WEBVTT 00:00.087 --> 00:03.087 (slow casual music) 00:06.347 --> 00:11.347 - Okay, I was asked to give a response on the AFCAP. 00:11.900 --> 00:13.740 I think most of the people in this room 00:13.740 --> 00:16.030 have probably touched or seen AFCAP 00:16.890 --> 00:20.270 at some point along in their career. 00:20.270 --> 00:24.650 AFCAP is the Air Force's Contract Augmentation Program 00:24.650 --> 00:27.740 that supports all the different types of contingencies 00:27.740 --> 00:29.283 for the Air Force. 00:31.470 --> 00:33.960 AFCAP right before the storm. 00:33.960 --> 00:37.163 By the way, I lost a video on here. 00:38.220 --> 00:40.313 Has anyone ever heard of Mike Seidel, 00:41.720 --> 00:43.580 from the Weather Channel? 00:43.580 --> 00:44.440 Right? 00:44.440 --> 00:47.113 Okay, I think this means something. 00:48.250 --> 00:51.400 About three weeks before Hurricane Michael, 00:51.400 --> 00:53.260 there was Hurricane Florence 00:53.260 --> 00:55.810 up in North Carolina, right? 00:55.810 --> 00:58.170 And during Hurricane Florence, 00:58.170 --> 01:01.690 Mike Seidel was like this, 01:01.690 --> 01:06.493 oh the wind is terrible, oh there's debris. 01:07.810 --> 01:10.260 I don't know how much longer I can stay out here. 01:11.110 --> 01:13.953 And then behind him, there's people walking. 01:17.872 --> 01:20.380 They were just walking like this. 01:20.380 --> 01:22.813 So, he got fired. 01:25.530 --> 01:26.363 'Cause, think about it, 01:26.363 --> 01:27.780 I've lived in Panama City, Florida 01:27.780 --> 01:28.613 for a long time. 01:28.613 --> 01:30.080 Every time we had a tropical storm 01:30.080 --> 01:32.850 The Weather Channel built it up so big. 01:32.850 --> 01:35.120 I'd get, a lot of people in this room 01:35.120 --> 01:36.450 would text me, email me, 01:36.450 --> 01:37.710 Jim are you okay? 01:37.710 --> 01:40.020 Are you getting ready for that tropical storm? 01:40.020 --> 01:42.180 My family all over the country, 01:42.180 --> 01:44.263 Jim how's your house? 01:45.560 --> 01:49.380 It was a Category One tropical storm, it was nothing. 01:49.380 --> 01:52.440 It was like, we've had thunderstorms worse. 01:52.440 --> 01:54.910 Alright, so, here comes Hurricane Michael. 01:54.910 --> 01:59.830 Ah, it might be a one, might be a two. 01:59.830 --> 02:01.300 What do you do if it's a three? 02:01.300 --> 02:04.260 Ya know, my wife Debbie and I, well I have. 02:04.260 --> 02:05.510 We've gone through threes before. 02:05.510 --> 02:06.820 It's no big deal. 02:06.820 --> 02:08.403 We woke up Wednesday morning, 02:09.410 --> 02:10.243 uh, oh. 02:11.180 --> 02:12.360 Alright. 02:12.360 --> 02:15.633 So, some of the lessons learned, 02:15.633 --> 02:17.580 like Fletch mentioned 02:18.760 --> 02:22.490 we should've been better prepared in certain areas. 02:22.490 --> 02:25.923 But, I am very proud of the support that AFCAP provided. 02:27.640 --> 02:30.840 Alright, so most of our folks evacuated the day before. 02:30.840 --> 02:33.080 Some people like to evacuate before a storm 02:33.080 --> 02:34.863 I like to evacuate after. 02:38.090 --> 02:39.133 Not fun. 02:40.950 --> 02:44.290 I left, coincidentally, I stayed right down the street 02:44.290 --> 02:48.100 and I worked with Colonel Blough and Major Fletcher, 02:48.100 --> 02:50.660 no kidding, two o'clock in the morning, 02:50.660 --> 02:53.363 six o'clock in the morning, constant. 02:54.683 --> 02:58.713 I really enjoyed working with the ACC folks, I really did. 02:59.760 --> 03:02.600 But we did do something smart. 03:02.600 --> 03:05.100 We pre positioned our AFCAP team lead 03:05.100 --> 03:07.860 who was at the time Alex Larson, 03:07.860 --> 03:12.253 who Colonel Wagner stole from me, recently, 03:14.270 --> 03:17.470 and Joey Willard who is now the new AFCAP team lead. 03:17.470 --> 03:19.720 There's a picture of him right there. 03:19.720 --> 03:21.410 They went to Mississippi. 03:21.410 --> 03:23.870 They were staying in a little town house 03:23.870 --> 03:26.610 with five kids under the age of five, 03:26.610 --> 03:29.633 three pets and two and their wives. 