Commanding the Global Fleet Station and the Joint Sea Base

Abstract

By carefully considering the various command structural options available in expeditionary warfare personnel, platforms and capabilities, the U.S. military can leverage these options and other components into an interrelated and more powerful operations program. Particular structural variations are more conducive for supporting and expanding operational maneuver options, including facilitating assured access and entry from the sea. This thesis analyzes complex organizational structures in an effort to maximize the Sea Basing and the Global Fleet Station (GFS) strategies for the U.S. military. Systems engineering analyses were conducted for the GFS and the Joint Sea Base (JSB) based on needs, stakeholders and functions. Qualitative evaluations based on these inputs led to extensive descriptions of organizational characteristics, design parameters and contingency factors for the GFS/JSB. A GFS is a self-sustaining sea base conducting regional operations through tailored and adaptive packages, including launching engagements with partner nations within areas of interest. Based on these analyses, GFS Commanders would perform primarily as crisis managers, overseeing the GFS organization through partisan mutual adjustments made in response to competing demands in the political environment. Configured as a responsive professional bureaucracy, the GFS would be intended to incorporate the standardization of specialized skills it collects, maintains and manages, typically learned elsewhere, i.e., similar to hospitals and universities whose doctors and professors respectively comprise the operating cores. Sea Basing is the culmination of joint combat power from the sea, encompassing select expeditionary joint forces with minimal if any reliance on land bases within the Joint Operations Area.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA476031

Entities

People

  • Peihua Ku

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Department Of State
  • Employment
  • Geography
  • Information Exchange
  • International Organizations
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Organizational Structure
  • Public Administration
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States Transportation Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design