Enhanced Networked Seabasing (ENS): Prioritizing Surface Sustainment Capabilities

Abstract

An enhanced Combat Logistics Force (CLF) will be capable of providing the surface sustainment needed for Enhanced Networked Seabasing (ENS) to become an operational practice. The Navy's vision and strategy for the future is Sea Power 21. It defines the Navy's operational concept, which is being developed through four interdependent and synergistic Naval Capability Pillars (NCPs): Sea Shield, Sea Strike, Sea Basing, and FORCEnet. ENS is a transformational concept that enables revolutionary forcible entry operations -- the projection, protection, sustainment, and reconstitution of sovereign capabilities around the world. All combat, combat support, and logistics support operations will emanate from the network of ships/seabasing platform. This seabasing platform will be used to house, protect, supply, repair, sustain, and reconstitute the force throughout operations. The sea base will provide the U.S. military the sovereign territory it needs to prosecute combat operations against an enemy geographically protected by bordering nations, or an enemy able to move fluidly within a geographic region. A sustainable sea base, using the operational maneuver space provided by the oceans of the world, opens the littorals to the U.S. Armed Forces in the 21st century. The following prioritization is recommended for the funding and development of replenishment assets: (1) continued development of improved Underway Replenishment (UNREP) capability, (2) additional CLF ships over the next 6-10 years, (3) re-tasking of the CLF to support the operating Expeditionary Strike Groups (ESGs), (4) continued development of the Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future) fleet, and (5) High Speed Vessel (HSV) development.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA520248

Entities

People

  • M. W. Melso

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amphibious Operations
  • Amphibious Ships
  • Combat Forces
  • Combat Operations
  • Combat Support
  • Command And Control
  • Guided Missiles
  • Landing Craft
  • Landing Forces
  • Logistics
  • Marine Transportation
  • Military Operations
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Vessels (Combatant)
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space