Project Agrippa focuses on developing new naval operational concepts to counter the People's Republic of China in the Indo-Pacific, emphasizing the need for a distributed and survivable logistics network. The project highlights the importance of innovative logistics strategies, including the use of low-profile vessels, to enhance deterrence and adapt to modern naval warfare challenges. Collaboration with stakeholders and military experts aims to inform and enhance the U.S. Navy's strategic capabilities in the region.

1. David Hoyt
- JD Stanford Law ‘20
- MBA Stanford GSB ‘20
- BA International
Relations ‘13
Jonathan Deemer
- JD Stanford Law ‘23
- MA International Policy ‘23
- BA International Relations
- BS Business Administration
Jack Carney
- BA Economics ‘21
William Healzer
- BA Political Science ‘22
- BA History ‘22
Kyle Duchynski
- MS MS&E ‘22
- BA Economics &
International Security
Studies ‘21
Final Problem Statement
To retain credible conventional
deterrence against the PRC in the Indo-
Pacific, U.S. joint forces must employ a
distributed, survivable force to impose
increased costs for the PRC. This strategy
depends on distributed, covert, low-
cost logistics systems that can survive
within the weapons engagement zone.
Original Problem Statement
The United States Navy needs new
operational concepts to incorporate
emerging technologies in order to
successfully compete and deter
aggression in the Indo-Pacific.
Military Mentor: CDR Jeff Vanak
Business Mentor: Marco Romani
Business Mentor: Rachel Costello
Project Sponsor:
Dr. Jason Stack
TOTAL INTERVIEWS: 242
Portions redacted at request of stakeholders

2. Agrippa’s Origin Story
Stanford’s Technology, Innovation, and
Modern War last fall emphasized
competiton isn’t just technology—it is how
you employ it
Our group sought to pioneer a novel
Hacking for Strategy course model, using the
Lean methodology for future Concepts of
Operations
8 weeks later Pacific Fleet Command requested we redact portions of our brief
This is Project Agrippa’s story

3. Agrippa Starting point—the library
Original Hypothesis to test: Exquisite, legacy U.S. maritime platforms cannot survive
within the weapons engagement zone (“WEZ”), eroding conventional U.S. deterrence
WEEK 1 MVP: Warfare is going undersea
1
“Whenever you face a new problem, it is time to crack open an old book” - Submarine Captain
The team read over 30 books to understand the problem

4. Understanding the PRC Threat in the Indo-Pacific
A2/AD Research Sprint
Created open-source satellite
imagery maps of A2/AD ecosystem
WEEK 2 MVP takeaway: A2/AD threat is real and credible
2

5. Agrippa Selects the Marine Corps’ Expeditionary Advanced Base
Operations (EABO) Concept for Further Study
EABO Counters A2/AD
EABO provides U.S. maritime forces with a
distributed and survivable force able to
impose costs on the PRC within the A2/AD
threat environment
Agrippa crafts its own EABO implementation map Agrippa followed Gen.
Berger’s EABO remarks
3
REDACTED

6. 3
Then the Marines Called Us

7. Sustainment is an unsolved pain point
III MEF
(Marine Expeditionary Force stationed in Okinawa)
[There is a] “Critical shortage of
military shipping—Gotta bring a lot
of cash … Here in the Pacific, would
think we have a lot more ships, but
we don’t.”
“To even move anything to
Ishima was 2.5 weeks of
paperwork just to get barges
and ferries paid for, [and]
weeks of emergency classes.”
“We have to start thinking out of
the box—not just military vessels
and planes… The drug cartels know
what they are doing smuggling
across borders. ... [We are] Starting
to research this.”
“Need cheap, survivable, small vessels
… [but] everyone is hesitant to buy a new
asset for the Navy & the Marine Corps
defense budget.”

8. Agrippa rapidly pivoted to focus on EABO logistics
Logistics is the Achilles Heel for America in the Indo-Pacific
3

9. DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions
would be shared with ONR,
ASD(IPSA), J7
● Initial testing of concepts
through wargaming
simulation
● Eventual scaling to
maritime training exercises
MISSION BUDGET/COST
● Potential Site Visits (contingent on COVID)
○ INDOPACOM HQ
○ Naval Base Guam
○ U.S. Forces Japan
○ ONR Offices
KEY RESOURCES
● Access to Stanford-
based experts
● Fresh perspectives on
problem set
● Desire to make a
difference for our country
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Assessment of
vulnerabilities and avenues
for strategic advantage for
the Navy, particularly in the
underwater space.
● Assessment of future
undersea competition
incorporating relevant state
and non-state actor
objectives and
technological advances
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the problem
sets facing the Navy and
incorporating the Lean
Launchpad methodology to
create novel and dynamic
strategic concepts.
MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve Navy’s ability to adapt to future of naval warfare
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts
into National Defense Strategy and/or Navy Strategic Documents
● Inform ONR research agenda and funding priorities
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 2-19-21 Version:1.0
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - U.S. Navy
resources within
INDOPACOM (U.S. Marine
Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army,
U.S. Air Force, DoD
employees)
Secondary - Military Sealift
Command and global U.S.
military forces
Tertiary - U.S. regional allies
and partners
Fill this in! See our
guide (posted on the
website) for more
information.
Mission/Problem Description: New
Naval Operational Concepts
KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
○ Provide
ongoing
feedback on
deliverable
● H4D Teaching
Team
○ Provide
ongoing advice
and stress-test
ideas
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Scope problem
○ Must first understand full problem
set Navy is facing
● Devise potential solutions
○ Get outside the building and think
creatively
● Stress test ideas
○ Get feedback from sponsor and
other experts
● Synthesize learnings
● Iterate with problem sponsor
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing
naval research enterprise,
including ONR, Naval Research
Lab, etc. to devise solution
● Need buy in from existing
naval operational
infrastructure to implement
new operational concepts

10. DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions
would be shared with ONR,
PACFLT, INDOPACOM, J7,
ASD(IPSA), NPS
● Initial testing of concepts
through wargaming
simulation software
● Eventual scaling to
maritime training exercises
KEY RESOURCES
● Large literature review (1000+
pages a week)
● Access to Stanford-based
academic & military experts
● Fresh perspectives on problem
set
MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve U.S. maritime forces’ Navy’s ability to adapt to future of naval
warfare PLA A2/AD capabilities
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts
into National Defense Strategy, and/or Navy Strategic Documents,
and/or O-Plans
● Inform ONR research agenda and NDAA funding priorities
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 04-06-21
Version:1.2
Fill this in! See our
guide (posted on the
website) for more
information.
Mission/Problem Description: New
Naval Operational Concepts
KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
[Sponsor]
○ Provide
ongoing
feedback on
deliverable
● INDOPACOM
● H4D Teaching Team
○ Provide
ongoing advice
and stress-test
ideas
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing
naval operations planning
research enterprise, including
PACFLT, INDOPACOM, OPNAV,
Joint Staff Naval Research Lab,
etc. to research & devise
solution
● Need buy in from existing naval
operational infrastructure to
implement new operational
concepts
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - U.S. Navy resources
within INDOPACOM (U.S.
Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S.
Army, U.S. Air Force, DoD
employees) PACFLT (N03: N-8,
N-9, N04: N-3, N-5)
Secondary - Military Sealift
Command and global U.S.
military forces INDOPACOM (J-
3, J-5, J-8); U.S. Marine Forces
Pacific
Tertiary - OPNAV (N-7, N-9),
Joint Staff (J-3, J-5, J-7); U.S.
regional allies (especially Japan,
ROK) and partners
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Broad Problem: Understand A2/AD
impacts on U.S. strategy and capabilities
● Scope Select aspect of broad problem
to focus research
○ Must first understand full problem set Navy is facing
● Devise potential solutions
○ Get outside the building and think creatively
○ Strategy vs. Operational concepts
● Stress test ideas Get feedback from
sponsor & experts on solution efficacy
& weaknesses
● Synthesize learnings
● Iterate solutions with problem sponsor
MISSION BUDGET/COST
● Research Resources
○ Books
○ Wargaming
Software/Board Games
○ Zotero
● Potential Site Visits (contingent on
COVID)
○ ONR Office
○ San Diego Naval Facilities
○ Naval Postgraduate School
○ Camp H.M. Smith
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the A2/AD
problem sets facing the Navy
and incorporating the Lean
Launchpad methodology to
create novel and dynamic
strategic operational concepts /
strategies.
● Further value propositions TBD
until specific aspect of A2/AD
problem selected
● Assessment of vulnerabilities
and avenues for strategic
advantage the Navy,
particularly in the unmanned /
undersea space.
● Assessment of future
unmanned / undersea
competition incorporating
relevant state and non-state
actor objectives and
technological advances
3
The team scrapped
its original mission
model canvas and
restarted

11. “If we are fully mobilized on day 0 of fighting,
by day 3-4 it becomes a logistical challenge.”
Office for the Under Secretary of Defense - Policy
“You could drive a truck through the holes in
EABO sustainment.”
Pacific Fleet Command
“What we consider with respect to naval dominance
has gotten lazy about sustainment capabilities—
what can barely sustain us in peacetime falls apart
against a peer threat.”
Department of the Navy
“[Navy] Will not risk experimentation with
logistics because it will mean they won’t
meet certification objectives and deploy on
time”
Office of Naval Research
Our pivot to logistics proved prescient

12. Team morale plummeted as the scope
of logistical problems increased
But our resolve hardened
The U.S. might lose
a war with China
because of logistics

13. Distributed lethality meets logistics
Logistics must also become decentralized, attritible, and discrete to increase
survivability of U.S. assets, impose costs on the PRC, paralyze the PRC’s OODA
loop, and ultimately decrease PRC lethality
Distributed logistics is a tactical enabler that supports strategic deterrence

14. New Platforms to Decentralize Logistics
Low-Profile Vessels & REDACTED
4
Agrippa called submarine experts, REDACTED, and the
REDACTED to figure out how narcosubs work
REDACTED
● “Narco-subs” provide discrete,
attritible resupply to EABs
● REDACTED

15. But how would these
Low-Profile Vessels (LPVs)
work?

16. Technical specifications
determined by:
1. Arbitrarily define
requirements;
2. Ask for feedback from
SMEs;
3. Refine across 50+
interviews

