Seabasing Symposium 2010 Executive Summary

1. Seabasing Symposium 2010Executive Summary Prepared By: Seabasing Integration Division MAGTF Planning Branch

2. SS-10 Overview Purpose –Enable stakeholders to share information on current and future seabasing capabilities, requirements, emerging technology, and integration efforts. Objective –Seabasing Symposium 2010 will focus on refining Seabasing capabilities using current Navy and maritime platforms and integrating near-term capabilities such as the T-AKE and MLP.

3. Dates: 28-30 September 2010 Location: Bldg 2040, Gray Research Center, MCB Quantico, VA Participants: ~ 150 MPF and Amphibious planners, operators, logisticians and other Seabasing stakeholders Coordination

4. Agenda • Day 1 - PM: Opening/Welcome • Strategic Overview • Current Seabasing Operations • Expeditionary Policy • Expeditionary Exercises • Day 2 - AM: MARFOR Perspectives • PM: Seabasing Centric Working Groups: • Ship Loading & MAGTF Mobility • Building the Sea Base on Billet at a Time • Seabasing Experimentation • Seabasing Doctrine & the Seabasing Brand • Evening: No Host Social • Day 3 - AM: Working Groups Continue • Mid-day: Working Group Out-briefs

5. All SS-10 attendees will be assigned to working groups designed to identify, align, and communicate key issues impacting seabasing The working groups will be facilitated by appropriate branches of the Seabasing Integration Division SS-10 Working Groups

6. Purpose: Develop an incremental strategy to migrate current prepositioning loads from administrative to operational in order to enable Seabasing Objective: Identify Baseline MAGTF Identify afloat resources Align current resources with SSSP, FID, BPC, and COIN employment concepts Develop a strategy to communicate a sea based MAGTF’s value across the ROMO Facilitator: MAGTF Planning Branch, SID Ship Loading & MAGTF Mobility

7. Purpose: Review external Marine Corps billets and assess their ability to support seabasing efforts Objective: Identify current external Marine Corps billets supporting Seabasing Identify potential gaps in external Marine Corps billets supporting Seabasing Identify training and education required to enhance the effectiveness of the Marines in these billets Develop a seabasing communication strategy for Marines serving in external billets. Facilitator: Requirements and Assessments Branch, SID Building the Sea Base One Billet at a Time

8. Purpose: Transition Seabasing Concepts to Doctrine Objective: Codify seabasing experimentation goals and objectives. Identify existing Seabasing capabilities, determine gaps, inform future enhancements and requirements Identify S&T and RDT&E seabasing enablers and opportunities to demonstrate and evaluate utility across seabasing platforms Develop a process necessary to document, report, inform and incorporate Lessons Learned into Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) (CD&I SID C&D) Develop opportunities to conduct seabasing experimentation through optimization of MPF and Amphibious exercise integration Facilitate Maritime Expeditionary interoperability and Naval Integration of new and emerging Combat Capabilities Identify Strategic Communication objectives relative to development of Seabasing enabling capabilities through experimentation Facilitator: Expeditionary Ships Capabilities Branch, SID Seabasing Experimentation

9. Purpose: Examine how seabasing is viewed and defined by the operating forces and the joint community Objective: Discuss and identify the definition of seabasing Identify and discuss seabasing-related doctrine; identify potential doctrinal gaps Develop a template for a seabasing communication strategy to make seabasing more relevant to operational planning and execution Facilitator: Connectors & Doctrine Branch, SID Seabasing Doctrine & the Seabasing Brand

10. Shon Brodie 703.784.6798 Shon.brodie.ctr@usmc.mil Tim Schroeder 703.784.6089 Tim.schroeder@usmc.mil Luke Huffman 703.784.6076 Luke.huffman@usmc.mil Points of Contact