Making a More Coordinated Business of NAVAIR
“Within our system command we have a tremendous amount of information that has to flow back and forth. Whether it is hiring people, whether it is comptroller action or contractor action, each one of these different disciplines within our business has been brought up individually. They have not been brought up in coordination with each other,” VADM David Dunaway, Commander, NAVAIR says in the video below.
That came as no surprise to an audience that included regional leaders in the defense contracting industry. An outtake video of his description of how this final element of gaining efficiency and spreading dollars farther is below. “We’re going to take a real hard pull on trying to make our business systems connect,” he says.
Consolidation and improved communications is the third cost-cutting efficiency VADM Dunaway describes in a succinct presentation of NAVAIR budgeting strategies for the immediate and near future. This final goal seeks savings in efficiencies through more unified and apparent NAVAIR procedures and administrative processes.
The other two strategies are:
Attrition at Pax River will more than meet government’s declining personal needs, he says, expressing the Navy’s ongoing support of STEM education efforts and NAS:Patuxent River’s continued need for STEM-inclined journeymen talent.
Reallocation, which he discusses in the video below, has the potential to create the greatest impact on the private defense industry. Tasks better done by the government will be brought back in-house, he says, and gives examples, including the presidential helicopter, where a different allocation of work would have kept the projects on track and completed. Those jobs done best in the private sector will remain there, he says.
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