1. NAOC Annual Membership Meeting Partnering Update November 2013

2. 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)

3. 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

4. Partnering Update 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

5. Partnering Update Advanced Classification – Both Government and industry agreed to keep forward momentum on using advanced classification systems.

6. Partnering Update 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

7. Partnering Update Follow-on meeting: – Identify topic(s) – Tentatively scheduled in conjunction with Spring 2014 Fly-in

8. Partnering Update 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