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Certified as a project management professional, Patrick O’Connell is a Washington, DC, executive with past experience as director of program and strategy at High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd. Building on his experience with HS2, Patrick O’Connell presently engages with the United States Navy as chief of naval personnel.
An ongoing US Navy project involves Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 efforts to construct a maritime operations center on the Black Sea coast. Situated strategically in the vicinity of Odessa on Ukraine’s Ochakiv Naval Base, the $750,000 center will serve as an operational and planning hub, with uses that come to the fore during joint US-Ukrainian Sea Breeze military exercises each year.
The maritime operations center has a corollary aim of enhancing host nation defense capacities and bolstering European reassurance initiatives that ensure stability in the Black Sea region and beyond. Once completed, the facility will be operated by Ukrainian naval forces, as there are no plans for the permanent stationing of US forces there.
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