Sea Basing Ensuring Joint Force Access from the Sea (2005) / Chapter Skim
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While the committee agrees with the conclusion of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Sea Basing that Sea Basing is a critical, national, joint military competency to project forces rapidly from the United States, as yet no effective organizational entity has been commissioned that will bear the task of bringing this future joint military capability to reality.1 Even the basic working definitions and therefore the candidate technical solutions for achieving a joint Sea Basing capability differ by Service, resulting in little unanimity on key aspects of the way ahead in fielding a joint sea basing capability. The crux of the problem, as determined by this study, is that one cannot realistically expect the Services to individually or collectively design the grand 1Defense Science Board.
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Key provisions of the overarching Joint Sea Basing Vision should include the following: · The joint Sea Basing mission statement, · The joint Sea Basing concept of operations and employment, · Identification of specific Service and agency roles and missions within the joint Sea Basing concept, · The designation of a Joint Sea Base Planning Office that can grow into a Joint Program Office for the Sea Base and the appointment of a flag or general officer as the responsible system-of-systems executive to implement the Joint Sea Basing Vision and manage joint Sea Basing spiral development,
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. Include All Service and Government Agency Programs in the Joint System-of-Systems Management Plan The designated Joint Sea Base Planning Office should centrally manage and deconflict requirements-generation and procurement programs for all Service components participating in the implementation of joint Sea Basing.
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There are also questions relating to force structure that center on two main issues: command and use. If the sea base ships come under the Military Sealift Command (MSC)
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at forward locations, will also be available, if needed, to sustain the forces ashore as appropriate and feasible. Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Requirements Establishing, defending, and operating the joint sea base in either a contested or benign littoral environment will require a complicated, networked architecture of joint command and control, active and passive situational awareness, information fusion, and the ability to pass these capabilities easily from the sea base to operations ashore and then back again.
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VALUE OF A SYSTEM-OF-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ACHIEVING JOINT SEA BASING CAPABILITY A system-of-systems approach to achieving joint Sea Basing capability would be of value in the following ways: · As "conceived-and-born-joint" capability -- the best path to achieving a joint Sea Basing vision and concept of operations; · For avoiding excess costs of implementation by helping to prioritize individual Service and agency investments; · By offering incentives for joint contributions and investments; · Through the identification and coordination of parallel or sequenced development; and · As the best structure for identifying and anticipating the ripple effect of early decisions upon other related components. RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendation: A Joint Sea Base Planning Office -- directed by a Navy flag officer or a Marine Corps general officer -- should be established.
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Navy and U.S. Marine Corps as the initial lead Services in managing and executing the joint Sea Basing spiral development process.
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To jump-start the joint Sea Basing development process, it would be better to concentrate initially on developing a platform-agnostic approach, which focuses on a system-ofsystems look at appropriate Service roles and missions, new requirements, tactics, doctrine, processes, essential technologies, and desired capabilities. Recommendation: The Department of the Navy should identify one large vessel to be used as a testbed for resolving the known problems, including those related to connectors and internal cargo handling, involved in at-sea cargo transfer at Sea States 3 and 4, or two such vessels if required for an integral flight deck in order to explore issues associated with potential future heavy-lift aircraft.
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A SYSTEM-OF-SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH 67 required in order to successfully and efficiently integrate and field a new joint Sea Basing capability that will be relevant in answering the nation's future needs. Some large vessels, such as an Army large, medium-speed roll on/roll off and, if needed, a reserve carrier, may already be available in the inventory being maintained as contingency assets for rapid activation in a crisis and should be considered as suitable Sea Basing testbeds.
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