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• Defense Logistics Agency, ADR homepage
  • It is the goal of this Center for all parties to be satisfied at contract completion. Consequently, this Center is encouraging the use of all forms of ADR to resolve differences of view that may occur under the contract, whether the differences involve disputes of contract terms, issues of administration, or merely points of inquiry. The use of any form of ADR is voluntary for all parties. Any costs associated with the use of ADR will be agreed to by both parties and with no increase in contract price, unless agreed to otherwise.
• Department of Agriculture, ADR
  • The Center, or CPRC, was created to help USDA better handle conflict -- workplace conflict, conflict with farmers or ranchers, even conflict with other agencies.
• Department of the Air Force, ADR
  • The Air Force ADR Program is the exemplar program in the federal government, having received numerous awards for its efforts to bring resolution to costly and time-consuming disputes.
• Department of Energy, Office of Dispute Resolution
  • The Office of Dispute Resolution is responsible for operating a program to increase the understanding and use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) throughout the Department and with its contractors.
• Department of Health and Human Services, Departmental Appeals Board
  • DAB's mission is to provide the best possible dispute resolution services for the people who appear before us, those who rely on our decisions, and the public.
• Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, ADR
  • The BLM (people, work force, organization, and culture) will value resolving issues and disputes through alternative dispute resolution philosophies and processes (alternative dispute resolution) rather than through confrontation, appeals or litigation.
• Department of Justice, Office of Dispute Resolution
  • The Office of Dispute Resolution coordinates the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for the Department of Justice. The office is responsible for ADR policy matters, ADR training, assisting lawyers in selecting the right cases for dispute resolution, and finding appropriate neutrals to serve as mediators, arbitrators, and neutral evaluators. The office also coordinates the Interagency ADR Working Group, an organization that promotes the use of ADR throughout federal executive branch agencies, which was created by the President and is chaired by the Attorney General.
• Department of Labor, ADR Website
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) refers to any procedure, agreed to by the parties of a dispute, in which they call upon the services of a neutral party to assist them in reaching agreement and thus avoid litigation: assisted negotiation, as opposed to unassisted negotiation or adjudication. Types of ADR include arbitration, mediation, negotiated rulemaking, neutral factfinding, and minitrials. With one exception (binding arbitration) the goal of ADR is to provide a forum for the parties themselves to work towards a voluntary, consensual agreement, as opposed to having a judge or other authority decide the case.
  • In addition to serving as a potential means of avoiding the expense, delay, and uncertainty associated with traditional litigation, ADR also is intended as a vehicle for improving communication between the parties. ADR provides a forum for creative solutions to disputes that better meet the needs of the parties.
• Department of the Navy, ADR Website
  • SECNAVINST 5800.13A established the DON ADR Program Office with the following missions:
    • Coordinate ADR policy and initiatives;
    • Assist activities in securing or creating cost effective ADR techniques or local programs;
    • Promote the use of ADR, and provide training in negotiation and ADR methods;
    • Serve as legal counsel for in-house neutrals used on ADR matters; and,
    • For matters that do not use in-house neutrals, the program assists DON attorneys and other representatives concerning issues in controversy that are amenable to using ADR.
  • The ADR Office also serves as the point of contact for questions regarding the use of ADR. The Assistant General Counsel (ADR) serves as the “Dispute Resolution Specialist” for the DON, as required by the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1996. Members of the office represent the DON’s interests on a variety of DoD and interagency working groups that promote the use of ADR within the Federal Government.
  • The program invites you to explore this website to learn about the many ways that ADR – and the ADR Program – can help you or your organization resolve issues in controversy at the earliest stage feasible, at the lowest organizational level, and with minimum expense.
• Department of Veterans Affairs, Dispute Resolution Programs
  • VA Directive 5978, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), February 23, 2000, states that, “It is the  policy of VA to encourage its employees to use mediation to help resolve workplace conflicts as early as feasible, to the maximum extent practicable, in an appropriate and cost-effective manner, and at the lowest organizational level..... Collect and analyze information in a standardized fashion to enable ADR programs to be monitored and assessed, in order to measure resource savings, timeliness and user satisfaction.”
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