03:30.530 --> 03:33.520 That was not a very comfortable environment 03:33.520 --> 03:37.410 but they were there, ready to go, from day one. 03:37.410 --> 03:39.980 And they did a great job 03:39.980 --> 03:42.423 working with Fletch, working with ACC 03:43.600 --> 03:45.670 working with Miss Richardson, 03:45.670 --> 03:49.420 the IMSC staff, to get funding and approvals. 03:49.420 --> 03:50.923 They did an amazing job. 03:52.730 --> 03:54.100 Accountability was difficult. 03:54.100 --> 03:56.130 We got a hold of most of the folks. 03:56.130 --> 03:57.771 It says 24 hours up there, 03:57.771 --> 03:59.006 I don't think it was 24 hours. 03:59.006 --> 04:02.400 It was probably more like 72, 04:02.400 --> 04:07.230 but that Saturday or Sunday, 04:07.230 --> 04:10.000 that's when I was able to find out, 04:10.000 --> 04:10.833 you know I was there, 04:10.833 --> 04:12.450 so I knew my house, 04:12.450 --> 04:14.850 fortunately did not have that much damage. 04:14.850 --> 04:16.143 So, I was very fortunate. 04:16.980 --> 04:20.740 I know my folks, Joey for being one, 04:20.740 --> 04:22.000 had a lot of damage 04:22.000 --> 04:26.880 and had to do a lot of work with insurance and contractors. 04:26.880 --> 04:31.813 So, I took over the AFCAP staff on that Sunday. 04:34.660 --> 04:37.310 And that's when we started working with KBR 04:37.310 --> 04:38.510 and getting things done. 04:41.370 --> 04:42.203 Okay, 04:43.980 --> 04:45.640 within a day, 04:45.640 --> 04:48.010 Miss Richardson approved our $93 million UCA 04:49.420 --> 04:53.380 and thanks again ma'am for all your support over the years. 04:53.380 --> 04:56.700 She's been incredible to support us. 04:56.700 --> 05:00.070 She's approved of sole source actions 05:00.070 --> 05:02.450 and UCAs from all over the world 05:02.450 --> 05:04.460 at all times of the day 05:04.460 --> 05:05.849 and we appreciate that. 05:05.849 --> 05:09.810 IMSC was tremendous with getting us some funding. 05:09.810 --> 05:11.930 We gave KBR our notice received. 05:11.930 --> 05:15.240 By the way , you might ask why KBR? 05:15.240 --> 05:16.763 Why did KBR get it? 05:17.710 --> 05:21.470 KBR was the next contractor on AFCAP 05:21.470 --> 05:25.460 that was in line to get us on urgent action. 05:25.460 --> 05:29.550 On AFCAP, it works, like on a rotational basis 05:29.550 --> 05:32.320 that was drawn by a lucky lot. 05:32.320 --> 05:34.293 So they hit the jackpot on this one. 05:35.450 --> 05:37.420 Alright, we got the, 05:37.420 --> 05:38.533 we weren't sure what, 05:39.430 --> 05:41.350 what was going to be at the time. 05:41.350 --> 05:45.490 So that's why we did get approval from Dr. Roper 05:45.490 --> 05:48.480 to go with the 593 million. 05:48.480 --> 05:49.400 Right now to date, 05:49.400 --> 05:52.940 we have $293 million on the task order. 05:52.940 --> 05:55.970 And we've just begun negotiations 05:55.970 --> 05:57.410 that we're trying to definitize it here 05:57.410 --> 05:58.950 in the next week or two. 05:58.950 --> 06:01.540 So the total amounts will probably be somewhere 06:01.540 --> 06:04.420 in the realm of $250 million 06:04.420 --> 06:06.170 of support that we gave to Tyndall. 06:08.300 --> 06:11.140 Okay, the first thing we did, once we got approvals, 06:11.140 --> 06:15.120 is AFCAP, along with the Army Corp of Engineers 06:15.120 --> 06:18.150 we did all the structural assessments. 06:18.150 --> 06:22.970 So, we had the KBR engineers were there and you can see 06:24.930 --> 06:28.830 lot of demo facilities, lot of repair opportunities 06:28.830 --> 06:30.550 and a lot of hold. 06:30.550 --> 06:32.690 That big number for hold was basically okay, 06:32.690 --> 06:35.230 we're not sure what we're gonna do with this building 06:35.230 --> 06:36.530 because we don't know what missions 06:36.530 --> 06:37.880 are still going to be here. 06:38.980 --> 06:40.313 So, there's some pictures. 06:41.800 --> 06:44.830 Okay, I know, I know more about mold and water mitigation 06:44.830 --> 06:47.680 and dryings than I would ever want to know at this point. 