NAVSUP Aligns with Warfare and Provider Enterprises
By NAVSUPHQ Office of Corporate Communications
The Naval Supply Systems Command is working to engage with Warfare and Provider Enterprises and other providers on a routine basis to validate customer requirements and to ensure NAVSUP offers maximum value to these customers.
"One of my top priorities when I assumed command was to improve NAVSUP’s relationships with our stakeholders. NAVSUP exists to provide combat capability through logistics, and we are committed to working closely with our stakeholders to better understand and meet their needs,” said RADM Alan Thompson, Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command.
"In order to better meet the needs of our customers I have decided to restructure the Assistant Chief of Staff (ACOS) functions along Warfare/Provider Enterprise lines. To reflect the leadership role of these assignments, I am renaming them Assistant Commanders or ACOMs,” he added. The ACOMs will be the primary senior leadership interface with the Warfare and Provider Enterprises and will represent NAVSUP on the Enterprises’ Boards of Directors.
The ACOMs will coordinate efforts across NAVSUP and will serve as advocates for their stakeholders to the rest of the NAVSUP Enterprise. The ACOM approach represents a behavioral model and does not imply any command and control changes to our organizational structure.
NAVSUP Flag and SES members who have been designated NAVSUP Assistant Commanders are:
• RADM Mike Roesner, Commander, Naval Inventory Control Point, ACOM for Naval Aviation Enterprise Support
• Sandy Leggieri, Vice Commander, Naval Inventory Control Point, ACOM for Surface Warfare Enterprise Support and ACOM for Undersea Enterprise Support
• RDML Ray Berube, Commander, Fleet and Industrial Supply Centers, ACOM for Navy Expeditionary Combat Enterprise Support
• Karen Gadbois, NAVSUP Chief Information Officer, ACOM for Naval NETWAR/Forcenet Enterprise Support • Joe Kenney, NAVSUP Deputy Commander, Corporate Operations, ACOM for Provider Enterprise Support
• RDML Rob Bianchi, Commander, Navy Exchange Service Command, ACOM for Navy Family Support.
“The ACOM approach will help us better align with and support the overall Navy Enterprise and its key stakeholders,” RADM Thompson concluded.
Navy Embarks on a Warehousing and Storage GSIP
By COMFISCS Office of Corporate Communications
The Navy has embarked on an ambitious global shore infrastructure plan (GSIP) footprint reduction initiative in support of the CNO’s target of a 30 million square foot reduction by 2013. The Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP), working in partnership with Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) and Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), will lead an effort to deliver a significant piece of that infrastructure savings in the area of warehousing and storage facilities.
A senior-level stakeholder meeting was held recently at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., to kickoff this important cost-saving initiative. The warehouse and storage GSIP will cut laterally across all Navy Enterprises and enabling activities to capture and assess the Navy’s warehouse and storage requirements.
"The ultimate objective will be to both drive down our warehouse and storage footprint and develop a comprehensive, corporate warehouse and storage facilities strategy, which delivers a more effective return on our warehouse and storage investment dollars for the future, said RDML Ray Berube, Commander, Fleet and Industrial Supply Centers (COMFISCS) and the NAVSUP lead for the GSIP initiative.
Three major elements to this initiative will require stakeholder involvement. “The first thing we need to do is ensure we have a good snapshot of the current warehouse and storage profile,” said COMFISCS GSIP Program Manager, CDR Brian Weiss.
"This will be done by looking at current stakeholder storage requirements and assessing the characteristics and condition of their warehouse and storage facilities. “The second required action will be more complex and will involve each stakeholder pressurizing their individual storage requirement to ensure it can pass the good business practice test, a critical factor in determining our success in terms of footprint reduction,” he said.
Key tenets involved with this second element include ensuring the cost of holding material is incorporated into the stakeholder decision process to store material, and that stakeholder decision criteria also allow for an appropriate level of risk in any requirements analysis.
Once current facilities profiles and core current and future storage requirements are identified, work can begin on the third element of the warehouse and storage GSIP, to generate facility strategy and investment plans.
“We expect this GSIP initiative to yield a plan, which not only reduces our infrastructure footprint, but that also transitions into more modern, better maintained facilities,” said Berube.
CHRIMP Comes to Bahrain
By Mary T. Terry, FISC Sigonella Regional HAZMAT Director for Commander, Navy Region Europe and Commander, Navy Region Southwest Asia
In June, a Fleet and Industrial Supply Centers (COMFISCS) CHRIMP Implementation Team visited Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain to kick-start CHRIMP by providing hazardous material (HAZMAT) support services to the largest volume users in Bahrain—the aviation units forward deployed from Atsugi, Japan and the minesweepers forward deployed from Ingleside, Texas.
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MN3 Michael Venegas and SK2 Kenya Cleggett inventory HAZMAT aboard USS Gladiator (MCM 11). |
The COMFISCS team, consisting of LT Carrie Kimball, LT Alisha Baugh, LTJG Ben Nichols, Ernesto Cruz, Armando Caalim, James Edwards and Eric Schlkins, spent four weeks in Bahrain assisting Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (FISC) Sigonella Site Bahrain to prepare HM-15, HSL-26, Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD), USS Gladiator (MCM 11), USS Dextrous (MCM 13), USS Ardent (MCM 12), and USS Scout (MCM 8) to utilize services of the newly established Hazardous Minimization (HAZMIN) Center.
