The June 2013 U.S. Navy-U.S. Coast Guard National Fleet Policy statement, The National Fleet: A Joint United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, directed the production of this National Fleet Plan. It is intended to identify opportunities to increase the commonality and interoperability of Navy and Coast Guard forces and better enable the two components to operate together in support of their mutual homeland security and national defense missions. In this document, the Navy and Coast Guard have identified authorities, methods, and measurements to achieve efficiency and effectiveness, and jointly developed plans of action and milestones in the following areas: Current and evolving operations Integrated logistics Training Command, control, communications systems Sensors Engineering systems Weapons systems Platforms