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Navy/USMC

Afloat Bases Will Change Naval Operations, SECNAV Says

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, February 21st, 2014

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Afloat Bases Will Change Naval Operations, SECNAV Says

Navy rendering of the AFSB.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus believes that the service’s plans to deploy four afloat staging bases along with small high speed vessels for quickly ferrying troops and supplies will have a significant impact on the way the Navy conducts future operations. “Those ships (the Afloat Forward Staging Bases) and the Joint High Speed Vessels … are helping with modularity in the fleet,” Mabus said at the American Society of Naval Engineers conference outside Washington on Friday. “But it’s also helping change…

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