17. Proposed LPV Platform Capabilities
Agrippa’s interview flywheel produced high-level specs for our LPV
5
REDACTED

18. KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
[Sponsor]
KEY RESOURCES
● Large literature review (1000+
pages a week)
● Access to academic & military
experts
● Fresh perspectives on problem
● Google Earth Suite & Open-
Source Research
● Command (software)
● Lightning Press SMARTbooks
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 04-27-21 Version:1.5
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - 31st MEU (LtCol Nak),
7th Fleet (CAPT LeBron),
INDOPACOM (J-3 (RADM
LeClair), J-5 (Dr. Allen Hjelmfelt),
J-8); 3rd MEF
Secondary - PACFLT (N03: N-8,
N-9, N04: N-3, N-5 (Bob Hein)),
MARFORPAC
Tertiary - OPNAV (N-7, N-9
(Michael Stewart), Joint Staff (J-
3, J-5, J-7); U.S. regional allies
(especially Japan, PHL) and
partners (PHL)
Mission/Problem Description: New
Naval Operational Concepts
MISSION BUDGET/COST MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve U.S. maritime forces’ ability to adapt to PLA A2/AD capabilities and
impose costs by supporting a distributed and survivable logistics network to sustain
the USMC EABO
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts into
National Defense Strategy, Naval Strategic Documents, and/or O-Plans
● Inform ONR research agenda and NDAA funding priorities
● Push novel CONOPs through the DoD research, procurement, and planning
ecosystem to accelerate the pace of change toward solution
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Broad Problem: Understand U.S.
vulnerabilities to A2/AD and cost
imposition response strategies
● Selected logistics for EABO as
discrete aspect of broad
problem to focus research
● Devise potential solutions
○ Strategy vs. Operational
concepts
○ EABO combat logistics,
exquisite resupply at standoff
distance
○ Management strategies, push
operations, software for
logistics
● Get feedback from sponsor &
experts on solution efficacy &
weaknesses
● Iterate solutions
● Determine form of final
deliverable
● Research Resources
○ Books
○ Wargaming Software
(Command)/Games
○ Zotero
○ USNWC subscription
○ Janes Defense Group
● Potential Site Visits (contingent on
COVID) to brief final deliverable:
○ Naval Postgraduate School
○ San Diego Naval & USMC Facilities
○ Camp H.M. Smith
○ INDOPACOM
○ ONR Office
○ Congressional Offices / Staff
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the A2/AD
problem set facing the Navy to
create novel operational
concepts / strategies.
● Design CONOPs for existing
ONR Division 331’s R&D
priorities
● Provide a coherent CONOP for
distributed logistics to sustain
distributed lethality
● Cross-pollinate novel solutions
across DoD and external
experts to break down
information silos
● Explore NDAA amendment to
empower beneficiaries
DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions would be
shared with ONR, PACFLT,
INDOPACOM, MARFORPAC, 31st
MEU,
● Initial testing of concepts through
wargaming simulation software &
CAPE validation
● Eventual scaling to maritime training
exercises
● May require funding or statutory
NDAA amendment language
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing naval
operations planning enterprise,
including PACFLT, INDOPACOM,
OPNAV, MARFORPAC, Joint Staff
etc. to research & devise solution
● Need buy-in from naval research
organizations to identify, fund, and
develop new technologies and
prototype them
● Defense industry’s role in selecting
and expediting programs is integral
● EABO Concept needs support of
JPN and PHL governments
● Must understand whether POEs,
SYSCOMs, & PORs are allies or
antibodies
6
Agrippa shifts from
‘good ideas’ to
implementation

19. Establishing Stakeholder Buy-in in a 350,000+ Person Org
7

20. Establishing Stakeholder Buy-in in a 350,000+ Person Org
7
INDOPACOM,
Pacific Fleet, and
Marine Forces
Pacific are key
end beneficiaries

21. Establishing Stakeholder Buy-in in a 350,000+ Person Org
7
The acquisition arm
of the Department
of the Navy is also
essential

22. To convince our stakeholders, we
chose to get out of the building
Jack Carney untangled the DoD
bureaucracy, cold calling 100+ officials
and inviting them for outbriefs

23. DLA - Indo Pacific
Commander, Deputy
Commander, Chief of
Staff (on their day off)
4 cities, 6 bases, 100+ officials, 1 week
18 MEDCOM
I MEF
G2, G35, G4,
G5
INDOPACOM
J00, J46, J5, J9, CNA,
ONR, SOCPAC
MARFORPAC
G4, G5, G8, G9,
ONR, J46
PACFLT
N4, N5, N8, N9,
ONR, SOCPAC,
CAG
NSWC
N4, N5, N9, ONR
OPNAV
N7
Rep. Colleen
Hanabusa (Ret.)

24. Final MVP - Brief Designed for Identified Stakeholders
[1] The A2/AD Problem [2] EABO Concept [3] LPV OV-1
[4] Platform Operational Math [5] Supplemental Technology [6] Concept Implementation [7] Stakeholder Deployment
REDACTED REDACTED
REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED

25. Final MVP - Brief Designed for Identified Stakeholders
[1] The A2/AD Problem [2] EABO Concept [3] Connector Platform OV-1
[4] Platform Operational Math [5] Supplemental Technology [6] Concept Implementation [7] Stakeholder Deployment
REDACTED REDACTED
REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED
“This is the best brief we have seen in 3 years. … Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop
Grumman come and pitch us but your presentation was better.”
U.S. Pacific Fleet

26. Agrippa Continues
Office of the
Chief of
Naval
Operations
Office of
Naval
Research
Marine
Corp
Warfightin
g
Laboratory
Office of the
Under
Secretary of
Defense for
Policy
Summer Out Briefs: Follow-on Work For:
United
States
Pacific Fleet
Marine
Corps Forces
Pacific
Office of
Naval
Research
NavalX
Office of the
Chief of
Naval
Operations
Defense
Logistics
Agency Indo-
Pacific
United
States Indo-
Pacific
Command
Naval
Special
Warfare
Command

27. It is imperative America gets
competition with the PRC right
The stakes could not be higher

28. Hacking for Strategy
“The process you used is more important than the product”
- ADM Scott Swift (ret.)
● Hacking 4 Strategy: Follow-on Stanford teams working on strategy & operational
concepts projects to solve problems recommended by sponsors
● Get involved: Sponsor teams, join our affiliate network, attend our programming
● David Hoyt is the point of contact dhoyt@stanford.edu

29. Mission Model Canvas Slides

30. DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions
would be shared with ONR,
ASD(IPSA), J7
● Initial testing of concepts
through wargaming
simulation
● Eventual scaling to
maritime training exercises
MISSION BUDGET/COST
● Potential Site Visits (contingent on COVID)
○ INDOPACOM HQ
○ Naval Base Guam
○ U.S. Forces Japan
○ ONR Offices
KEY RESOURCES
● Access to Stanford-
based experts
● Fresh perspectives on
problem set
● Desire to make a
difference for our country
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Assessment of
vulnerabilities and avenues
for strategic advantage for
the Navy, particularly in the
underwater space.
● Assessment of future
undersea competition
incorporating relevant state
and non-state actor
objectives and
technological advances
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the problem
sets facing the Navy and
incorporating the Lean
Launchpad methodology to
create novel and dynamic
strategic concepts.
MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve Navy’s ability to adapt to future of naval warfare
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts
into National Defense Strategy and/or Navy Strategic Documents
● Inform ONR research agenda and funding priorities
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 2-19-21 Version:1.0
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - U.S. Navy
resources within
INDOPACOM (U.S. Marine
Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army,
U.S. Air Force, DoD
employees)
Secondary - Military Sealift
Command and global U.S.
military forces
Tertiary - U.S. regional allies
and partners
Fill this in! See our
guide (posted on the
website) for more
information.
Mission/Problem Description: New
Naval Operational Concepts
KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
○ Provide
ongoing
feedback on
deliverable
● H4D Teaching
Team
○ Provide
ongoing advice
and stress-test
ideas
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Scope problem
○ Must first understand full problem
set Navy is facing
● Devise potential solutions
○ Get outside the building and think
creatively
● Stress test ideas
○ Get feedback from sponsor and
other experts
● Synthesize learnings
● Iterate with problem sponsor
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing
naval research enterprise,
including ONR, Naval Research
Lab, etc. to devise solution
● Need buy in from existing
naval operational
infrastructure to implement
new operational concepts

31. DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions
would be shared with ONR,
ASD(IPSA), J7
● Initial testing of concepts
through wargaming
simulation software
● Eventual scaling to
maritime training exercises
MISSION BUDGET/COST
● Potential Site Visits (contingent on COVID)
○ San Diego Naval Facilities
○ Naval Postgraduate School
○ INDOPACOM HQ
○ ONR Offices
KEY RESOURCES
● Access to Stanford-
based experts
● Fresh perspectives on
problem set
● Desire to make a
difference for our country
● Large literature review
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Assessment of
vulnerabilities and avenues
for strategic advantage for
the Navy, particularly in the
unmanned / undersea
space.
● Assessment of future
unmanned / undersea
competition incorporating
relevant state and non-state
actor objectives and
technological advances
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the problem
sets facing the Navy and
incorporating the Lean
Launchpad methodology to
create novel and dynamic
strategic concepts.
MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve Navy’s ability to adapt to future of naval warfare
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts
into National Defense Strategy and/or Navy Strategic Documents
● Inform ONR research agenda and NDAA funding priorities
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 03-30-21 Version:1.1
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - U.S. Navy
resources within
INDOPACOM (U.S. Marine
Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army,
U.S. Air Force, DoD
employees)
Secondary - Military Sealift
Command and global U.S.
military forces
Tertiary - U.S. regional allies
and partners
Fill this in! See our
guide (posted on the
website) for more
information.
Mission/Problem Description: New
Naval Operational Concepts
KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
○ Provide
ongoing
feedback on
deliverable
● INDOPACOM
● H4D Teaching
Team
○ Provide
ongoing advice
and stress-test
ideas
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Scope problem
○ Must first understand full problem
set Navy is facing
● Devise potential solutions
○ Get outside the building and think
creatively
● Stress test ideas
○ Get feedback from sponsor and
other experts
● Synthesize learnings
● Iterate with problem sponsor
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing
naval research enterprise,
including ONR, Naval Research
Lab, etc. to devise solution
● Need buy in from existing
naval operational
infrastructure to implement
new operational concepts
● Research Resources
○ Zotero
○ Wargaming
Software/Board
Games
○ Books

32. DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions
would be shared with ONR,
PACFLT, INDOPACOM, J7,
ASD(IPSA), NPS
● Initial testing of concepts
through wargaming
simulation software
● Eventual scaling to
maritime training exercises
MISSION BUDGET/COST
KEY RESOURCES
● Large literature review (1000+
pages a week)
● Access to Stanford-based
academic & military experts
● Fresh perspectives on problem
set
MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve U.S. maritime forces’ Navy’s ability to adapt to future of naval
warfare PLA A2/AD capabilities
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts
into National Defense Strategy, and/or Navy Strategic Documents,
and/or O-Plans
● Inform ONR research agenda and NDAA funding priorities
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 04-06-21 Version:1.2
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - U.S. Navy resources
within INDOPACOM (U.S.
Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S.
Army, U.S. Air Force, DoD
employees) PACFLT (N03: N-8,
N-9, N04: N-3, N-5)
Secondary - Military Sealift
Command and global U.S.
military forces INDOPACOM (J-
3, J-5, J-8); U.S. Marine Forces
Pacific
Tertiary - OPNAV (N-7, N-9),
Joint Staff (J-3, J-5, J-7); U.S.
regional allies (especially Japan,
ROK) and partners
Fill this in! See our
guide (posted on the
website) for more
information.
Mission/Problem Description: New
Naval Operational Concepts
KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
[Sponsor]
○ Provide
ongoing
feedback on
deliverable
● INDOPACOM
● H4D Teaching Team
○ Provide
ongoing advice
and stress-test
ideas
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing
naval operations planning
research enterprise, including
PACFLT, INDOPACOM, OPNAV,
Joint Staff Naval Research Lab,
etc. to research & devise
solution
● Need buy in from existing naval
operational infrastructure to
implement new operational
concepts
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Broad Problem: Understand A2/AD
impacts on U.S. strategy and capabilities
● Scope Select aspect of broad problem
to focus research
○ Must first understand full problem set Navy is facing
● Devise potential solutions
○ Get outside the building and think creatively
○ Strategy vs. Operational concepts
● Stress test ideas Get feedback from
sponsor & experts on solution efficacy
& weaknesses
● Synthesize learnings
● Iterate solutions with problem sponsor
● Research Resources
○ Books
○ Wargaming
Software/Board Games
○ Zotero
● Potential Site Visits (contingent on
COVID)
○ ONR Office
○ San Diego Naval Facilities
○ Naval Postgraduate School
○ Camp H.M. Smith
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the A2/AD
problem sets facing the Navy
and incorporating the Lean
Launchpad methodology to
create novel and dynamic
strategic operational concepts /
strategies.
● Further value propositions TBD
until specific aspect of A2/AD
problem selected
● Assessment of vulnerabilities
and avenues for strategic
advantage the Navy,
particularly in the unmanned /
undersea space.
● Assessment of future
unmanned / undersea
competition incorporating
relevant state and non-state
actor objectives and
technological advances

33. DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions would
be shared with ONR, PACFLT,
INDOPACOM, MARFORPAC, J7,
ASD(IPSA), NPS
● Initial testing of concepts
through wargaming simulation
software
● Eventual scaling to maritime
training exercises
MISSION BUDGET/COST
KEY RESOURCES
● Large literature review (1000+
pages a week)
● Access to academic & military
experts
● Fresh perspectives on problem
● Google Earth Suite & Open-
Source Research
● Command (software)
MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve U.S. maritime forces’ ability to adapt to PLA A2/AD
capabilities and impose costs through sustained EABO operations
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts
into National Defense Strategy, Navaly Strategic Documents, and/or O-
Plans
● Inform ONR research agenda and NDAA funding priorities
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 04-13-21 Version:1.3
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - INDOPACOM (J-3, J-5,
J-8); U.S. Marine Forces Pacific
PACFLT (N03: N-8, N-9, N04: N-
3, N-5)
Secondary - INDOPACOM (J-3, J-
5, J-8); U.S. Marine Forces
Pacific PACFLT (N03: N-8, N-9,
N04: N-3, N-5)
Tertiary - OPNAV (N-7, N-9),
Joint Staff (J-3, J-5, J-7); U.S.
regional allies (especially Japan,
ROK, IDN, PHL) and partners
Fill this in! See our
guide (posted on the
website) for more
information.
Mission/Problem Description: New
Naval Operational Concepts
KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
[Sponsor]
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing naval
operations planning enterprise,
including PACFLT, INDOPACOM,
OPNAV, MARFORPAC, Joint Staff
etc. to research & devise solution
● Need buy in from existing naval
operational infrastructure to
implement new operational
concepts
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Broad Problem: Understand U.S.
vulnerabilities to A2/AD and cost
imposition response strategies impacts
on U.S. strategy and capabilities
● Select aspect of broad problem to focus
research
● Devise potential solutions
○ Strategy vs. Operational concepts
○ EABO combat logistics, exquisite
resupply at standoff distance
● Get feedback from sponsor & experts
on solution efficacy & weaknesses
● Iterate solutions
● Research Resources
○ Books
○ Wargaming Software
(Command)/Games
○ Zotero
○ USNWC subscription
● Potential Site Visits (contingent on
COVID)
○ ONR Office
○ San Diego Naval Facilities
○ Naval Postgraduate School
○ Camp H.M. Smith
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the A2/AD
problem sets facing the Navy to
create novel operational
concepts / strategies.
● Further value propositions TBD
until specific aspect of A2/AD
problem selected
● Design CONOPs for existing
ONR Division 331’s R&D
priorities

34. DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions would
be shared with ONR, PACFLT,
INDOPACOM, MARFORPAC, 31st
MEU, J7, ASD(IPSA), NPS
● Initial testing of concepts
through wargaming simulation
software
● Eventual scaling to maritime
training exercises
MISSION BUDGET/COST
KEY RESOURCES
● Large literature review (1000+
pages a week)
● Access to academic & military
experts
● Fresh perspectives on problem
● Google Earth Suite & Open-
Source Research
● Command (software)
MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve U.S. maritime forces’ ability to adapt to PLA A2/AD capabilities and
impose costs through by supporting a distributed and survivable logistics network
to sustain the USMC EABO
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts into
National Defense Strategy, Naval Strategic Documents, and/or O-Plans
● Inform ONR research agenda and NDAA funding priorities
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 04-20-21 Version:1.4
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - 31st MEU (LtCol Nak),
7th Fleet (CAPT LeBron),
INDOPACOM (J-3, J-5, J-8);
MARFORPAC, 3rd MEF
Secondary - PACFLT (N03: N-8,
N-9, N04: N-3, N-5),
MARFORPAC
Tertiary - OPNAV (N-7, N-9),
Joint Staff (J-3, J-5, J-7); U.S.
regional allies (especially Japan,
ROK, IDN, PHL) and partners
Fill this in! See our
guide (posted on the
website) for more
information.
Mission/Problem Description: New
Naval Operational Concepts
KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
[Sponsor]
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing naval
operations planning enterprise,
including PACFLT, INDOPACOM,
OPNAV, MARFORPAC, Joint Staff
etc. to research & devise solution
● Need buy in from existing naval
operational infrastructure to
implement new operational
concepts
● Need support of JPN and PHL
governments
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Broad Problem: Understand U.S.
vulnerabilities to A2/AD and cost
imposition response strategies
● Selected logistics for EABO as discrete
aspect of broad problem to focus
research
● Devise potential solutions
○ Strategy vs. Operational concepts
○ EABO combat logistics, exquisite
resupply at standoff distance
○ Management strategies, push
operations, software for logistics
● Get feedback from sponsor & experts
on solution efficacy & weaknesses
● Iterate solutions
● Research Resources
○ Books
○ Wargaming Software
(Command)/Games
○ Zotero
○ USNWC subscription
○ Janes Defense Group
● Potential Site Visits (contingent on
COVID)
○ ONR Office
○ San Diego Naval Facilities
○ Naval Postgraduate School
○ Camp H.M. Smith
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the A2/AD
problem sets facing the Navy to
create novel operational
concepts / strategies.
● Design CONOPs for existing
ONR Division 331’s R&D
priorities
● Provide a coherent CONOP for
distributed logistics to sustain
distributed lethality

