South Florida Defense Alliance

Sunday: CLOSED
Monday: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Tuesday: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Thursday: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Friday: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Saturday: CLOSED

Address: PO Box 298368, Pembroke Pines, FL, 33029
Website: https://www.southfloridadefensealliance.org/
Email: support@southfloridadefensealliance.org
Phone: (786) 202-1531

Description of Products or Services:

Overview

The South Florida Defense Alliance is the leader of a strong regional coalition that supports local military commands, defense industry, academia, government and the community through a powerful network of relationships, relevant information, a deep knowledge and expertise in military affairs, and the coordination of advocacy and support initiatives. Our team consists of former senior military and defense leaders who are dedicated to our goals and have put an effective system in place that elevates trust, credibility and the interest for regional growth.

WHY A DEFENSE ALLIANCE?

Advocate: 24 Commands and 15 Installations 

​Support: 56,000 active, reserve, guard servicemembers, civilians and their families  

​Assist: Over 230,000 veterans in our 4 counties 

Grow: Economic impact of .3B and 130K jobs 

​Enhance: Increased military missions and latest advanced technology and equipment  

Protect: Encroachment, realignment or BRAC 

​Promote: Value of our strategic location, training sites and installations 

​Need: Strong consistent, single voice to tell our story and change perceptions

Essential: United effort – local, state and federal

 

VISION

The South Florida Defense Alliance assembles the local experts to provide:

1. Relationships – Mutually beneficial relationships to gain access and influence.

2. Information and Advice – Awareness, information and advice on key issues that pose opportunities and threats.

3. Knowledge and Expertise - Experts in base and mission requirements, the knowledge of how the military operates at high levels, and the ability to translate issues and challenges clearly and succinctly.

4. Integrated Advocacy and Support - Awareness and understanding of the key local issues and the ability to use all resources and relationships to perform research and analysis to take coordinated action.

5. Impactful Teams – Ability to leverage our relationships, access and influence to assemble impactful teams to rally around issues and deliver solutions, reinforced by the benefit of being free to act independently from government constraints.

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PURPOSE

The South Florida Defense Alliance is the leader of a strong regional coalition that supports local military commands, defense industry, academia, government and the community through a powerful network of relationships, relevant information, a deep knowledge and expertise in military affairs, and the coordination of advocacy and support initiatives. Our team consists of former senior military and defense leaders who are dedicated to our goals and have put an effective system in place that elevates trust, credibility and the interest for regional growth.

GOALS

1. Create a single unified and consistent voice in South Florida

2. Coalesce community support around our defense community and industries

​3. Promote, preserve and enhance our local military missions and installations

4. Attract, retain, expand defense related industry, academic study and research

​5. Promote and facilitate compatible community development

​6. Advocate for our military commands, service-members and their families to make South Florida more “military friendly”

HISTORY

The South Florida Progress Foundation, the charitable arm of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce (GMCC) was recently awarded a Florida Defense Support Task Force grant to form the South Florida Defense Alliance, a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization, whose mission is to unite, grow, champion and represent our local defense community. The South Florida Defense Alliance will leverage the strong relationships and the successes that the GMCC’s Military Affairs Committee and the Miami-Dade County’s Military Affairs Board have achieved as being long-standing advocates for military presence, readiness, capability and growth in South Florida. Most importantly, it will work in concert with the many organizations throughout the county already supporting our precious military installations, commands, service-members and their families.

South Florida has a storied military history, hosting some of the nation’s most important DoD assets and military commands. USSOUTHCOM, NAS Key West, Coast Guard District 7, MARFORSOUTH, Homestead Air Reserve Base and SOCSOUTH are just a handful of the many military institutions in our region that houses over 25,000 service-members. Creating a consistent voice for the various commands will bring much needed cohesion to an area whose enormous military presence goes almost entirely unnoticed. This alliance has been formed to unite, champion and grow the South Florida defense community, and since its formation in 2017, it has made strides in all 3 areas and will only continue to build on its successes.

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