Navy Co-Sponsors

NAVAIR provides total life cycle support of all naval aviation weapon systems including research, design, development, and engineering; acquisition; test and evaluation; training facilities and equipment; repair and modification; and in-service engineering and logistics support. NAVAIR's annual business volume is approximately $20 billion.

NAVAIR Weapons Division joins two Navy facilities located at China Lake, CA and Point Mugu, CA. It has many of DOD's special laboratories and unique facilities for research, development, and evaluation of weapons, guided missiles, and aircraft weapons systems. It also contains a large, highly instrumentation complex of air, land, and sea ranges and test facilities. NAVAIR Weapons Division's annual business volume is approximately $450 million. To learn more about this co-sponsor go to http://www.navair.navy.mil.

SPAWAR's mission is to provide the warfighter with knowledge superiority by developing, delivering, and maintaining effective, capable and integrated command, control, communications, computer, intelligence and surveillance systems. SPAWAR provides information technology and space systems for today's Navy and Defense Department activities while planning and designing for the future. SPAWAR's annual business volume is $5.8 billion. To learn more about this co-sponsor go to http://enterprise.spawar.navy.mil.

Fleet and Industrial Supply Center San Diego provides logistics, business and support services to fleet, shore and industrial commands of the Navy, Coast Guard, Military Sealift Command, and other Joint and Allied Forces. FISC San Diego delivers combat capability through logistics by teaming with regional partners and customers to provide supply chain management, procurement, contracting and transportation services, technical and customer support, defense fuel products and worldwide movement of personal property. NAVSUP's annual business volume is $ 6 billion. FISC San Diego's annual business volume is approximately $347 million.

The Fleet and Industrial Supply Centers located in San Diego, Calif; Norfolk, VA; Jacksonville, Fla.; Yokosuka, Japan; Sigonella, Italy; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; and Bremerton (Puget Sound), Wash., provide logistics, business and support services to fleet, shore and industrial commands of the Navy, Coast Guard, and other Joint and Allied Forces. The Supply Centers deliver combat capability through logistics by teaming with regional partners and customers to provide material management, contracting, transportation and consolidated mail service, technical and customer support, defense fuel products, worldwide movement of personal property, and other logistics services.

The Commander, Fleet and Industrial Supply Centers (COMFISCS) is responsible for directing the waterfront support segment of the Naval Supply Systems Command strategic plan, managing FISC performance, overseeing field contracting operations through the Lead Contract Executive (LCE), and allocating assigned supply system program management responsibilities and facilitating best business practice and efficiencies across the seven FISCs.

COMFISCS comprises more than 4,000 military and civilian logistics professionals, operating as a single cohesive team, and providing logistics services from more than 60 locations worldwide. A component of NAVSUP, headquartered in Mechanicsburg, PA., COMFISCS is part of a worldwide logistics network of more than 24,000 military and civilian personnel providing “One-Touch Supply.”

To learn more about this co-sponsor go to http://www.navsup.navy.mil/.

The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) manages the planning, design and construction of shore facilities for U.S. Navy activities around the world and provides the Navy's forces with operating, support and training bases. It is a global organization with an annual volume of business in excess of $8 billion. In addition, NAVFAC provides technical support and management oversight for nine public works centers, and provides program management for all aspects of the Naval Construction Force, the Seabees, and equipment/materiel management for the Naval Beach Group and other Naval Special Operating Units. Naval Facilities Institute, Port Hueneme, CA, a major component of NAVFAC, is the host and co-sponsor of this year's conference. To learn more about this co-sponsor go to https://portal.navfac.navy.mil.

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) engineers, builds and supports America's Fleet of ships and combat systems and accounts for nearly one-fifth of the Navy's budget (approximately $20 billion), NAVSEA manages more than 130 acquisition programs. Naval Surface Warfare Center is a division of NAVSEA. To learn more about this co-sponsor go to http://www.phdnswc.navy.mil.