FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Review of Sea Basing Concepts -- 2 Long-Range Heavy-Lift Aircraft to Enable Sea Basing -- 3 New Ship Classes for Sea Basing -- 4 Open-Ocean Cargo Transfer to and from a Sea Base -- 5 A System-of-Systems Engineering Approach for Joint Sea Basing -- Appendixes -- A Committee and Staff Biographies -- B Agenda for the Committee's Meeting -- C Acronyms and Abbreviations.