06:48.880 --> 06:51.620 We did it for 135 facilities. 06:51.620 --> 06:52.787 Drying is for 110. 06:56.582 --> 06:57.820 Okay, debris removal, 06:58.750 --> 07:01.323 there's hanger five, the dorms. 07:02.210 --> 07:05.130 Look how much cubic yards of debris 07:05.130 --> 07:07.350 the KBR contractor removed from that base 07:07.350 --> 07:09.590 it's just tremendous. 07:09.590 --> 07:10.843 A tremendous amount. 07:12.780 --> 07:14.573 Tarping, temporary roofing. 07:15.450 --> 07:19.360 Amazingly, that picture on the right, 07:19.360 --> 07:21.440 we had to fix that one twice 07:21.440 --> 07:23.930 because two months after Hurricane Michael 07:23.930 --> 07:26.270 a tornado hit Tyndall 07:26.270 --> 07:28.160 and ripped the roof, 07:28.160 --> 07:31.723 the temporary roof off, what KBR fixed from Michael. 07:34.090 --> 07:36.290 As we've been joking, you know, 07:36.290 --> 07:41.290 we've had the Tyndall recovery, the tornado at Tyndall, 07:41.550 --> 07:44.170 the earthquake in Alaska that we supported, 07:44.170 --> 07:46.820 the Offutt flooding that we're supporting right now. 07:46.820 --> 07:48.133 What's next? 07:49.440 --> 07:50.393 Locus, 07:52.450 --> 07:53.600 next week. 07:53.600 --> 07:54.810 And I was joking with Miss Richardson 07:54.810 --> 07:56.800 about, well, maybe it's family that's next. 07:56.800 --> 07:59.150 We took care of that with our state department. 08:00.030 --> 08:03.190 Okay, right after the hurricane 08:04.440 --> 08:05.700 there's nowhere to eat, 08:05.700 --> 08:08.690 there was nowhere to get cleaned up. 08:08.690 --> 08:09.970 So, that's one thing that AFCAP 08:09.970 --> 08:12.763 provided all the folks that were there on the ground. 08:14.210 --> 08:17.480 I'm proud to say that the kitchen and the laundry, 08:17.480 --> 08:19.350 we were able to turn that off recently. 08:19.350 --> 08:22.463 So, that was a really good thing to do. 08:23.720 --> 08:26.793 Okay, Colonel Blough mentioned the F22. 08:28.100 --> 08:29.643 There was a that picture right there, 08:29.643 --> 08:30.993 that was an actual F22. 08:32.690 --> 08:33.645 What is it? 08:33.645 --> 08:35.450 A $400 million asset sitting right underneath 08:35.450 --> 08:36.920 that wall right there. 08:36.920 --> 08:41.470 And that was some tense times for sure. 08:41.470 --> 08:43.970 One of the big tense issues with that 08:43.970 --> 08:45.310 is working with the contractor, 08:45.310 --> 08:46.970 'cause they didn't want the normal 08:46.970 --> 08:48.650 regular liability clause 08:49.550 --> 08:53.043 because they didn't want to be responsible for $400 million. 08:54.050 --> 08:57.000 So, that was another great thing 08:57.000 --> 08:59.210 that we were able to get support 08:59.210 --> 09:02.683 via Colonel Little and Mr. Martinez, sitting over there. 09:03.700 --> 09:06.490 We were able to get reach back attorney support 09:06.490 --> 09:09.010 and they did a great job at advising me 09:09.010 --> 09:11.380 and Colonel Blough on how to get that done. 09:11.380 --> 09:13.280 And it was a good news story 09:13.280 --> 09:17.723 when we were able to move that F22 from that wall, for sure. 09:19.350 --> 09:21.853 Okay, permanent repairs on AFCAP. 09:22.970 --> 09:26.180 AFCAP was only used for the permanent repairs 09:26.180 --> 09:29.883 that were absolutely required urgently. 09:31.610 --> 09:34.170 We had a lot of requests on AFCAP 09:34.170 --> 09:37.700 that were questionable with regard to urgency. 09:37.700 --> 09:41.903 Like, such as, moving static aircraft. 09:42.920 --> 09:45.690 You know, we didn't want to put that on UCA 09:45.690 --> 09:47.953 that's probably a little bit more expensive. 09:48.830 --> 09:50.420 So there's a lot of things that, coming up, 09:50.420 --> 09:52.823 the DODIG's already coming. 09:56.140 --> 09:57.820 They wanted to see us this month, 09:57.820 --> 09:59.550 we're like hey, we haven't definitised it yet, 09:59.550 --> 10:00.650 give us a little time. 10:02.820 --> 10:05.425 So there's a lot of things that we said no to. 10:05.425 --> 10:08.290 And I really appreciate, 10:08.290 --> 10:11.000 the working with Colonel Blough and Major Fletcher 10:11.000 --> 10:13.570 and de conflicting a lot of those types of things. 