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RSAC Officially Opens in Pentagon

Navy NewsStand

Story Number: NNS060309-07
3/9/2006

By Photographer's Mate 2nd Class (AW) Scott Webb, Naval Media Center

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Pentagon officially opening The Resource, Situation Awareness Center (RSAC) for business, March 8.

The space will be used by Navy leadership in the event of a crisis happening in the world that requires assistance from the Navy, to include tsunamis, hurricanes, and attacks against the United States and its allies. The space has been placed by the other military branch's crises management rooms in the Pentagon.

"It provides a collaboration of effort between all the services in supporting the joint staff and all of the service's title ten function," said Capt. Vincent Drouillard, director of the Navy Operations Center. "Basically we have all the operations and intelligence divisions of the four services co-located within a single area so it provides just a great opportunity to collaborate briefs and other functions that our operations and intelligence perform."

The RSAC's location in the Pentagon was placed with jointness, and convenience in mind.

"It was built because the secretary of defense had a vision for all the services to collaborate better. In the past, Navy Operations Center and Navy Operations Division was in one part of the Pentagon, and Army was different, and some of them were in Navy Annex, etc., and this gets us all in the same area," Drouillard explained. "And the secretary of defense's vision was that there'd be better collaboration between all the services and between the services and the Joint Staff."

Having RSAC where it is and having such collaboration allows the four services to respond better to any crisis and endorses a more collaborated information line, keeping one service's information from contradicting another and preventing those military branches from working together.

RSAC's existence will also streamline the process of providing the best force to a crisis area, giving the Sailor, Marine, Soldier, and Airman tasked, the best possible support needed from all four branches, in a timely manner.