Counsel, Naval Supply Systems Command
NAVSUP's mission is to provide Navy, Marine Corps, Joint and Allied Forces with products
and services that deliver Combat Capability through Logistics. NAVSUP manages supply
chains that provide material for Navy aircraft, surface ships, submarines, and their
associated weapons systems. NAVSUP provides centralized inventory management for Navy's
non-nuclear ordnance stockpile and also provides a wide range of base operating and
waterfront logistics support services: coordinates material deliveries; contracts for
supplies and services; and provides material management and warehousing services.
Furthermore, NAVSUP is responsible for many of the Quality of Life programs that touch the
lives of sailors and their families every day, including Navy Exchanges, Navy Lodges,
the Navy Personal Property Program, the Navy Postal System, and the Navy Food Service Program.
NAVSUP's Office of Counsel employs approximately 60 attorneys. NAVSUP Counsel,
Deputy Counsel, and three Associate Counsels are located at NAVSUP Headquarters in
Mechanicsburg, PA. Additional Associates are located in San Diego and Philadelphia.
These supervisory Associates work closely with the senior managers reviewing policy and
command-wide decisions as well as supervising the attorneys assigned to 17 field locations
around the world including the United States, Singapore, Sigonella, Naples, Bahrain, and
Yokosuka, Japan. The NAVSUP practice of law is diverse and may include providing legal
advice in Government acquisition; fiscal law; ethics; federal, state and local taxation;
bankruptcy; fraud, waste and abuse; human resources and equal employment opportunity;
environmental law; legislation; and various other administrative matters, including Freedom
of Information and Privacy Acts, and regulatory reform. The NAVSUP attorneys are frequently
required to defend cases before administrative tribunals such as the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, the Merit Systems Protection Board, and the Armed Services Board of
Contract Appeals. In addition, the Office has a robust protest practice before the Government
Accountability Office. The attorneys also support the Department of Justice in cases before the
Court of Federal Claims, Federal District Courts, and Courts of Appeals for the various Circuits.
For additional information on NAVSUP and the Counsel for the Naval Supply Systems Command,
go to www.navsup.navy.mil