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NavalX is a United States Navy program which serves the Navy and Marine Corps as an innovation and agility cell. The program is staffed by rotating government civilians, Sailors and Marines who are at NavalX for periods of time between 6 and 24 months and whose time with the program is funded by the workers' home commands. The program was stood up in 2019 as Naval Expeditions under then Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition, James "Hondo" Geurts and is under the purview of the Office of Naval Research. The program's main office is located in Alexandria, Virginia, but they have remote employees from across the nation and have Tech Bridge and Centers for Adaptive Warfighting locations across the nation and globe.

Mission
The stated mission of NavalX is to, "Guide Naval stakeholders to rapidly deliver capabilities to the warfighter," to, "Serve as the platform that connects naval needs and challenges with expert solution providers across industry, academia, and the Department of the Navy," and to, "Encourage and foster culture change across the Department of the Navy to make it a more agile, learning, and adaptable organization."

Tech Bridges
The NavalX Tech Bridge network is an interconnected system of 15 individual locations which focus on increasing collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and innovation between Naval labs, industry, academia, and other military branches. Each location has a focus based on their regional innovation ecosystem, while maintaining the ability to tap into the network to connect those in their regions with Tech Bridges in other focus areas, if necessary.

Centers for Adaptive Warfighting (CAW)
The Centers for Adaptive Warfighting, also known as the CAW, serve the service members from across the DOD with courses and workshops such as Warfighter Centered Design and Military Scrum Master. They use frameworks adopted from the software development world such as agile and scrum alongside human-centered design and apply them to the military context. The goal of their work is to improve the processes of military teams to increase war fighting and competitive advantage for the individual and the collective.

Workforce Agility
The Workforce Agility Team