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

2. Seabasing
Arrive ready with scalable air, maritime, and ground forces without in-theater host nation or coalition nation support
– rapid force closure seizes strategic initiative
Compressed timelines for critical mass – MEB size force in days
Our Navy’s overarching transformational operating concept is seabasing (as spelled out by the Secretary of the Navy in the Naval Transformation Roadmap). This concept encompasses the Sea Power 21 pillars of Sea Strike, Sea Shield and Sea Base, and explicitly includes the contributions of our Marine Corps in our transformation planning.
Sea basing provides for forward deployed, pre-positioned, and surge forces --
Forward deployed naval forces provide immediate response
Pre-positioned assets enable rapid MEB (approximately 20,000 Marines) employment within days
Surge forces reinforce with follow-on forces
It also requires rapid establishment of the Joint Sea Base --
Operationalized pre-positioned platforms
At sea arrival and assembly of forces
Arrive ready to fight
Scalable capabilities across range of military operations
Command and control for the Joint Force Commander
80% of the earth’s population is
within range.
Sea Strike and Sea Shield
projected from the Sea Base
under the umbrella of FORCEnet

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

4. Air and Missile Defense
Transformational efforts focus on two areas:
Initial deployment of sea-based ballistic missile defense capability, and
Dramatically improved and integrated air and cruise missile defenses.
Sea-based ballistic missile defense will expand JFC options for:
Protecting forward-deployed U.S. and coalition forces and
Protecting key host nation targets from missile-borne CBRNE weapons
And will, support acceleration of sea-based element (in coordination with MDA) of long-range missile defense by OCT 04 as ordered by the President
Naval air defense efforts will provide a highly effective air and missile defense umbrella that reaches over the horizon and deep inland,
Integrating both Navy and Marine Corps systems to extend protection to naval, joint, and coalition forces at sea and ashore.

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

6. NAVY MD VISION Navy Concept of Operations
Tier 1
Tier 2
Bottom Line: Active defense of the Joint Sea Base is our mission

7. Running Gear Entanglement System MULTISTATIC - Sonobuoys
LCS Mission Packages
USV
RMS
VTUAV
MH-60R
MH-60R/S
UUV
Netfires
Running Gear Entanglement System
ADS
MULTISTATIC - Sonobuoys
EOD
MIW
ASW
SUW
Installed in Mission Module Spaces
TOWED
ARRAY
VTUAV
Now what will enable LCS to operate so effectively in so many different environments are its modular mission packages.
As you are aware, we are pursuing an innovative and fast-paced acquisition strategy for both the sea frame and the modules that will provide its true combat power.
The modules will make extensive use of unmanned air, surface, and subsurface vehicles that will enable our Sailors to get the combat power needed in the littoral while reducing the need to put Sailors in the most dangerous environments.
Many of these systems are common to all mission packages, and remain with the ship, such as the Unmanned Surface Vehicles, helicopters, and VTUAVs.
Spiral development
Technology insertion
MH-60S
Beach/Surf Zone Detection 7

8. Questions?