Navy Warfare Development Command Joint Experimentation Session 8th Annual Expeditionary Warfare Conference Wayne Perras Sea Trial Director Navy Warfare Development Command 21 October 2003

Sea Power 21 Sea Shield Sea Strike Sea Basing FORCEnet Sea Trial Sea Warrior Sea Enterprise Sea Power 21 is the CNO’s vision of how our Navy will organize, integrate, and transform in a Joint environment. Strike: the ability to project precise and persistent offensive power from the sea. Shield: extends defensive assurance throughout the world. Basing: enhances operational independence and support for the joint force. FORCEnet: overarching effort to integrate warriors, sensors, networks, command and control, platforms and weapons into a fully netted combat force. Sea Trial is a key process that supports Sea Power 21 by aligning and accelerating the development of enhanced warfighting capabilities for the fleet.

Sea Trial Navy process for Joint transformation NWDC serves as the Project Coordinator for Sea Trial Executive Agent, Fleet Forces Command Continuously improves warfighting effectiveness Integrates emergent concepts and technologies Sustains a commitment to innovation Sea Trial is: A process taken directly from the Naval Transformation Roadmap. It emphasizes transformation and greater interoperability with Joint Forces. The process is concept driven. Future warfighting capabilities are determined first. Candidate technological solutions are then evaluated through rigorous experimentation. Many threads are working simultaneously and the results are being fed back to our Doctrine Development and acquisition processes. We have our job assignment but the position description is still a work in progress.

NWDC Sea Trial Functions Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Doctrine Development Campaign Plan Analysis, Assessment and DOTMLPF Recommendations Project Coordinator NWDC EXPERIMENTATION NWDC has six principal functions in the Sea Trial. Read pillars and highlight base. Each pillar has specific tasks assigned. Modeling & Simulation Support Analysis & Assessment

Approach Sea Trail Campaign Plan June 2003 UNCLASSIFIED “Ready” “Aim” Context • Defense Planning & Transformation Guidance “Ready” • Joint Vision & Warfighting Concepts • Navy Vision: Sea Power 21 • Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Special Operations and COCOM’s Visions, Concepts & Capabilities • Assessments of Navy Mission Effectiveness • Advancing Technology Challenges, Opportunities & Fleet Priorities • Naval, Joint and National • Core Challenges Facing the Navy: Today and in the Future • Adversary Strategic & Tactical Weaknesses • Potential Asymmetric Advantages Over the Adversary “Aim” Strategy-Driven Concepts • Solving the Core Challenges • Creating and Exploiting Adversary Weaknesses • Synergistic with Joint/ Marine Corps / Other Service / COCOM Concepts, Capabilities and Challenges Concept-Driven Experiments • Test and Refine the Concepts • Designed to Answer Key Unknowns Regarding Mission Effectiveness, Implementation Alternatives, and Composing & Operating the Transformed Fleet • Spiral Development and Evaluation Process “Fire” • Allow Evaluation and Guidance by Fleet Commanders and Sailors • Establish Key Performance Thresholds and Material Development Needs • Establish Revised Mission CONOPs • Provide “Fast Track” Prototypes and Key Niche Forces to the Fleet NDCP, Requirements & Develop Doctrine TT&P, and CONOPS Acquisition Process Prioritizes and implements Prioritizes, budgets, and DOTLP improvements UNCLASSIFIED develops material improvements

FY04 Sea Trial Priorities JFMCC / CFMCC Dynamic C2 TASW MIW HSV / LCS Missile Defense From the Sea Base Sea Basing – DoD high priority JFMCC – operational - level joint link, framework for other experimentation Dynamic C2 – committed, complete the spirals ASW – CFFC priority MIW – CFFC priority HSV / LCS – committed (truck & mission modules) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm Vernon E Clark calls the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) programme the US Navy’s (USN’s) “most transformational effort and my number one budget priority”

Many Small Experiments Workshops/Seminars War Games Continuous Experimentation Environment Limited Objective Experiments Experimentation continuum as explained by MBC Simulation Experiments FBE K FBE L FBE M TBD Field Experiments Sea Viking 04 AWEs FBE L APR 2003 SUM 2004 SUM 2005 UNCLASSIFIED

Major Events CIE LOE (14 – 16 Sept) Unified Course (5 -9 Oct) JFMCC War Game (12 – 21 Nov) Terminal Fury (3 – 14 Dec) JTFEX 04-01 (15 – 21 Jan) Multi-Battle Group Synthetic Exercise (23-27 Feb) Unified Quest / Pinnacle Impact 04 (2 – 7 May) JTFEX 04-02 (Jun) Silent Hammer (Jun) RIMPAC (Aug) Sea Viking 04 (25 Oct – 3 Nov ) Global Engagement VII (Nov 04) Command mission emphasizes: Concept development, experimentation, and doctrine development in a joint environment. Intent to support the Navy’s commitment to sustained innovation.

