Strategic Homeport was a plan developed by the then Secretary of the Navy John Lehman for building new naval bases for the U.S. Navy. It was proposed as part of the 600-ship Navy plan of the Reagan Administration. It called for the construction of new ports for existing and newly commissioned ships. The plan was based on five strategic principles: The program was devised in part to achieve a political goal: to build support for the naval expansion program though the promise of new naval bases. The program enjoyed broad support both in Congress and in the Reagan Administration.[citation needed]