CNP highlights Sailor 2025 during Sea-Air-Space

April 5, 2017

The U.S. Navy’s top personnel officer highlighted Sailor 2025 initiatives on Tuesday, March 4th, at the Navy League’s 2017 Sea Air and Space Sea-Air-Space Exposition at National Harbor, Maryland.

Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke moderated a panel entitled “Sailor 2025: Preparing Sailors for Today, Tomorrow and Beyond” and stressed the importance of modernizing the Navy’s personnel system.

“While the Navy is in a good position today with recruiting, retention and manning, it’s important we put in place updated polices that position us to deal with challenges before they arise,” he said. “Sailor 2025 is a roadmap to help us do just that.”

As head of Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education (MPT&E) for the Navy, Burke is responsible for making sure that Sailors are ready for the litany of jobs they will be asked to perform. This includes finding and recruiting talented individuals to serve, executing training pipelines and implementing policies that remove barriers to having a Navy career and a family.

“Built on a framework of three pillars – a modern personnel system, a career learning continuum and career readiness – Sailor 2025 consists of approximately 45 living, breathing initiatives and is the Navy’s program to more effectively recruit, develop, manage, reward and retain the force of tomorrow,” said Burke. “We are focused on empowering Sailors, updating policies, procedures and operating systems, and providing the right training at the right time in the right way to ensure Sailors are ready for the Fleet.”

Burke also discussed a recently-announced effort to transform the MPT&E organization.

“Transforming the way MPT&E operates to streamline and optimize all of our processes will help us improve Fleet readiness, customer service to our Sailors, reduce operating costs and better manage our organizational data and programs,” said Burke. “It will also allow us to effectively recruit, train, and retain the force of tomorrow as well as strengthen the Navy for the future.”