.

Secretariat & Headquarters

Enterprise stakeholders aligning policy, priorities, resources, and institutional outcomes.

Assessment Ecosystem

Partners across the Navy who generate, assess, validate, and act on enterprise risk information.

Purpose

Why We Exist

Modern warfighting demands more than isolated analysis or point-in-time reporting. Leaders need a clear understanding of where risk is building, where performance is falling short, and where investments will generate the greatest operational return. OWA exists to provide that enterprise view.

By combining independent assessment, analytical rigor, and structured follow-through, OWA helps the Navy:
  • 01 Identify risk earlier.
  • 02 Prioritize the issues that matter most.
  • 03 Remove systemic barriers to performance.
  • 04 Improve the alignment between resources and outcomes.
  • 05 Turn institutional learning into sustained warfighting advantage.
Enterprise Outcome Better decisions. Faster correction. Stronger warfighting advantage.
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