35. MISSION BUDGET/COST
KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
[Sponsor]
KEY RESOURCES
● Large literature review (1000+
pages a week)
● Access to academic & military
experts
● Fresh perspectives on problem
● Google Earth Suite & Open-
Source Research
● Command (software)
● Lightning Press SMARTbooks
MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve U.S. maritime forces’ ability to adapt to PLA A2/AD capabilities and
impose costs by supporting a distributed and survivable logistics network to sustain
the USMC EABO
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts into
National Defense Strategy, Naval Strategic Documents, and/or O-Plans
● Inform ONR research agenda and NDAA funding priorities
● Push novel CONOPs through the DoD research, procurement, and planning
ecosystem to accelerate the pace of change toward solution
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 04-27-21 Version:1.5
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - 31st MEU (LtCol Nak),
7th Fleet (CAPT LeBron),
INDOPACOM (J-3 (RADM
LeClair), J-5 (Dr. Allen Hjelmfelt),
J-8); 3rd MEF
Secondary - PACFLT (N03: N-8,
N-9, N04: N-3, N-5 (Bob Hein)),
MARFORPAC
Tertiary - OPNAV (N-7, N-9
(Michael Stewart), Joint Staff (J-
3, J-5, J-7); U.S. regional allies
(especially Japan, PHL) and
partners (PHL)
Mission/Problem Description: New
Naval Operational Concepts
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing naval
operations planning enterprise,
including PACFLT, INDOPACOM,
OPNAV, MARFORPAC, Joint Staff
etc. to research & devise solution
● Need buy-in from naval research
organizations to identify, fund, and
develop new technologies and
prototype them
● Defense industry’s role in selecting
and expediting programs is integral
● EABO Concept needs support of
JPN and PHL governments
● Must understand whether POEs,
SYSCOMs, & PORs are allies or
antibodies
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Broad Problem: Understand U.S.
vulnerabilities to A2/AD and cost
imposition response strategies
● Selected logistics for EABO as
discrete aspect of broad
problem to focus research
● Devise potential solutions
○ Strategy vs. Operational
concepts
○ EABO combat logistics,
exquisite resupply at standoff
distance
○ Management strategies, push
operations, software for
logistics
● Get feedback from sponsor &
experts on solution efficacy &
weaknesses
● Iterate solutions
● Determine form of final
deliverable
● Research Resources
○ Books
○ Wargaming Software
(Command)/Games
○ Zotero
○ USNWC subscription
○ Janes Defense Group
● Potential Site Visits (contingent on
COVID) to brief final deliverable:
○ Naval Postgraduate School
○ San Diego Naval & USMC Facilities
○ Camp H.M. Smith
○ INDOPACOM
○ ONR Office
○ Congressional Offices / Staff
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the A2/AD
problem set facing the Navy to
create novel operational
concepts / strategies.
● Design CONOPs for existing
ONR Division 331’s R&D
priorities
● Provide a coherent CONOP for
distributed logistics to sustain
distributed lethality
● Cross-pollinate novel solutions
across DoD and external
experts to break down
information silos
● Explore NDAA amendment to
empower beneficiaries
DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions would be
shared with ONR, PACFLT,
INDOPACOM, MARFORPAC, 31st
MEU,
● Initial testing of concepts through
wargaming simulation software &
CAPE validation
● Eventual scaling to maritime training
exercises
● May require funding or statutory
NDAA amendment language

36. MISSION BUDGET/COST
KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
[Sponsor]
KEY RESOURCES
● Large literature review (1000+
pages a week)
● Access to academic & military
experts
● Fresh perspectives on problem
● Google Earth Suite & Open-
Source Research
● Command (software)
● Lightning Press SMARTbooks
MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve U.S. maritime forces’ ability to adapt to PLA A2/AD capabilities and
impose costs by supporting a distributed and survivable logistics network to sustain
the USMC EABO
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts into
National Defense Strategy, and Naval Strategic Documents, and/or O-Plans
● Inform ONR research agenda and NDAA funding priorities
● Push novel CONOPs through the DoD research, procurement, and planning
ecosystem to accelerate the pace of change toward solution
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 05-04-21 Version: 1.6
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - 31st MEU (LtCol Nak);
3rd MEF (LtGen Clardy); 7th
Fleet (CAPT LeBron);
INDOPACOM (J3 (RADM
LeClair), J5 (Dr. Hjelmfelt), J8);
Secondary - PACFLT (N03: N4,
N8, N9, N04: N3, N5 (Bob Hein),
N53); MARFORPAC (G3/5/7,
G35, G9);
Tertiary - OPNAV (N7, N9
(Michael Stewart)), Joint Staff
(J3, J5, J7); U.S. regional allies
(especially Japan) and partners
(PHL)
Mission/Problem Description:
New Naval Operational Concepts
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing naval
operations planning enterprise,
including PACFLT, INDOPACOM,
OPNAV, MARFORPAC, Joint Staff
etc. to research & devise solution
● Need buy-in from naval research
organizations to identify, fund, and
develop new technologies and
prototype them
● Defense industry’s role in selecting
and expediting programs is integral
● EABO Concept needs support of
JPN and PHL governments
● Must understand whether POEs,
SYSCOMs, & PORs are allies or
antibodies
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Broad Problem: Understand U.S.
vulnerabilities to A2/AD and cost
imposition response strategies
● Selected logistics for EABO as
discrete aspect of broad
problem to focus research
● Devise potential solutions
○ Strategy vs. Operational
concepts
○ EABO combat logistics,
exquisite resupply at standoff
distance
○ Management strategies, push
operations, software for
logistics
● Get feedback from sponsor &
experts on solution efficacy &
weaknesses
● Iterate solutions
● Determine form of final
deliverable
● Create comprehensive org
charts to map key partners,
stakeholders, and beneficiaries
● Research Resources
○ Books
○ Wargaming Software
(Command)/Games
○ USNWC subscription
○ Janes Defense Group
● Potential Site Visits (contingent on
COVID) to brief final deliverable:
○ Naval Postgraduate School
○ San Diego Naval & USMC Facilities
○ Camp H.M. Smith
○ INDOPACOM
○ ONR Office
○ Congressional Offices / Staff
○ 18th MEDCOM
○ Naval Supply SYSCOM
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the A2/AD
problem set facing the Navy to
create novel operational
concepts / strategies.
● Design CONOPs for existing
ONR Division 331’s R&D
priorities
● Provide a coherent CONOP for
distributed logistics to sustain
distributed lethality
● Cross-pollinate novel solutions
across DoD and external
experts to break down
information silos
● Explore NDAA amendment to
empower beneficiaries
● Identify entit(ies) responsible
for disconnect between
researchers and planners
DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions would be
shared with ONR, INDOPACOM,
PACFLT, 7th Fleet, MARFORPAC,
31st MEU, USMC CD&I, OPNAV
● Initial testing of concepts through
wargaming simulation software &
CAPE validation
● Eventual scaling to maritime training
exercises
● May require funding or statutory
NDAA amendment language