LTJG Nichols, FISC Sigonella’s HAZMAT division officer in Bahrain, and his storekeepers worked hard for several months prior to the CHRIMP team’s arrival preparing office space, storage facilities, and identifying the first work center customers for CHRIMP at Bahrain.
"Establishment of the HAZMIN Center in Bahrain is certainly a big plus for us here in the 5th Fleet AOR [area of responsibility],” said ENS Vic Cabali, officer-in-charge of Aviation Support Division Bahrain and Qatar. “This initiative will increase our fleet readiness, save us operating dollars, and reduce shipping time for our customers. We MN3 Michael Venegas and SK2 Kenya Cleggett inventory HAZMAT aboard USS Gladiator (MCM 11). are eager to be among the first HAZMIN Center customers.”
HAZMIN centers all over the Mediterranean supported the stand-up by redistributing excess, high demand HAZMAT items to Bahrain. In the initial outfitting of inventory to support the aviation units, more than 30 of the top 40 demand line items were available in theatre and in excess quantities. The material redistributed from the other FISC Sigonella HAZMIN centers, valued at more than 50 percent of the initial outfitting cost, began arriving on station less than 10 days after requesting it.
"Redistributing this material helped us move out [HAZMAT] we no longer needed because of units shifting from our installation,” said Raffaello Bottino of FISC Sigonella Site Naples’ HAZMIN Center. “The Navy avoids costs to process the material as hazardous waste, and Bahrain customers can use the material without having to buy new, or wait long transit times from the states or Japan.”
FISC Sigonella Site Bahrain now manages HAZMAT inventory to support the operational and deployed units assigned to NSA Bahrain; deployed units no longer have to depend on their home base command to order and ship material they need.
Supporting ships is a “non-traditional” HAZMIN center service but, in the case of the minesweepers, it brings many benefits. “The minesweepers are so small, they don’t run HICSWIN [Hazardous Inventory Control System Windows] on board, there isn’t much room on the ship to store HAZMAT, and the crews deploy and rotate every four months,” said Nichols. “Keeping up with the ordering, storing and inventory with this OPTEMPO [operational tempo] can be a challenging job. Moving some of this workload off the ship is an example of FISC Sigonella supporting the war fighter with seamless integrated logistics support.”
Many of the maintenance actions requiring HAZMAT are emergent work, which must be accomplished without delay; waiting for material to transit the Atlantic Ocean is not an option. “We are extremely pleased with the FISC Sigonella efforts to support the minesweepers with their HAZMAT requirements in Bahrain,” said CDR Paul Harvey, officer-in-charge of MCM Maintenance Detachment Bahrain. “It really has been a team effort to get started. The material management expertise FISC Sigonella brings to the waterfront helps our crews focus on completing their mission.”
A plan of action and milestones are being drafted to continue the implementation process with the remaining tenants of NSA Bahrain. "A civilian HAZMIN Center manager will report to FISC Sigonella Site Bahrain later this summer to help continue the work the HAZMAT Division and the COMFISCS team started,” Nichols said. “This position will help maintain continuity as military personnel finish their deployments in Bahrain and new personnel report aboard.”
NAVICP Hosts Fourth Nuclear Symposium
By Judith Patno, Contracting Officer, NAVICP Nuclear Contracting Office
Naval Inventory Control Point’s (NAVICP) Nuclear Reactors Supply Chain Management Directorate hosted its Fourth Nuclear Symposium recently in Mechanicsburg, Pa. The symposium is designed to educate contractors on changes that have occurred in the contracting arena, and to respond to questions on how NAVICP conducts business. Over one hundred people representing 61 different companies from across the country participated in the two-day conference.
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Guest Speaker Sandra Leggieri, Vice Commander, Naval Inventory Control Point, addresses participants attending the Fourth Nuclear Symposium hosted by NAVICP in Mechanicsburg, Pa. |
NAVICP has been hosting the symposium in Mechanicsburg every two years since 2000. Prior to 2000, the Nuclear Symposium was held in Pittsburgh for local area contractors only. It was determined that all the contractors that the Nuclear Reactors SCM Directorate deals with would benefit from this symposium and in 2000 it was expanded to include contractors country-wide. “It’s a good way to get information to the contractors in a quick manner,” stated Bob Taylor, Department Head, Material Management Department, Nuclear Reactors SCM Directorate.
Sandra Leggieri, NAVICP’s Vice Commander, provided opening remarks to kick off the two-day symposium. CAPT Steven Malloy, NAVICP Directorate Head for Engineering & Product Support, was the featured lunchtime speaker. Throughout the symposium, speakers from other NAVICP directorates, Defense Contract Management Agency, Naval Sea Logistics Center, and the Small Business Administration spoke on myriad of topics.
Topics addressed during the symposium included Radio Frequency Identification tags, what the small business office can do for the contractors, Wide Area Workflow, technical support, Nuclear Reactors SCM Directorate e-Commerce website, how Lean Six Sigma improved the review time of the reports of test and inspection, and the new Past Performance Information Retrieval System.