Protecting the Sea BaseNDIA Expeditionary Warfare Conference

Rear Admiral Brad Hicks20 October 2004

SeabasingArrive ready with scalable air, maritime, and ground forces without in-theater host nation

or coalition nation support

– rapid force closure seizes strategic initiative

80% of the earth’s population is within range.

Sea Strike and Sea Shield

projected from the Sea Base

under the umbrella of FORCEnet

Compressed timelines for critical mass – MEB size

force in 10-14 days

RF Nodes

2 SSKs

ADS

SURTASS

w/Twinline

P-3, BLOOM

TASWC

Local Tactical RFLocal Tactical RFNetworkNetwork

Global InformationGlobal InformationGridGrid

USW-DSS

TAGS-60 Class

3 SSNs ARCI APB 00/01/03,TB-29 w/ LWTC, WAA, Comms @ Speed&Depth (Seaweb, ACOMMS)

SURTASS

w/LFA

ASWC CRUDES w/IPS, MFTAEER/IEER

SeawebUSV

Sea Glider

Undersea Warfare

Air and Missile Defense

NAVY MD VISION:Resolving Joint Warfighting Gaps

HOMELAND DEFENSE

BMD for APODs, SPODs

SBT

APOD

SPOD

SBT

REGIONAL BMD SM-3

REGIONAL BMD SM-3

REGIONAL BMD SM-3

SM-3 & SBT

Guam

REGIONAL BMD

HLD LRS&T

TWO-TIERED BMDFOR JOINT SEA BASE

REGIONAL BMD

Maritime complement to the Joint MD solutionMaritime complement to the Joint MD solution

• Support Homeland MD• Regional MD• Defense of SPODs/APODs• Defense of Joint Sea Base

NAVY MD VISIONNavy Concept of Operations

Bottom Line: Active defense of the Joint Sea Base is our missionBottom Line: Active defense of the Joint Sea Base is our mission

Tier 1Tier 1

Tier 2Tier 2

VTUAV

MH-60S

Beach/Surf Zone Detection

LCS Mission Packages

7

USV

RMS VTUAVUSVUSV

MH-60R RMS

MH-60R/S

UUV

UUV

Netfires

Running Gear Entanglement

System

ADSMULTISTATIC -

Sonobuoys

EOD

MIWMIW ASWASW SUWSUW

Installed in Mission Module Spaces

VTUAV

TOWEDARRAY

Questions?