Overview of U.S. Fleet Forces Command

1. Overview of U.S. Fleet Forces Command Brief to Tidewater Association of Service Contractors 17 Feb 2010Mr. Mark HoneckerExecutive Director, U.S. Fleet Forces Command Overall document classification is UNCLASSIFIED/FOUO. Other requests for this document shall be referred to: U.S. Fleet Forces Command 1562 Mitscher Ave., Suite 250 Norfolk, Va. 23551-2487 Attn: R. David Crowder, 757-836-6244 This document contains information exempt from mandatory disclosure under the F0IA. Exemption(s) 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(3) and (b)(5) apply. 1

2. Large-Deck Ships Other Navy Afloat Assets Underway: 154 Ships and submarines 52,856 personnel United States Navy Today ESSEX (LHD) B H RICHARD (LHD) IWO JIMA (LHD) BATAAN (LHD) REAGAN (CVN) NIMITZ (CVN) VINSON (CVN) LINCOLN (CVN) EISENHOWER (CVN)

3. Command Missions • Generate Ready Forces for Tasking • Global Force Management (Adjudicating Response to Demand Signal) • Support Combatant Commanders • U.S. Joint Forces Command (Designated Navy Component Commander) • U.S. Northern Command (Designated Navy Supporting Commander) • Standing JFMCC North • Homeland Defense • Defense Support to Civil Authorities • U.S. Strategic Command (Designated Navy Supporting Commander) • CNO Executive Agent • Anti-Terrorism Force Protection (ATFP) • Individual Augmentation (IA) • Sea Basing • Integrate Navy Component Commander Warfighting Requirements for CNO • In close coordination and collaboration with Commander, Pacific Fleet • Fleet Readiness Enterprise

4. USFF Primary Focus Areas Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection • CDR’s Guidance: • Provide forces ready for tasking • Sustain our forces to Expected Service Life • Generate forces in a sustainable model • Maintain standards for how we operate, maintain, inspect, certify, and command our Navy • Provide our people the tools, training, and time needed to prepare them to deploy • Stay within our budget controls Personnel Command and Control Force Generation Specific Focus areas to support Fleet Operation Fleet Sustainment Transitioning New Capabilities to the Fleet

5. What is our likely future? FY08 ($B) Vietnam Gulf War I GWOT ~$450 DoD Resources Underlying Cycle Source: CSBA, June 2007. Based on OMB and DoD data

6. Current/Future Challenges Environment Dynamics Must Dos Ruthlessly prioritize resources Strategic/Operational • High Demand for Maritime Security Missions (e.g. counter-piracy) • Resurgence of Russia, Expanding Influence of China • Relationship w/ Iran & N. Korea • Networks, Intelligence and Cyberspace Challenges • Shifting forces & resources from Iraq to Afghanistan • Growing demand for Ballistic Missile Defense capabilities + Sustain our forces to reach Expected Service Life Operational Demand Limited Resources Evolving Capabilities Evolving Threat Financial • Cost of operations increasing (e.g. fuel costs, manpower) • Rqmt to sustain current platforms • Cost of evoving demand • Impact of recession on defense spending-National priorities + Stay within budget controls Management/Workforce • Workforce Demographic Challenges (diversity, aging) • National Security Personnel System transition • Individual Augmentee Demand (impact on retention and recruiting) • Impact of economy on recruiting/retention + Hold the line on proven standards Political/Cultural + • Environmental Laws (e.g. SONAR Policy, OLF) • Base Realignment and Closure Impacts • Global Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief (Haiti) • Other pressing issues in addition to defense (economy, health care reform, etc..) Maintain Program “wholeness”

7. Key Takeaways • Understand fiscal realities • Share our sense of urgency-no longer business as usual • Collaborate, communicate, coordinate • Continue to innovate-ourfocus is on delivering forces ready-for-tasking and sustaining them “ To meet our challenges will require us to adapt, to innovate, and bring forward new ideas; we must be a learning organization.” - ADM John C. Harvey, JR Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces