NDIA Expeditionary Warfare Conference Joint Seabasing Panel Moderated
NDIA Expeditionary Warfare Conference: Joint Seabasing Panel Moderated by RADM Charlie Hamilton 20 October 04 Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited. (). This Brief is provided for Information Only and does not constitute a commitment on behalf of the U. S. government to provide additional information and / or sale of the system
Agenda • Introduction • Col. Jim Strock, USMC, Ret. Deputy Director, Expeditionary Force Development Center Marine Corps Combat Development Command • Mr. Howard Fireman Director, Future Concepts (SEA 05 D) • CAPT Rich Hooper, USN Program Manager, Amphibious Warfare Program (PMS 377) • CAPT Pat Sudol, USN Program Manager, Support Ships, Boats and Craft, Sealift and Special Mission Ships (PMS 325) • Discussion
Seabasing, a national capability, is the overarching transformational operating concept for projecting and sustaining naval power and joint forces, which assures joint access by leveraging the operational maneuver of sovereign, distributed, and networked forces operating globally from the sea.
Value of Joint Seabasing Arrive ready with scalable air, maritime, and ground forces Provides access, flexibility – seizes strategic initiative Joint C 2, ISR, Fires, Basing, Sustainment Compressed timelines for critical mass – MEB size force in 10 -14 days 80% of the earth’s population is within range. In action without in-theater host nation support Rapid force closure, persistence, self-sufficiency, indefinite sustainment
Seabasing Overarching View Air Surface Future-TBD ASSEMBLE CLOSE Joint Operations Area Inter-theater Airlift APOD Inter-theater Sealift CONUS Commercial Resupply Air/Sea Intermediate Log Site Inter-theater Air lift Inter-theate r Sealift Shuttle Ships Sea Base APS Austere SPODs Intra-theater Air/Sealift Advance Base Shuttle Ships/Aircraft SUSTAIN RECONSTITUTE The sea base is an inherently maneuverable, scalable aggregation of distributed, networked platforms that enable the global power projection of offensive and defensive forces from the sea, and includes the ability to assemble, equip, project, support, and sustain those forces without reliance on land bases within the Joint Operations Area. Not to Scale EMPLOY Joint Forces Immediate /Rapid Response CSG SPOD ESG MPS MPF(F) Tactical Station ships Air/Sealift ARF
Quotations “We envision not only the Navy and Marine Corps operating from these Sea Bases, but the Army, Air Force and Coast Guard using them as well. Access without a permission slip is the fundamental imperative for this new joint approach. ” Navy Secretary Gordon England National Press Club 27 May 2004
Quotations “When I look 20 years from now, I see a Sea Base where we are going to field a capability that’s going to be unlike anything anybody imagined just a few years ago. We see a future where we are going to invest rapidly, as rapidly as we can, in creating the Maritime Pre-positioning Force of the future. ” CNO ADM Vern Clark Sea-Air-Space 4 April 2004
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