From day one of officer school: “The Commander is responsible for all his unit does, or fails to do...” Maybe someone will take this sacking as a wake-up call.
The redundancy built in with the latest electronic gadgets makes this type of accident, twice, unimaginable.
Unless the same gadgets are authorized and able to take aversive action, the decision to do so and carry out the task falls on human hands.
That is the weakest link, in these two cases, and likely for most sea collisions involving super duper USN ships bouncing off Shiite.
The mfwic as otherwise occupied.