Naval Studies Board
The Naval Studies Board (NSB) was established in 1974 at the request of the then-Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) as an entity “to which the U.S. Navy could turn for independent and outside counsel of any area of its responsibilities involving the interplay of science and technical matters with other national issues.”
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At the request of the Chief of Naval Operations, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a classified study that examined U.S. Naval Forces' capabilities to maintain operational effectiveness in the face of an adversary's efforts to deny and degrade mission-critical d...
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