1. NDIA Expeditionary Warfare Conference: Joint Seabasing Panel
Moderated by RADM Charlie Hamilton
20 October 04
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2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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 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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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