Appendix F 
ABRIDGED ACCOUNT OF EVENTS RELATING TO THE JOINT NCEL/NSA 
FEASIBILITY STUDY OF A MODULARIZED OCEAN BASING SYSTEM 
by 
John F. Peel Brahtz, Ph.D. 
The earlier contributions to Mobile Ocean Basing Systems (MOBS)* of 
the past 20 years have come primarily from such activities as University 
of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Naval Civil Engi- 
neering Laboratory (NCEL), and a few other isolated groups. NCEL Tech- 
nical Note, N-1144: Mobile Ocean Basing Systems - A Concrete Concept, 
dated January 1971 and authored by J.J. Hromadik, Duane Davis, D.F. 
Griffin, W.R. Lorman, M.J. Wolfe and H.S. Zwibel offers the most compre- 
hensive insight to the earlier state of the art. 
The following items offer a profile of significant MOBS-related 
activity during the recent past at various agencies of government, 
industry, and academe. 
@ The Naval War College at Providence, Rhode Island, at the direc- 
tion of the Chief of Naval Operations, completed a 1988 study, OVERSEAS 
BASING: THE IMPACT OF CHANGE. The Naval War College study provides a 
partial, however, significant premise for the Modularized Ocean Basing 
System study by NCEL/NSA(NPS). Admiral C.A.H. Trost, USN, Chief of Naval 
*Note: Early usage (1971-1988) of the acronym "MOBS" by NCEL, designated 
"Mobile Ocean Basing System". Current usage of the same acronym, as in 
the present NCEL/NSA study, designates "Modularized Ocean Basing System" 
or "MOBS, Circa 2000". 
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