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Mike Gilday has set readiness as his top priority, followed by boosting lethality, and then not increasing the size of the fleet beyond what it can support in manpower, maintenance, munitions and other measures of readiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In line with those priorities, the top four items on the Navy\u2019s fiscal 2024 unfunded priorities list are research and development efforts to boost lethality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sea service wants $45 million to develop the Maritime Targeting Cell-Afloat, which would fuse information from a range of sensors to shore-based and at-sea nodes in communications-denied environments. This project \u201c[d]irectly supports Project Overmatch and Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) by integrating intelligence, sensors, shooters, platforms, and weapons to enhance lethality and survivability,\u201d according to the Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A second research and development effort, for $49 million, would modernize the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft, which serves as the command-and-control \u201cquarterback\u201d in naval aviation operations. This effort to update \u201clegacy cockpit, mission computers, displays, and multiple cyber issues\u201d would allow the aircraft, which operate at sea as part of the carrier air wing, to improve their targeting and enable long-range maritime strike missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Third on the list is $186 million to help bring the Zumwalt-class destroyers \u2014 the first ships that will host the Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missiles \u2014 into the Project Overmatch network. 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