Protecting the Sea Base NDIA Expeditionary Warfare Conference

Protecting the Sea Base NDIA Expeditionary Warfare Conference Rear Admiral Brad Hicks 20 October 2004 1

Seabasing Arrive ready with scalable air, maritime, and ground forces without intheater host nation or coalition nation support – rapid force closure seizes strategic initiative Compressed timelines for critical mass – MEB size force in 10 -14 days Sea Strike and Sea Shield projected from the Sea Base under the umbrella of FORCEnet 80% of the earth’s population is within range.

Undersea Warfare Global Information Grid P-3, BLOOM Local Tactical RF Network USW-DSS Sea Glider EER/IEER SURTASS 3 SSNs ARCI APB 00/01/03, TB-29 w/ LWTC, w/LFA WAA, Comms @ Speed&Depth (Seaweb, ACOMMS) 2 SSKs TAGS-60 Class ASWC CRUDES w/IPS, MFTA SURTASS w/Twinline TASWC ADS USV Seaweb RF Nodes

Air and Missile Defense

NAVY MD VISION: Resolving Joint Warfighting Gaps • • Support Homeland MD Regional MD Defense of SPODs/APODs Defense of Joint Sea Base HOMELAND DEFENSE HLD LRS&T REGIONAL BMD SM-3 SPOD SBT REGIONAL BMD SM-3 BMD for APODs, SBT SPODs APOD REGIONAL BMD SM-3 & SBT TWO-TIERED BMD FOR JOINT SEA BASE Maritime complement to the Joint MD solution Guam

NAVY MD VISION Navy Concept of Operations Tier 1 Tier 2 tom Line: Active defense of the Joint Sea Base is our miss

LCS Mission Packages ASW MIW MH-60 R VTUAV RMS SUW VTUAV MH-60 R/S USV TOWED ARRAY USV UUV VTUAV USV UUV MH-60 S Netfires EOD ADS MULTISTATIC Sonobuoys Installed in Mission Module Spaces Beach/Surf Zone Detection Running Gear Entanglem ent System 7

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