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CSA’s work for the Navy has resulted in the successful completion of more than 40 multidisciplinary domestic and international projects. Since 1992, CSA has served as the prime contractor on four consecutive Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts to provide marine environmental services to NAVFAC Southeast (formally SouthDiv), totaling more than $21,500,000. CSA is currently an approved subcontractor on three Navy IDIQ contracts Over the course of this history, CSA has consistently demonstrated our ability to successfully and innovatively complete project after project. The formalization of our corporate approach to “working for the Navy” with the creation of our Navy Business Line further demonstrates our firm’s commitment to the Navy’s mission and need for “high quality, timely, cost effective, and efficient environmental support.” A recent illustrative example of this commitment and its benefit to the Navy is our involvement in the 5-year Key West Harbor Dredging project, which enabled government approval of the first dredging project in a National Marine Sanctuary. As the Navy’s environmental contractor for this high-profile project, CSA was tasked with conduction environmental assessment, permit application preparation, and environmental monitoring design and implementation. Also, our professional credibility was crucial to our being able to initiate project implementation as rapidly as we did within the environmentally sensitive and restrictive regulatory framework. The Navy commended our firm for understanding its focus on sustainable readiness in addition to our knowledge of potential interplays and encroachment from environmental mandates, public perceptions, and litigation on the Navy’s operational readiness and range sustainability initiatives. CSA’s Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) for the SEAWOLF submarine shock testing and the WINSTON S. CHURCHILL (DDG 81) guided missile destroyer shock trial were each described by the Navy as benchmarks for future environmental documentation. Based on sound scientific reasoning, CSA persuaded the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS, NOAA Fisheries Service) to accept a reduced aerial survey scope for marine mammals and sea turtles, thus saving the Navy in excess of $700,000 over the course of just one project. Notably, a CSA Senior Scientist received the Secretary of the Navy Environmental Award in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement for his performance as part of the “USS Winston Churchill EIS Team”. Other significant CSA projects for the Navy using both unprecedented and conventional approaches include the following:
CSA understands the magnitude and broad range of complex environmental issues facing the Navy along the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific coasts as well as throughout the world. To thoroughly address these issues, CSA focuses on developing and implementing science‑based resource and impact assessments and monitoring programs in underwater and aerial environments. We have proven that we are dedicated to providing creative solutions for the Navy using strategic program management and issue-responsive adaptive management strategies to gain regulatory approvals on schedule and within budget in order to successfully meet Navy mission objectives. CSA has significant in-house resources that provide a broad range of multidisciplinary desktop and field survey service capabilities. We proudly continue to serve the Navy today and will continue delivering excellence in the future to enhance the Navy’s “balance between defending freedom and remaining good stewards of the environment.” |
CSA has worked for the Navy since the 1980’s on various projects, including NEPA environmental impact statements and related document preparation for ship shock trials and additional Navy activities, aerial surveys to assess marine mammal and other endangered species populations, benthic characterization along the U.S. Atlantic coast and in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, and monitoring environmental impacts associated with dredging.