Sea Viking ’04 Multi-event USMC Sponsored Effort MEB Sized Force in 2015 Context Two part Advance Warfighting Experiment (AWE) Part 1 - Simulated (East Coast Venue, MCCDC Lead, II MEF Participation) C2F Participation TBD Part 2 - Live (West Coast Venue, MCWL Lead, III MEF/C3F Participation) Proposed Navy Initiatives JFMCC Distributed Collaborative C2 Assured Access ASW MIW (TBD) HSV Participation LCS Mission Module Testing Sea Basing - Sustainment Strike Support to OMFTS Affordable Weapon System (AWS) Hypersonic Naval Rail Gun UNCLASSIFIED

Major SV’04 Events Sea Viking ‘04 (12 Nov 03 – 6 Nov 04) JFMCC Wargame (Nov 03) (Sea Basing) Concept Wargame (May 04) (All Pillars) Fires LOE (Aug 04) (Sea Strike) Concept Advanced Warfare (All Pillars) Experiment (AWE–1, Oct 04) Prototype AWE (25 Oct – 5 Nov 04) (All Pillars) Significant number of Spiral Events to include: studies, Limited Technical Analysis (LTAs), and wargames make up the other key events supporting the SV’04 campaign. UNCLASSIFIED

Other Recent Initiatives Naval Operating Concept (Naval Concept for Joint Operations) Enhanced Netted Sea Basing Operational Concept Naval Fires Network TACMEMO Littoral Combat Ship CONOPS FORCEnet Dynamic C2 Spiral Experimentation Simulation Support to Pre-deployment Training Our work has resulted in several successes. Teaming with the fleets, SPAWAR and the Air Force, a Naval Fires Network TACMEMO was drafted in just under 6 month’s to support today’s deployers. We also have a feedback mechanism in place to keep it up to date with new techniques and equipment. The Littoral Combat Ship CONOPS was the culmination of three years of work in various experimentation venues. It was shown this kind of force could dismantle area denial systems, reduce risk, ensure persistence of access and increase flexibility in decision making for commanders.  JFCOM has adapted the NWDC conceptual material that went into developing concepts of employment for littoral combatant variants played in Global, JTFExs, M&S and FBEs. NWDC made a significant contribution to the writing of the Naval Operating Concept (now referred to as the Naval Concept for Joint Operations). The formulation of the Enhanced Networked Sea Basing Concept was the result of a joint effort by both NWDC and MCCDC making it truly a Naval concept. Development of the Navy’s JFMCC organization and planning process began in FBE-H. The construct was successfully implemented as part of a full Joint Task Force organization during MC-02. It will now move on to be developed as a Doctrine publication. We just completed a very successful four-phase FY02 experimental program in partnership with ONR and DARPA to mature Agent Based Computing technologies. We now more fully understand their operational utility and their in building a Navy FORCEnet capability. In partnership with with the Army, Special Forces and the Marine Corps, we conducted a series of experiments to test the multi-mission re-configurability of High Speed Vessels. The results are being documented in a Navy DOTMLPF recommendation package for submission to CFFC as part of the requirements process. NWDC also recently completed two proof of concept exercises with C3F and the Nimitz CVBG in the IDTC. The first exercise was demonstrating the capability to do multiship inport training throughout the Battle Force Tactical Training (BFTT) installed shipboard training systems. The second, Exercise Patriot Star, was a Maritime Group Inport Training (MGIT) event where the Nimitz CVBG staff received 72 hours of stressful battle rhythm training at their warfighting stations aboard NIMITZ. This training event is usually held ashore at a generic TFCC facility. For added realism, the ships of the CVBG were included through the BFTT systems. The NWDC experimental M+S simulation was used to generate the scenarios and the stimulation to BFTT and C4I systems aboard the CVBG ships. According to the CPF Cdr, Adm Doran, "we hit a home run“ 4/17/03

Naval Operating Concept INTRODUCTION Naval Operating Concept The NOC describes how integrated Naval forces will operate to provide Joint Force Commanders with decisive power projection capabilities. Offensive, Defensive, Informational, and Assured Access Maintain warfighting advantage by aggressively exploiting concepts that harness the power of information, technology, and innovative organizational structures. In a culture where creativity and initiative are nurtured and rewarded, people will remain our greatest asset. UNCLASSIFIED