Recapitalizing the Navy A Strategy for Managing the Infrastructure (1998) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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Implementation depends on the fundamentals of military power: quality people, ready forces, and superior organization, doctrine, and technology. The challenge is to construct an effective defense establishment with limited financial resources in accordance with Department of Defense guidance.2 3 The U.S.
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Shore Installation Management Division (OPNAV-N46) is the CNO's lead office for Navy shore installation programs.4 Its primary responsibilities include installation operations; base operating support; quality-of-life mission support; infrastructure vision, strategic planning, plans, and policy; housing; and the Navy's Smart Base project.
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With respect to the U.S. Navy, where all forces floats or fly, the shore establishment in the broadest sense is synonymous with infrastructure, whichaccording to the Joint Chiefs of Staff includes "all activities that provide support or control of forces from fixed bases of operations."7 In accordance with this broader perspective of the Navy shore establishment, the committee assesses below the size of the basic problem driving the Navy's desire to reduce infrastructure costs and reexamines the potential base from which infrastructure cost reductions could be obtained.
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As defined by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) , infrastructure comprises the following functional categories: acquisition, central logistics, central personnel, communications, force management, installations, medical functions, quality of life, science 9Lopez, VADM Thomas J., USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Resources Warefare Requirements and Assessments (N8)
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and technology, and trainings Because the N4 is one of the more proactive staff elements sponsoring programs specifically with the aim of infrastructure cost reduction, the committee focused its attention on those functional categories most closely associated with the N4, namely, installations (less base closure) , central logistics, quality of life (which is largely family housing)
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Although a forcing function is desirable, it is also necessary to have an overall, integrated strategic plan, which appears to be lacking, that includes metrics that measure the output of the infrastructure. Without such a plan and metrics, it will not be possible to determine where additional savings can be obtained with acceptable risk or where potential budget reductions would create unacceptable risks and reductions in fleet capabilities and readiness.
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The committee was briefed on U.S. Navy training activities after making a specific request to obtain information on training-related initiatives designed to reduce infrastructure costs, but it failed to find any cost reduction initiatives comparable to those being developed and supported in the installation management area.
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