Guardians,
This morning I held an all hands session at San Diego which included the Sector and nearby units. The purpose of the visit was to discuss the major changes that are taking place in our mission support organization as modernization progresses. Over the next several weeks we will be discussing different aspects of modernization. The focus of this morning's discussion was small boat and cutter maintenance, recapitalization of our cutter fleet, financial management, and the implications of a likely constrained fiscal environment in the future.
I have had questions recently regarding Coast Guard funding in the context of modernization. It is important to understand that we are building a new mission support structure for our Service that is focused on bi-level maintenance, configuration control, and supply chain management through product lines managed at our logistics and service centers. While resources are always a challenge, the case to change the Coast Guard is clear regardless of the funding level we receive. Whether we are receiving funding increases, maintaining current levels or facing an uncertain future, we need a better mission support organization. Further, the recapitalization of our aging assets is a requirement that is best met through a mission support organization that integrates acquisition of the platform and its life cycle management in a single point of accountability, in this case a Deputy Commandant for Mission Support.
There will a series of posts regarding difference aspects of the changes taking place and some will be guest posts from the field.
More to follow ...
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