NDIA Expeditionary Warfare Conference: Joint Seabasing Panel Moderated by RADM Charlie Hamilton 20 October 04 Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited. (9/18/2018). 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. Mr. Howard Fireman Deputy Director, Expeditionary Force Development Center Marine Corps Combat Development Command Mr. Howard Fireman Director, Future Concepts (SEA 05D) 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 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 80% of the earth’s population is within range. Joint C2, ISR, Fires, Basing, Sustainment Compressed timelines for critical mass – MEB size force in 10-14 days The strategic value of sea basing is taking advantage of freedom of maneuver, in the greatest maneuver space on the planet… the sea. Operationally, it provides access, speed of response, flexibility and staying power across a range of joint operations without reliance on ashore facilities within the Joint Operational Area. We have a great story here and we’ve been asked how we can more rapidly turn the concept into reality. In action without in-theater host nation support Rapid force closure, persistence, self-sufficiency, indefinite sustainment

Seabasing Overarching View 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 Intra-theater Air/Sealift Shuttle Ships/Aircraft Joint Operations Area SPOD APOD Inter-theater Airlift Inter-theater Sealift Austere SPODs Advance Base CONUS Sea Base Intermediate Log Site Surface Air Future-TBD Commercial Resupply Air/Sea Shuttle Ships CSG ESG MPS MPF(F) Station ships ARF APS CLOSE ASSEMBLE RECONSTITUTE SUSTAIN Tactical Air/Sealift Joint Forces Immediate /Rapid Response EMPLOY Assured Access (Assured Access to the Battlespace) Overseas presence and power projection are possible only if U.S. Military forces have assured access to the battlespace in which they operate and to the shore-based infrastructure from which they operate. Access may be secured by the capabilities of the land, air, maritime, special operations, and space forces to be employed (including forcible entry) from the United States or other locations, or from international waters and airspace…Joint Warfare (JP-1) Connectors: The following descriptions apply for the Seabasing CONOP: • Inter-theater Connectors. Inter-theater connectors include strategic sealift, strategic airlift, and emerging high speed sealift (HSS). These connectors provide the linkage between CONUS and Advance bases, possibly directly to the Sea Base, or possibly directly to the acquired austere/ unimproved or improved Sea Port of Debarkation (SPOD) or Air Port of Debarkation (APOD). These connectors are defined by their ability to deliver high volumes of cargo over strategic distance. • Intra-theater Connectors. Intra-theater connectors provide the air and surface means to move forces and supplies over operational distances within a theater. Intra-theater connectors provide the Joint Force or naval Commander a mobility asset that enables rapid force closure from advanced bases, movement of logistics and the maneuver of forces to the shore. • Tactical/Assault Connectors. Tactical/Assault connectors are surface landing craft and aircraft that provide the means to maneuver forces from the Sea Base to and from objectives ashore in the face of armed opposition.

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