37. MISSION BUDGET/COST
KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
[Sponsor]
KEY RESOURCES
● Large literature review (1000+
pages a week)
● Access to academic & military
experts
● Fresh perspectives on problem
● Google Earth Suite & Open-
Source Research
● Command (software)
● Lightning Press SMARTbooks
MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve U.S. maritime forces’ ability to adapt to PLA A2/AD capabilities and
impose costs by supporting a distributed and survivable logistics network to sustain
the USMC EABO
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts into
National Defense Strategy, and Naval Strategic Documents,
● Inform ONR research agenda and NDAA funding priorities
● Push novel CONOPs through the DoD research, procurement, and planning
ecosystem to accelerate the pace of change toward solution
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 05-11-21 Version: 1.7
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - 31st MEU (LtCol Nak);
3rd MEF (LtGen Clardy); 7th
Fleet (CAPT LeBron);
INDOPACOM (J3 (RADM
LeClair), J5 (Dr.
HjelmfeltMajGen Sklenka), J8);
Secondary - PACFLT (N03: N4,
N8, N9, N04: N3, N5 (Bob Hein),
N53); MARFORPAC (G3/5/7,
G35, G9);
Tertiary - OPNAV (N7, N9
(Michael Stewart)), Joint Staff
(J3, J5, J7); U.S. regional allies
(especially Japan) and partners
(PHL)
Mission/Problem Description:
New Naval Operational Concepts
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing naval
operations planning enterprise,
including PACFLT, INDOPACOM,
OPNAV, MARFORPAC, Joint Staff
etc. to research & devise solution
● Need buy-in from naval research
organizations to identify, fund, and
develop new technologies and
prototype them
● Defense industry’s role in selecting
and expediting programs is integral
● EABO Concept needs support of
JPN and PHL governments
● For CONOPs, need INDOPACOM
J4 to reach the J3, convince
CoCOM to push down and across
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Broad Problem: Understand U.S.
vulnerabilities to A2/AD and cost
imposition response strategies
● Selected logistics for EABO as
discrete aspect of broad
problem to focus research
● Devise potential solutions
○ EABO combat logistics,
exquisite resupply at standoff
distance
○ Management strategies, push
operations, software for
logistics
● Get feedback from sponsor &
experts on solution efficacy &
weaknesses
● Iterate solutions
● Determine form of final
deliverable
● Create comprehensive org
charts to map key partners,
stakeholders, and beneficiaries
● Research Resources
○ Books
○ Wargaming Software
(Command)/Games
○ USNWC subscription
○ Janes Defense Group
● Potential Site Visits (contingent on
COVID) to brief final deliverable:
○ Naval Postgraduate School
○ San Diego Naval & USMC Facilities
○ INDOPACOM
○ ONR Office
○ Congressional Offices / Staff
○ 18th MEDCOM
○ Naval Supply SYSCOM
○ NSWC HQ
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the A2/AD
problem set facing the Navy to
create novel operational
concepts / strategies.
● Provide a coherent CONOP for
distributed logistics to sustain
distributed lethality
● Cross-pollinate novel solutions
across DoD and external
experts to break down
information silos
● Explore NDAA amendment to
empower beneficiaries
● Identify entit(ies) responsible
for disconnect between
researchers and planners
● Serve as a case study for how
CONOPs flow through its
lifetime, from origination to
implementation
DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions would be
shared with ONR, INDOPACOM,
PACFLT, 7th Fleet, MARFORPAC,
31st MEU, USMC CD&I, OPNAV
● Initial testing of concepts through
wargaming simulation software &
CAPE validation
● Eventual scaling to maritime training
exercises
● May require funding or statutory
NDAA amendment language

38. MISSION BUDGET/COST
KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
[Sponsor]
KEY RESOURCES
● Large literature review (1000+
pages a week)
● Access to academic & military
experts
● Fresh perspectives on problem
● Google Earth Suite & Open-
Source Research
● Command (software)
● Lightning Press SMARTbooks
MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve U.S. maritime forces’ ability to adapt to PLA A2/AD capabilities and
impose costs by supporting a distributed and survivable logistics network to sustain
the USMC EABO
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts into
National Defense Strategy, and Naval Strategic Documents,
● Inform ONR research agenda and NDAA funding priorities
● Push novel CONOPs through the DoD research, procurement, and planning
ecosystem to accelerate the pace of change toward solution
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 05-18-21 Version: 1.8
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - 31st MEU (LtCol Nak);
3rd MEF (LtGen Clardy); 7th
Fleet (CAPT LeBron);
INDOPACOM (J3 (RADM
LeClair), J5 (MajGen Sklenka),
J8);
Secondary - PACFLT (N03: N4,
N8, N9, N04: N3, N5 (Bob Hein),
N53); MARFORPAC (G3/4/5/7,
G35, G9);
Tertiary - OPNAV (N7, N9
(Michael Stewart)), Joint Staff
(J3, J5, J7); U.S. regional allies
(especially Japan) and partners
(PHL)
Mission/Problem Description:
New Naval Operational Concepts
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing naval
operations planning enterprise,
including PACFLT, INDOPACOM,
OPNAV, MARFORPAC, Joint Staff
etc. to research & devise solution
● Need buy-in from naval research
organizations to identify, fund, and
develop new technologies and
prototype them
● Defense industry’s role in selecting
and expediting programs is integral
● EABO Concept needs support of
JPN and PHL governments
● For CONOPs, need INDOPACOM
J4 to reach the J3, convince
CoCOM to push down and across
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Broad Problem: Understand U.S.
vulnerabilities to A2/AD and cost
imposition response strategies
● Selected logistics for EABO as
discrete aspect of broad
problem to focus research
● Devise potential solutions
○ EABO combat logistics,
exquisite resupply at standoff
distance
○ Management strategies, push
operations, software for
logistics
● Get feedback from sponsor &
experts on solution efficacy &
weaknesses
● Iterate solutions
● Create comprehensive org
charts to map key partners,
stakeholders, and beneficiaries
● Research Resources
○ Books
○ Wargaming Software
(Command)/Games
○ USNWC subscription
○ Janes Defense Group
● Potential entities to brief final
deliverable:
○ Naval Postgraduate School
○ San Diego Naval & USMC Facilities
○ INDOPACOM
○ ONR Office
○ Congressional Offices / Staff
○ 18th MEDCOM
○ Naval Supply SYSCOM
○ NSWC HQ
○ MARFORPAC/MCWL
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the A2/AD
problem set facing the Navy to
create novel operational
concepts / strategies.
● Provide a coherent CONOP for
distributed logistics to sustain
distributed lethality
● Cross-pollinate novel solutions
across DoD and external
experts to break down
information silos
● Explore NDAA amendment to
empower beneficiaries
● Identify entit(ies) responsible
for disconnect between
researchers and planners
● Serve as a case study for how
CONOPs flow through its
lifetime, from origination to
implementation
DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions would be
shared with ONR, INDOPACOM,
PACFLT, 7th Fleet, MARFORPAC,
31st MEU, USMC CD&I, OPNAV
● Initial testing of concepts through
wargaming simulation software &
CAPE validation
● Eventual scaling to maritime training
exercises
● May require funding or statutory
NDAA amendment language

