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Counsel, Naval Air Systems Command
The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), in combination with the Program Executive Offices, is responsible for the development, acquisition, management and maintenance of the Navy's aircraft and certain of its missiles. This responsibility includes a multitude of products--from cargo planes and helicopters to the latest fighter and attack aircraft to advance missile systems and unmanned aerial vehicles. Some of the major programs are the Joint Strike Fighter, the V-22, the F/A-18, the F-14, the Sidewinder missile, the Harpoon missile, the Presidential helicopters, TOMAHAWK Cruise Missile and unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles. In these and related electronics, support, spare parts, and overhaul programs, NAVAIR deals with the major corporations in the aerospace industry and with numerous foreign governments. NAVAIR Headquarters is located in Patuxent River, Maryland.
The Office of Counsel provides legal advice to NAVAIR in all of its efforts. The office includes over 40 attorneys advising NAVAIR Headquarters clients, and over 30 attorneys providing advice to NAVAIR's field organization, which includes the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division at Patuxent River, Maryland and Lakehurst, New Jersey; the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at Pt. Mugu and China Lake, California; the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division at Orlando, Florida; and Naval Aviation Depots at Jacksonville, Florida, Cherry Point, North Carolina and Coronado, California. New attorneys are assigned a variety of work, enabling them to establish a well-rounded background in OGC practice areas and assisting them in career development. Each attorney is assigned to on-going programs or projects under one of the eight Senior Associate Counsels (e.g., a specific acquisition program or civilian personnel law litigation) and serves as counsel for a team of contracts personnel, analysts, engineers and program managers or command management personnel. New attorneys usually also become involved in defending NAVAIR before the General Accounting Office, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals or the Merit Systems Protection Board. While the major focus of the Office of Counsel’s work is procurement law, a significant amount of attorney time is spent in civilian personnel law, environmental law, fiscal law, intellectual property law, Freedom of Information Act issues, and ethics and standards of conduct questions. Attorneys involved in civilian personnel play an advocacy and advisory role in representing NAVAIR management, both as to formal litigation as well as during the informal grievance process. Attorneys assigned to intellectual property matters concentrate on acquisition counseling, patent infringement claims and litigation, invention surveillance and patent prosecution. Attorneys assigned to environmental matters concentrate on NEPA issues as well as base closure matters.
For additional information on NAVAIR and the Counsel for the Naval Air Systems Command, go to www.navair.navy.mil.
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