Standing fleet

A standing fleet is a group of starship vessels, a fleet unit that occupy patrols and defense for a sector or a group of sectors. In the Federation's Starfleet, a number of standing fleets are deployed to key sectors around the founding planets and other Federation members' homeworlds and colony worlds. 

Starfleet's standing fleets

 * Starfleet 3rd Fleet
 * Starfleet 5th Fleet
 * Starfleet 7th Fleet
 * Starfleet 22nd Fleet