10:13.570 --> 10:15.993 They were really wonderful to work with. 10:17.420 --> 10:18.640 Okay, what went well? 10:18.640 --> 10:20.920 A lot of the what went wells 10:20.920 --> 10:22.630 and what didn't go so good 10:22.630 --> 10:24.500 are very similar to what Fletch had mentioned 10:24.500 --> 10:26.100 so I'm not going to repeat them. 10:28.260 --> 10:31.560 I do want to say that the CCO support 10:31.560 --> 10:34.200 and the Corps support was phenomenal. 10:34.200 --> 10:38.340 Also, reach back support, again from Colonel Little 10:38.340 --> 10:40.620 and Mr. Martinez. 10:40.620 --> 10:43.370 'Cause we don't do just AFCAP at Tyndall, 10:43.370 --> 10:45.840 we do a lot of other things at AFCAP 10:45.840 --> 10:48.883 that was just sitting, that had to get done. 10:49.740 --> 10:52.040 So, I really appreciate the reach back support 10:52.040 --> 10:53.483 that we had for that. 10:56.840 --> 10:58.860 Again, the contractor was quick 11:01.040 --> 11:03.410 in some cases the customer was complaining 11:03.410 --> 11:04.960 that they weren't quick enough. 11:06.230 --> 11:08.390 When they tried to compete something 11:08.390 --> 11:11.910 which, you can make it army yeah, that's great 11:11.910 --> 11:13.590 but we need it right now. 11:13.590 --> 11:16.950 So, KBR if you happened to remember 11:16.950 --> 11:21.370 was also the contractor that supported Hurricane Katrina, 11:21.370 --> 11:22.590 and there was a whole bunch of costs 11:22.590 --> 11:24.780 that they didn't get paid for. 11:24.780 --> 11:28.290 So, they we're trying to go and trying to be as conservative 11:28.290 --> 11:31.080 as possible with going as quick as possible. 11:31.080 --> 11:33.010 But they did a lot of work, 11:33.010 --> 11:36.380 structural assessments, mitigations, 11:36.380 --> 11:38.350 debris removal, sweepers. 11:38.350 --> 11:40.080 Sweepers you might not think are important 11:40.080 --> 11:42.010 but with all that debris everywhere 11:42.010 --> 11:43.470 it's pretty hard to drive a car anywhere, 11:43.470 --> 11:45.753 if you have nails in your car tires. 11:48.830 --> 11:50.760 Medical records retrieval, 11:50.760 --> 11:53.620 the medical records storage facility was heavily damaged 11:54.550 --> 11:58.050 those records were very important to get outta there. 11:58.050 --> 11:59.250 We were able to do that. 12:03.400 --> 12:05.243 Okay, what could be improved? 12:07.130 --> 12:09.860 One of the things that we struggled with 12:09.860 --> 12:11.340 in the beginning was, 12:11.340 --> 12:13.020 I'd always ask the question, 12:13.020 --> 12:16.320 Jim how quick can AFCAP do this? 12:16.320 --> 12:18.900 So, I'd be like KBR can you get this to us? 12:18.900 --> 12:20.410 When can you get this to us? 12:20.410 --> 12:23.160 Oh, yeah, we can have that to you in 48 hours. 12:23.160 --> 12:25.780 Well, what it really was, 12:25.780 --> 12:28.853 was 48 hours was the best case scenario. 12:30.260 --> 12:34.650 It might take a week and that wasn't relayed very well. 12:34.650 --> 12:36.880 So, those are the types of things that 12:36.880 --> 12:40.770 I think that we could do better in the future. 12:40.770 --> 12:44.430 And in fact, we're already working on the hogwash 12:44.430 --> 12:46.180 to make sure that we're better prepared 12:46.180 --> 12:47.780 for the next disaster. 12:47.780 --> 12:50.620 Oh, by the way, like I mentioned Offutt earlier, 12:50.620 --> 12:53.930 we asked AFCAP is supporting Offutt right now, 12:53.930 --> 12:57.980 with a $50 million task order supporting all the flooding. 12:57.980 --> 13:00.700 And lo and behold, we actually are taking 13:00.700 --> 13:03.463 these lessons learned and we're applying them. 13:04.930 --> 13:05.980 It's great, isn't it? 13:06.840 --> 13:09.550 And it's actually going very smoothly. 13:09.550 --> 13:13.363 It really is good stuff.