A NAVAIR Alignment Assessment starts today and runs through May 31.

All NAVAIR civil service and military employees are encouraged to participate. The assessment is available online via https://www.genesysassessments.com/navair and the NAVAIR Plan of the Day (https://mynavair.navair.navy.mil) and is anonymous and confidential.

In a message to the workforce, Vice Admiral Massenburg reiterated NAVAIR’s role, the goals of the organization, and how this assessment will measure the degree to which NAVAIR’s strategies, people, and processes are working together to achieve the mission.

“Our single, Fleet-driven metric is to provide Aircraft and Carriers Ready for Tasking at Reduced Cost—today, tomorrow, and in the future,” he said. “To that end, we’ve been working toward achieving the same five goals I established when I first became NAVAIR Commander in December 2003.”

Those goals were as follows: Balance Current and Future Readiness, Reduce the Cost of Doing Business, Improve Agility, Ensure Alignment, and Implement a Single Fleet-Driven Metric. It takes enterprise behavior focused on the greater good to achieve these goals.

He also explained the importance of measuring how well the workforce understands transformation initiatives designed to achieve these goals, such as the Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE), Total Force Readiness (TFR), and Fleet Readiness Centers (FRC).

“We need feedback from members of the workforce because they are the ones in close, regular contact with our customers,” he said. “Assessments like this reveal their level of understanding regarding goals and initiatives, their view of what’s good and bad about the organization, and how they see themselves contributing to the mission.”

“That in turn helps us shape, enrich, improve, and implement strategies that are relevant to helping us deliver cost-wise readiness to the Fleet,” he added.

The assessment also asks questions about supervision, culture, workforce shaping, partnerships, alignment, customer focus, and responsiveness, and will measure progress against the baseline information obtained from the first Alignment Assessment completed in November 2004.