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Rear Admiral-retired Chris Weaver is an independent consultant and advisor with an extensive background in Defense base infrastructure management; strategic organizational change; environmental compliance and community outreach and information technology streamlining. In early 2006, Rear Admiral Weaver completed a 36 year Navy career, retiring from command of all Navy Installations worldwide.
Rear Admiral Weaver has achieved a reputation as an expert in the innovative management of the Navy's global shore-based infrastructure, and has led efforts on behalf of DoD to achieve transformation of all Service components' base management processes and organizations. His broad and varied career background, and his education and experience in public administration, defense business operations, and strategic defense logistics and support processes have expanded his potential to make wider impact for positive change.
As the first Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNI), Rear Admiral Weaver created the equivalent of a $9 billion "startup" enterprise by aggregating the operations, personnel and resources of over 80 bases worldwide, representing $122 billion in plant property, as well as the base support responsibilities for Fleet operations around the globe. He also implemented business-based principles of measuring outputs versus resources expended; creating a functional model that defines the process comprising shore support for the Navy. Moreover, this model provided to Navy leadership for the first time, visibility of cost/benefit/risk in resource allocation decision making. The net effect of this effort was the intelligent saving and reallocation of Navy resources totaling $12.8 billion, or 23%, of the FY 05 to FY 11 budget program.
He developed comprehensive Emergency Management and Antiterrorism/Force Protection Programs for Navy regions and installations. The success of this effort was reflected in the outstanding Navy response to the hurricanes of 2005 on the Gulf Coast and in the improved security postures of Navy bases and installations around the world.
Rear Admiral Weaver is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Class of 1971. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Naval Academy and a Master of Public Administration degree from The George Washington University. He is also a Distinguished Graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University. He possesses top security clearances.