Defending the Bottom Line: Achieving Mission Success and Resource Defensibility
11:30 AM - 12:45 PMThu
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Speakers
Dustin Smith
Management Consultant
Aminad
Jonathan Selter
Managing Director for Strategy and Client Delivery
The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) manages a complex global infrastructure and a diverse workforce of 22,000 personnel. To effectively deliver critical infrastructure support and ten core mission capabilities to Department of Navy (DoN) and Department of Defense (DoD) clients, NAVFAC relies on a suite of robust and complex enterprise mission support functions. However, similar to many defense organizations, NAVFAC historically lacked a unified approach to align labor requirements with projected workloads. This gap often resulted in diminished stakeholder transparency and an inability to quantify risk trade-offs during the budget allocation process, leaving leaders without the empirical evidence needed to defend resources against fiscal scrutiny. Discover how NAVFAC is transforming workforce planning by integrating the NAVBAT (Navy Budget Allocation Tool), a mission-aligned, data-driven approach, into the PPBE (Planning, Programming, Budget, Execution) framework. This session explores how the NAVBAT empowers leadership to improve accuracy for year-of-execution resourcing decisions. Participants will learn how this framework enables the organization to justify budget submissions, optimize year-of-execution resourcing across the enterprise, and clearly communicate the impact of funding gaps on mission readiness. By quantifying risk and fostering collaboration between Headquarters and field activities, NAVFAC is ensuring that every mission support function is strategically positioned to drive lethality and global shore readiness. Learning Objectives: 1. Attendees will learn how to conduct activity analysis and workforce modeling 2. Attendees will learn the value and use of data automation and analysis and how this approach can improve resource allocation and budget justification. 3. Attendees will learn how to conduct scenario planning and its use and value for risk-based decision-making