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U.S. Navy Region Southeast Navy Resiliency Priorities & Challenges

SERPPAS & Sea Grant Collaborating Towards Coastal Resilience In The Southeast 27 August 2019

Presented by: Mr. W. Brock Durig, Navy REC / Fleet Operational Support

Overall Classification of this brief is UNCLASSIFIED

ENGAGE ENABLE SUSTAIN CNRSE Area of Responsibility UNCLASSIFIED

CNRSE is Navy REC for CNRSE AOR City N.C. and K.Y., but not the Installations Navy Regional Commander NOSCs St Louis - 18 Installations Springfield - 39 NOSCs Wichita - 6 Installations Knoxville with Ports Nashville Tulsa Chattanooga - 11 Air Stations NSA Mid South - 20 OLFs Little Rock Greenville Amarillo Memphis Columbia City Atlanta Augusta Top Tenants NSA Charleston Bessemer Charleston NSF Beaufort - CNATRA NAS Meridian - NETC Columbus NSB Kings Bay NAS JRB Fort Worth Shreveport - JTF GTMO FT Worth Meridian NAVSTA - FRC-SE El Paso NAS Whiting Field Tallahassee NAS Jacksonville CBC Waco Jacksonville CNRSE HQ Gulfport Gulfp Pensacola ort Region with most: Austin NSA Orlando NAS JRB New Orleans NAS Pensacola NSA Panama Orlando - San Antonio Houston City Installations Tampa FL - Ports NAS Corpus Christi West Palm Beach - Air Stations Corpus Christi NAS Kingsville Miami NAS

Facts: Harlingen - FY18 Obligations: $1.5B - # CNIC Personnel: 10,786 (Includes Military, Civilian, NAVSTA Guantanamo Bay NAF & Contractor)

Puerto Rico

ENGAGE ENABLE SUSTAIN 2 UNCLASSIFIED Navy Trains in the Southeast

• Primary Training Location for East Coast Operational Units. Deployment Certification location for all East Coast Carrier Strike Groups.

• The majority of Naval Aviation school house training is conducted within Southeastern Air Space. Primary Users : USFF (Surface, Sub, Air), Naval Air • Systems Command Training Command, Navy Special Warfare, Systems Testing Areas Commands (Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Aviation Command).

ENGAGE ENABLE SUSTAIN 3 UNCLASSIFIED Navy Priorities/Challenges in the Southeast

. The number of coastal installations within Southeast and Gulf of Mexico region.  Primarily an aviation focused region but requires blue water training access.  Only east coast Ballistic Missile Submarine Base.  3rd Largest CONUS Fleet Concentration area (Mayport/Jax/Kings Bay)  The Navy trains in the southeast. All east coast Carrier Strike Groups are certified for deployment in Southeast Operations Areas & Ranges. . The Navy working toward a 300-350 Ship Navy  Requires sustainable ports, infrastructure, facilities, and ranges.  Requires ship repair industry grow and sustainability of existing facilities and dry-docks.  Will increase demand and training pipeline of aviators and aircraft (manned and unmanned).

ENGAGE ENABLE SUSTAIN 4 UNCLASSIFIED Navy Priorities/Challenges in the Southeast

. Due to hurricane seasons and the additional steaming time (fuel) the Navy does not conduct large scale Fleet exercises in the GOMEX. Therefore the focus for surface training and combined actions are on the east coast.

. Primary concerns are with the increase in severe weather events that have dramatically impacted Navy installations in the last few years  Hurricanes, Storm Surge, Erosion, extreme tides, etc.

. Planning and Actions being taken/considered.  Inspector General reports now include evaluation wrt to resiliency/sustainability of port facilities, etc.  Integrated Natural Resource Plans (INRMP’s) now required to incorporate resiliency/sustainability concepts in plans and associated projects.  Regional and local partnerships to increase resiliency geographically.

ENGAGE ENABLE SUSTAIN 5 UNCLASSIFIED NAS Key West

ENGAGE ENABLE SUSTAIN 6 UNCLASSIFIED NS Mayport

ENGAGE ENABLE SUSTAIN 7 UNCLASSIFIED NSA Panama City / NSGB

ENGAGE ENABLE SUSTAIN 8 UNCLASSIFIED

Questions or Comments?

Contact Information

W. Brock Durig, CNRSE Regional Coordination / Operational Support [email protected], (904) 542-6966, DSN 942

ENGAGE ENABLE SUSTAIN 9 UNCLASSIFIED Organizational Chain of Command

SECNAV (SUPPORTING)

CNO CMC

FLEET SYSTEMS CNIC HQ COMMANDS Global COMMANDS Theater

TYPE/GROUP WARFARE COMMANDS Regional CENTERS Region CDR Installation Installation TEST CENTERS SQUADRONS / Installation UNITS CO Environmental Staff at CNRSE and the Installations are NAVFAC SE Billets ENGAGE ENABLE SUSTAIN