Maintaining fleet readiness in light of today's resource constraints and approaches to operational training is extremely difficult. Time spent at sea is minimal, individual ship training is not well structured or integrated and joint ship training exercises are few relative to need. Continuation of this condition may not be necessary, if the U.S. Navy takes advantage of telecommunication and computer technologies. With these technologies and a common centralized data base most U.S. ship crews located in port could train as if at sea. Individuals could be trained to operate their respective equipment; train as a team; and train as a weapon system.^* Further, ships in port throughout the U.S. could be aggregated as a task force and trained as if in a fleet exercise. In addition, ships at sea or a combination of ships at sea or in port could be pooled to train together. Such a system has the potential for saving millions in operating, maintenance and munitions costs, but still produce a fleet trained and ready to neutralize any attack by an adversary.