NAOC Annual Membership MeetingPartnering Update

November 2013

Partnering Update

• Met on March 7, 2013 in Washington, DC• 41 participants in person or via telecon• 13 DoD representatives (Navy, HQ USACE,

USACE Districts, AFCEC, HDQA ACSIM, ESTCP/SERDP)

Partnering Update

Anomaly density and risk of performing work under FFP mechanism at uncharacterized sites:– Move towards cost reimbursable contracts where

scope/risk is not well defined– Acknowledgement that IRP model (RI – RC) may not

be best suited for FUDS/MMRP– Use of FUP to account for variables in site

conditions

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Advantages of access to background documents, preliminary SOWs, and project lists:– Discussed opportunities to provide documents

online, e.g., Google-based database, links to Administrative Records

– Still concern about quality of available data

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Advanced Classification – Both Government and industry agreed to keep

forward momentum on using advanced classification systems.

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Additional notes:– Munitions Response Dialog is being reactivated– USACE is looking into opportunities to facilitate

debriefs for awards less than $5M– Improvements in consistency with

implementation of the UFP-QAPP for MEC

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Follow-on meeting:– Identify topic(s)– Tentatively scheduled in conjunction with Spring

2014 Fly-in

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Article for publication:– Article proposal was submitted to The Military

Engineer in May– The proposal was accepted and the article was

submitted in September, for publication in the January – February 2014 edition