39. MISSION BUDGET/COST
KEY PARTNERS
● Office of Naval
Research (ONR)
[Sponsor]
KEY RESOURCES
● Large literature review (1000+
pages a week)
● Access to academic & military
experts
● Fresh perspectives on problem
● Google Earth Suite & Open-
Source Research
● Command (software)
● Lightning Press SMARTbooks
MISSION ACHIEVEMENT/IMPACT FACTORS
● Improve U.S. maritime forces’ ability to adapt to PLA A2/AD capabilities and
impose costs by supporting a distributed and survivable logistics network to sustain
the USMC EABO
● Operational Concept Adoption/Incorporation of Operational Concepts into
National Defense Strategy, and Naval Strategic Documents,
● Inform ONR research agenda and NDAA funding priorities
● Push novel CONOPs through the DoD research, procurement, and planning
ecosystem to accelerate the pace of change toward solution
Designed by: Project Agrippa Date: 05-25-21 Version: 1.9
BENEFICIARIES
Primary - 31st MEU (LtCol Nak);
3rd MEF (LtGen Clardy); 7th
Fleet (CAPT LeBron);
INDOPACOM (J3 (RADM
LeClair), J5 (MajGen Sklenka),
J8);
Secondary - PACFLT (N03: N4,
N8, N9, N04: N3, N5 (Bob Hein),
N53); MARFORPAC (G3/4/5/7,
G35, G9);
Tertiary - OPNAV (N7, N9
(Michael Stewart)), Joint Staff
(J3, J5, J7); U.S. regional allies
(especially Japan) and partners
(PHL)
Mission/Problem Description:
New Naval Operational Concepts
BUY-IN & SUPPORT
● Needs support from existing naval
operations planning enterprise,
including PACFLT, INDOPACOM,
OPNAV, MARFORPAC, Joint Staff
etc. to research & devise solution
● Need buy-in from naval research
organizations to identify, fund, and
develop new technologies and
prototype them
● Defense industry’s role in selecting
and expediting programs is integral
● EABO Concept needs support of
JPN and PHL governments
● For CONOPs, need INDOPACOM
J4 to reach the J3, convince
CoCOM to push down and across
KEY ACTIVITIES
● Broad Problem: Understand U.S.
vulnerabilities to A2/AD and cost
imposition response strategies
● Selected logistics for EABO as
discrete aspect of broad
problem to focus research
● Devise potential solutions
○ EABO combat logistics,
exquisite resupply at standoff
distance
○ Management strategies, push
operations, software for
logistics
● Get feedback from sponsor &
experts on solution efficacy &
weaknesses
● Iterate solutions
● Create comprehensive org
charts to map key partners,
stakeholders, and beneficiaries
● Research Resources
○ Books
○ Wargaming Software
(Command)/Games
○ USNWC subscription
○ Janes Defense Group
● Potential entities to brief final
deliverable:
○ Naval Postgraduate School
○ San Diego Naval & USMC Facilities
○ INDOPACOM
○ ONR Office
○ Congressional Offices / Staff
○ 18th MEDCOM
○ Naval Supply SYSCOM
○ NSWC HQ
○ MARFORPAC/MCWL
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
● Synthesis of the many
perspectives of the A2/AD
problem set facing the Navy to
create novel operational
concepts / strategies.
● Provide a coherent CONOP for
distributed logistics to sustain
distributed lethality
● Cross-pollinate novel solutions
across DoD and external
experts to break down
information silos
● Explore NDAA amendment to
empower beneficiaries
● Identify entit(ies) responsible
for disconnect between
researchers and planners
● Serve as a case study for how
CONOPs flow through its
lifetime, from origination to
implementation
DEPLOYMENT
● Findings and suggestions would be
shared with ONR, INDOPACOM,
PACFLT, 7th Fleet, MARFORPAC,
31st MEU, USMC CD&I, OPNAV
● Initial testing of concepts through
wargaming simulation software &
CAPE validation
● Eventual scaling to maritime training
exercises
● May require funding or statutory
NDAA amendment language

40. Appendix 1
Project Agrippa Team

41. UNDISCLOSED LOCATION AND DATE

42. UNDISCLOSED DATE

47. What We’ve Done So Far Where We’re Going Next
Agrippa’s Journey!