Norfolk, VA. (Nov. 2, 2023) – Navy Warfare Development Center (NWDC) hosted its annual Navy Lessons Learned Workshop. The event is a working-level forum designed to educate participants, identify issues, and develop solutions relevant to the Navy Lessons Learned Program (NLLP). (U.S. Navy photo by Communication Specialist Ian Delossantos)
The new NLLP instruction (OPNAVINST 3500.37) aligns Navy Organizational Learning objectives with the Navy Get Real Get Better (GRGB) effort; expands Navy shore commands participation in the program; focuses on improvement through process of continuous discovery, validation, resolution, evaluation, and dissemination; and, incorporates observations and recommendations from assessments and near miss events into NLLP.
The event included over 100 participants, in-person and remote, with two days of briefings and panel discussion, and one day of hands-on JLLIS training. Common themes were partner interoperability, to include shore commands and entities outside Navy lifelines, improving data analysis, and extant lesson and problem resolution models. This year’s participants and presenters demonstrated a substantial increase in numbers and diversity of commands represented as the Navy’s mutually supporting efforts of Get Real Get Better, Learning to Action, Fleet Improvement and Readiness, and Tiered Learning increase the pace of improvement, as enabled by lessons learned at the operational, tactical, and deck plate level.