Non-Permissive Global Sea Control

Sea control and sea denial in the Future Fleet is a topic of much discussion, and our next NPS Warfare Innovation Continuum (WIC) will explore related issues and intricacies.

The foundational wartime Navy mission is to establish control of maritime environments where necessary to meet integrated naval and joint campaign objectives. 

• Specific sea control missions range from protection of seaborne logistics to maritime defense of expeditionary basing.
• At the most basic level, this is the Navy’s primary contribution as a joint force enabler.

While we await confirmation of the overarching topic, registration is open to allow guests to meet end of fiscal year travel deadlines - register if you think you'd like to join us in September!

PROJECT OVERVIEW: With one overarching design challenge, eight teams of junior officers and early career engineers will be facilitated through a rapid concept generation process using tools of human-centered design. Each team will present their best concepts on the final morning of the workshop, and these seeds of ideas will inform class projects, thesis work, and research across the NPS campus throughout FY25.

Please indicate your interest area when you register. 

MDA for Sea Control – maritime domain awareness (MDA) involves sensing and making sense of the maritime domain and includes METOC, undersea awareness, and creating a common operating picture (COP).

Integration of Maritime Stakeholders – these include the U.S. Coast Guard, maritime forces of U.S. allies and partner nations, U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM), Military Sealift Command (MSC), and industry/global/commercial/white shipping.

Logistics to and in the WEZ – including resupply, replenishment at sea, reload to rearm, providing on-board defense on logistic ships, and recovery and salvage in the weapons engagement zone (WEZ)

EAB for Sea Control – including Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), Stand-in Forces (SIF), integration with forward Navy forces, and Forward Arming and Refueling Points (FARPS)

UW/IW for Sea Control – (possibly classified) includes leveraging Special Operations Forces (SOF), unconventional means and measures, indigenous and host nation assets for unconventional warfare (UW) and information warfare (IW).

Robots & Drones – includes artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent autonomous systems (IAS), and unmanned vehicles (UxVs) in all domains

Counter Sea Denial

Undersea and Seabed Warfare – (likely classified).

Ops in the Information Environment in Support of Sea Control – (possibly classified) includes electronic warfare (EW), information warfare (IW), CYBER, counterintelligence (CI), psychological operations (PSYOP), human intelligence (HUMINT), space operations (SPACE), and counter SPACE (XSPACE).

C2 for Decision Advantage – includes mesh networking to create an intelligence, surveillance, targeting, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) web to support a maritime operation center (MOC)

Full plenary program, schedule, and other materials will be posted via the left navigation bar when available - check back!!

For questions or more information please email: NWSI Concepts (wiw@nps.edu)