Posted on 06/20/2025 7:19:58 PM PDT by fluorescence
President Donald Trump has tapped Adm. Daryl Caudle to be the next chief of naval operations and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
In February, Trump fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti as CNO and the administration has been looking for a permanent replacement. Adm. James Kilby has been serving as acting CNO since Franchetti was removed.
On June 17, the commander-in-chief submitted Caudle’s nomination for the role to the Senate and it was referred to the Armed Services Committee for consideration, according to a notice posted on Congress.gov.
Caudle is currently serving as commander of Fleet Forces Command, Naval Forces Northern Command and Naval Forces Strategic Command.
The admiral comes from the Navy’s submarine community. He previously served as commander of Submarine Forces, Submarine Force Atlantic, Allied Submarine Command and Submarine Forces, Pacific Fleet. He was also commanding officer of the USS Jefferson City (SSN 759), USS Topeka (SSN 754) and USS Helena (SSN 725), and commanded Submarine Squadron 3, among other assignments.
At the Pentagon, he served on the Joint Staff as vice director for strategy, plans, and policy, J-5, and assistant deputy director for information and cyberspace policy, J-5, according to his Navy bio.
If confirmed as CNO, Caudle would be in a position to shape the fate of high-tech initiatives such as Project 33, which aims to accelerate the fielding of robotic platforms and AI enablers to deter Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific.
“The right way, in my opinion, to think about robotic autonomous systems, uncrewed, unmanned systems, is how we package them to solve our problems and where they are best-suited,” Caudle said in January at the annual Surface Navy Association symposium. “They can be best-suited where the acceptable level of risk of loss of life is too high, the depth of water too shallow,...
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A Masters from Univ of Phoenix, the pseudo-diploma mill? How far we have fallen.
With Franchetti, the Navy has fallen well below standards for head of the Navy. Very sad indeed! Definitely a product of DEI.
He also had a degree in chemical engineering from NC State University and two master’s from Old Dominion University, including one in physics. Sounds very a accomplished
That UOP degree means he was burning midnight oil.
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