Office of Economic Adjustment Town Hall October 6, 2020
Fiscal Year 2020 ➢ 90 grants awarded ➢ 3 programs established and provided assistance – Installation Sustainability, Community Infrastructure, Manufacturing Communities ➢ Transitioned to an unplanned complete virtual environment in March – Situational Telework via Teams 360 ➢ Administrative relief for pandemic-impacted grantees ➢ Engagements with Governors to support industrial base during shutdowns – SECDEF calls ➢ Defense-Wide Review
FY20 Program Obligations (in Millions) $25.0 8% $5.1 12% $172.7 $3.7 $17.2 39% $18.4 41% $49.8 DOWNSIZING INSTALLATION SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY GROWTH COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE MANUFACTURING COMMUNITES SCHOOLS
FY20 Military Installation Sustainability – 36 Awards
Installation Sustainability ➢ Combines Compatible Use and Joint Land Use Study program responses with newly-enacted Installation Resiliency authority ➢ Technical and financial resources for civilian efforts to address man-made (encroachment, structure-based interference)/nature-driven threats to installations (earthquakes, wildfires, flooding) ➢ State and local efforts ➢ Fastest program growth for organization – significant expansion of effort, esp. Navy on resiliency ➢ OPSEC considerations ➢ Competing civilian and government-based modeling ➢ David Kennedy, Program Director (following Margit Myers)
FY20 Industry Resilience – 17 Awards
Industry Resilience ➢ Only Department of Defense source of technical and financial resources for civilian efforts to help strengthen the economic and cyber resiliency of supply chains – advancing warfighting lethality and capabilities ➢ Many returns in value and innovation to the Department from state and local efforts ➢ Relatively constant versus gradual decline – sustainable? ➢ Cyber resiliency – sub-tiers – manufacturing extension clients ➢ Will have to see whether authorities expand, otherwise will likely see a reduction in FY21 ➢ Pandemic impacts not clear ➢ Mike Gilroy, Program Director
FY20 Manufacturing Community Support – 6 awards
Manufacturing Community Support ➢ Developed USD(A&S)-approved competitive $25M program and then executed it in 120 days, including public comment and cross-federal agency/DoD coordination, to deliver consortia-based capabilities supporting our critical industrial base ➢ Used previously-enacted authorization outside of core Section 2391 with FY20 appropriations as a catalyst – initiated from within industry resilience capabilities ➢ Developed consortia across Research and Evaluation and Industrial Base Policy along with NIST and EDA ➢ Proportional drawdown policy ➢ Gauge impacts – Congressional reporting requirement ➢ Interagency collaboration needed – workforce development
FY 20 Community Infrastructure Program – 16 awards
Community Infrastructure Program ➢ Developed SECDEF-approved competitive $50M Defense Community Infrastructure Program and executed it in 135 days, including public comment and cross service coordination , to deliver quality of life investments for military families – SECDEF truly defined effort ➢ Cross-service and OSD review panel ➢ Construction-ready – circumstances drove program construct ➢ Cannot infer need for broader infrastructure support ➢ Proportional drawdowns, local match availability, NEPA
FY20 School Construction - 2 awards
Public Schools on Military Installations
Public Schools on Military Installations ➢ In addition to 2 awards, initiated 7 new projects based on appropriations in FY20 ➢ To date, quality of life benefits to over 19,000 military- affiliated students annually ➢ Enabler of local and state education officials ➢ Virtual meetings and tours ➢ Strong support for continuation although pandemic impacting local resource and capabilities ➢ Sig Csicsery, Acting Program Director
Challenges Ahead ➢ Staffing – filling gaps and catching up with responsibilities ➢ NDAA codification alternatives ➢ Additional appropriations and or authorizations – sound attenuation program ➢ Defense-Wide Review ➢ Other Defense restructuring ➢ Pandemic and situational telework – travel restrictions
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