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What does the Navy specialize in?

The US Navy has claimed itself as a leading military service integrating Network-Centric Warfare into their doctrine, and many legitimately accept this claim based solely on the efforts the Navy has made to integrate its ships into a network. Unfortunately for those who believe the Navy is a NCW proponent, what the Navy is doing is more akin to ForceNET, not NCW. For almost two decades the network integration of existing and new naval assets into the network has taken what was a service of distinct ships and turned that collection of ships into a coordinated and connected fleet, but it is important to note the only benefits that anyone can truly cite are in Command and Control. There are dozens of topics that have been discussed regarding the wide range of effects this integration effort has done to the doctrine of the Navy, indeed the connectivity has changed the very nature of what Command at Sea is in irreversible ways. I will leave it to Naval officers to decide whether the positives outweigh the negatives as it relates to leadership, but I believe the result has been generally positive at the operational level. There is no evidence at all that the Navy has made any significant effort to field specialized units and leverage NCW to gain more capability through specialization as NCW proponents envisioned. If anything, the more integrated the Navy has become with NCW, the more generalization has become an institutional priority. In fact, despite NCW and its promises, specialization has been shoved in its own box of general capabilities. The ugly reality, based on action, is that in the Navy specializations are neglected and treated with bias primarily because of their specialized skill, and the promotion boards have historically reflected it.