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Environmental Assessment
costly than government-owned space and generally does not meet
current anti-terrorism/force protection (AT/FP) requirements.
NSMA is one of the Navy organizations affected by the BRAC
mandate to move out of leased space and relocate to a DoD
facility. NSMA’s mission is to provide logistics support to the
Navy. Logistics is the management of the flow of goods,
information, or other resources between the point of production
and the point of consumption or use. Warehousing, inventory,
handling, packaging, transportation, and delivery are all
elements of logistics.
NSMA currently occupies several separate leased administrative
facilities in the Crystal City and Clarendon neighborhoods of
Arlington County, VA. The agency additionally maintains a
warehouse, also located in Arlington County. A total of
approximately 800 persons work at these locations.
1.1.2 NSF Anacostia
NSF Anacostia is located in the southwestern quadrant of the
District of Columbia, along the eastern shore of the Anacostia
River, near the river’s confluence with the Potomac and across
the Potomac from Arlington County (See Figures 1-1 and 1-2). NSF
Anacostia is a component of Naval Support Activity (NSA)
Washington, one of four NSAs within Naval District Washington
(NDW).
In compliance with the 2005 BRAC Act, NSF Anacostia is in the
process of becoming a joint base with Bolling Air Force Base
(AFB), home to the Air Force’s 11 th Wing and located immediately
to the south of NSF Anacostia. The Anacostia-Bolling joint base
will be managed under NSA Washington and NDW.
Even before the BRAC mandate to become one joint base, NSF
Anacostia and Bolling AFB, though administratively distinct,
were physically continuous and shared a perimeter fence and
entry gates. Both installations have broadly similar missions.
They provide support to personnel assigned to the National
Capital area, including personnel administration and assistance,
personnel property movement, medical care, fire protection and
emergency response, housing, distinguished visitor and highranking
personnel transportation, and various morale, welfare,
and recreation activities. Both installations also support
representational activities such as the Navy Ceremonial Guard
and the Air Force Honor Guard.
Purpose and Need 1-2