CHARLESTON SAME BRIEF Les Dixon, PE, Director of Programs, South Atlantic Division

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CHARLESTON SAME BRIEFLes Dixon, PE, Director of
Programs, South Atlantic Division
SAD Goals

• Readiness Support to combat, stability, disaster
  response
• Water resources Deliver enduring water resource
  solutions
• Military Program Deliver innovative, sustainable
  solutions to armed forces
• Technical competence Build and cultivate a
  competent, disciplined team

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Goal 1 Support to Overseas Contingencies

• ACCEPT RISK IN CONUS PROGRAM, NOT IN THE WAR
• CDRS COMMITTED TO THIS CRITICAL MISSION
• SHIFT FROM IRAQ TO AFGHANISTAN
• BUILDS DEPTH/DIVERSITY IN OUR WORKFORCE
• SAD OCO SUPPORT SNAPSHOT
• 275 Civilians deployed over the last 5 years
• Current Deployments Iraq - 50,
• Afghanistan - 38, Total - 88
• (2.5 of workforce)
• FEST TEAMS activating/CREST/ENVST support
• USACE AGGRESSIVELY building critical family
• support systems

Supporting Overseas Missions While Executing
Massive Missions at Home
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Goal 1 Readiness (Natural Disasters)

• USACE Planning and Response Teams
• Dedicated and highly proficient teams
• Greatly expanded Division/District planning
  efforts (pre-event)
• Excellent relationships with FEMA/State agencies
• Planning and Response Teams
• Jacksonville Temporary Roofing
• Charleston Ice
• Mobile Debris
• Wilmington Commodities
• Savannah Emergency Power,
• Temporary Housing
• HQ-UOC Reachback Center,
• USACE Readiness Support Center
• (co-located with Mobile District)

143 Teams Nationwide 1500 Civilian Volunteers
Building an all-encompassing regional contingency
force
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Goal 1 Interagency (CONUS) International
(OCONUS) Support (IIS)

• Strategic Alignment of USACE DIVISION to
  GEOGRAPHICAL COCOM
• NEW RELATIONSHIP OF TRANSATLANTIC DIVISION TO
  CENTCOM
• NAD, SAD, POD, NWD, TAD have COCOM assignments
• SAD IIS SUPPORT SNAPSHOT TO SOUTHCOM
• Southern Command
• Soto Cano (Army/Air Force)
• SUPPORT TO HOST NATIONS
• Ambassadors
• U.S. Military GroupsOther U.S. Agencies (USAID)
• Counter Drug Programs
• (U.S. State Dept.)
• Humanitarian Organizations
• Brazil (Host nation agreement)

Executing 49 M in FY09. Working on more than 100
projects in 14 countries
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Goal 2 Civil Works Program Trends

• DIVISION CDR THEMES
• Adjustment to New Administration
• All CDRs looking for a more STREAMLINED
  approach
• ASA office requesting CHANGE in PROCESSES
• Teams working hard for Chiefs reports by DEC
  2010

(2004 Hurricane Reimbursement - 1B)
Note Numbers do not include ARRA funds.
Planning process Under review for improvement
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Goal 2 Adaptive Water Management

• Demand for WATER SUPPLY
• will continue to EXPAND nationally
• Need for COLLABORATION
• absolutely CRITICAL
• Costs/Benefits must reflect
• environmental values
• SAD ACTIONS
• SE drought ended after 3 years
• Legal decisions rendered/pending
• States must resolve challenge
• USACE stays committed to ASSIST

Water - the key resource for the nations future
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Goal 2 Representative Civil Works Projects

• Everglades
• 12.5 billion over 20 years
• Master Agreement signed
• Post-Panamax Harbor Deepening
• Intense competition among deep-draft ports
• Synchronization of National Plan/Economics
• Mississippi Coastal Improvement
• 1.1 billion over 10 years
• Large scale buyout of coastal areas

Environment and infrastructure hand in hand
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Goal 3 Military Program Trends

• Massive BRAC program SPIKE main effort
• USACE completing 1.6B in DoD ARRA projects
• Tailored solutions for deployed and relocating
  units
• Disciplined flexibility in manning with eye to
  2012

Note Numbers do not include ARRA funds.
Workload currently at peak must have exit
strategy
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Goal 3 MILCON Program

• FY 09 MILCON BRAC (103 projects at 3.5B)
• Critical to success of Grow the Army
• Provides strategic stationing flexibility
• BRAC Construction (53 projects now to SEP 2011 at
  1.8B)
• Eglin, Stewart, Benning, Bragg, Jackson
• 4 Four-star HQs valued at 781 M
• ENVIRONMENTAL (640 projects at 62M)
• SAD is cleaning up 4 of the nations top 10
  Former Defense sites
• SAD executes all Army BRAC NEPA
• NEW USACE INITIATIVES WORKING IN SAD
• MILCON Transformation
• Design/Build Standardization
• Environmental Sustainability (LEED)

Transforming military design and construction for
better troop facilities
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Goals 2/3 ARRA Program (Civil Work/Military)

• FOCUS in on TIMELY execution JOBS and the
  ECONOMY
• Divest NON-SHOVEL READY/ challenged projects
  early
• TEAM is executing IN STRIDE while continuing all
  other missions
• Civil Works - 704M
• 416M OM,
• 286M Construction
• 1.9M to Investigation
• Military - 320M
• Major Construction - 43M
• Facility Sustainment, Restoration Modernization
  109M
• Tricare Management Activity - 168M

Putting people to work
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
190 Planned Project Milestones
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All Goals Invest and Champion Innovation

• Technology
• Building Information Management (BIM)
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
• Avatar (Regulatory)
• Navigation Information Database
• Construction innovation (Portugues Dam)
• Process
• Standardization
• Instituting new safety measures (VPP)
• Expand CW Lease for Services
• Innovative Acquisition Techniques (ECI)

Imagination and discipline
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SUMMARY / DISCUSSION

• Civil Works Program Stable and Balanced
• Adaptive Water Management is Critical
• MILCON execution methods continue to evolve
• MILCON 2 more years of high execution then
  return to normalcy

USACE and SAD Good, no - VERY GOOD today... on
the way to GREAT TOMORROW!!
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South Atlantic Division Boundaries (Civil Works)
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South Atlantic Division Boundaries(Military
Construction)