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Cleveland
Defense Industry
A liance
KEEP CLEVELAND DFAS
Testimony of Frederick R. Nance
Chairman, Cleveland Defense Industry Alliance
Before the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission
Buffalo, New York, Regional Hearing
Monday, June 27, 2005
Good Afternoon. My name is Fred Nance, and I am privileged to serve as Chairman of
the Cleveland Defense Industry Alliance. This broad-based organization was formed by
the Greater Cleveland Partnership and Team NEO, our community's chamber of
commerce and regional economic development organizations, to preserve the 1,200 jobs
and support the men and women of the Cleveland Defense Finance and Accounting
Service. These dedicated employees - some of whom are here today - personify the
excellence in performance and military value that is the hallmark of DFAS Cleveland, the
world center for Navy pay operations and a Reserve Pay Center of Excellence.
I also want to acknowledge the unified, bi-partisan support for DFAS Cleveland that has
been shown by a wide range of elected and community officials. You will hear from
some of them later, but I especially want to thank Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell and
Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones for being here today. In addition,
33 diverse communities throughout our region have passed resolutions or written letters
of support to Keep Cleveland DFAS, and those are included in your briefing books.
We appreciate your dedication to a difficult but vital task for our country. Our initial
work with the BRAC Commission and with your superb staff has been most productive
and we look forward to our continuing dialogue. We know that today is the start of the
review process, not the endpoint, and we value the open-mindedness that the Commission
and the staff have demonstrated.
At a BRAC hearing last week in St. Louis, a fellow commissioner described your role as
one of... quote ... conducting a reality check ... unquote ... of the Department of
Defense's processes and recommendations. That is a good description, because our
analysis of the data finally released by DoD reveals some substantial deviations from
BRAC principles.
Some of the information is inaccurate; some of the recommendations are illogical; and
some are inconsistently applied. These errors and omissions need to be corrected and, as
you will see, when those corrections are made, the conclusion is inescapable - the BRAC
Commission should reverse the Department of Defense recommendation and Keep
Cleveland DFAS.Greater Cleveland Partnership Tower City Center 50 Public Square Suite 200 Cleveland, Ohio 44113-2291 216-592-2342
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