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Warfighting Advantage

Mission

The Office of Warfighting Advantage supports Naval leadership by improving organizational performance, strengthening problem solving, and enabling continuous learning across the force. OWA sets the conditions for sustainable success by implementing standard processes, integrating innovative solutions, and advancing best practices that increase the Navy’s warfighting advantage.

Improve Strengthen organizational performance.
Enable Support disciplined problem solving.
Advance Drive learning across the force.

Capabilities

Build Expertise

Develop the knowledge and skills of our people.

Drive Performance
Improvement

Use proven methods to solve problems and improve results.

Enable Strategic
Alignment

Connect actions to priorities and mission outcomes.

Advance
Organizational Learning

Capture insights and share learning to strengthen the force.

Support Data-Enabled
Decisions

Leverage data and analytics to inform decisions at speed.

Vision

Future Bearing

Vision

By 2027, the U.S. Navy secures enduring warfighting advantage by fostering a culture of learning and improvement that adapts, corrects, and innovates faster than any adversary.

Insight To Action

What OWA Does

OWA helps the Navy improve performance by connecting insight to action. The office supports learning, problem solving, performance improvement, strategic alignment, and data-enabled decisions so commands can identify risk, close gaps, and improve outcomes at speed.

Strategic Goals

OWA advances warfighting advantage by strengthening how the Navy learns, improves, solves problems, and sustains measurable performance across the force.

01

Cultivate Continuous Learning

Build a culture of accountability, adaptability, and improvement by establishing learning frameworks that help teams assess performance, identify gaps, and correct faster.

Learn. Adapt. Improve.
02

Advance Performance Improvement

Improve operational and administrative performance through standard methods, measurable systems, periodic assessments, and disciplined follow-through on outcomes.

Measure. Align. Execute.
03

Scale Problem Solving

Equip Sailors and civilians with practical education, training, tools, and repeatable problem-solving methods that can be applied at the individual, team, and organizational level.

Build Capability at Scale.

Together, these goals connect insight to action, action to accountability, and accountability to sustained warfighting advantage.

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