LET IT GROW
“Work requires an occasional mess, a vision for how it could be and a plan,” said Emma Wilson, assistant joint program executive officer for logistics at the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO- CBRND). Wilson oversees and manages the JPEO-CBRND headquarters logistics staff’s support to the joint project offices and the joint program executive officer, and she tends to her work with the same enthusiasm as she has for her garden. “I am happi- est when I am elbow deep in dirt or when pruning back plants trying to make order out of nature,” she said.
EMMA WILSON
COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: Joint Pro- gram Executive Office for Chemical, Biologi- cal, Radiological and Nuclear Defense
TITLE: Assistant joint program executive officer for logistics
YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 18 YEARS OF MILITARY SERVICE: 21
DAWIA CERTIFICATIONS: Advanced in program management and in life cycle logistics
EDUCATION: M.S. in national resource strategy, Industrial College of the Armed Forces National Defense University; Master of Public Administration, University of Oklahoma; B.A. in history, Eastern Washington University; Executive certificate in management and lead- ership, MIT Sloan School of Administration; Senior Executive Fellows, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
AWARDS: Meritorious Civilian Service Award; Armed Forces Civilian Service Medal; Commander’s Award for Civilian Service; Le- gion of Merit; six Meritorious Service Medals; three Army Commendation Medals; two Army Achievement Medals
Wilson also oversees the JPEO’s audit readiness, supporting joint project managers and joint project leads’ internal control administrators and audit points of contact, and is their acquisition career management advocate (ACMA). As the ACMA she supports the Army Director of Acquisition Career Management Office and joint program exec- utive office leadership as a resource for the workforce and to ensure dissemination of important information. “Tis was critical during the transition to [Back-to-Basics]. It was the command’s intent the workforce understands what was happening and be prepared,” Wilson said.
As a 21-year Army veteran and career Army civilian, her greatest satisfaction in being a part of the Army Acquisition Workforce is knowing that her efforts are supporting the warfighter.
“My last assignment in the military was at the Pentagon, where I was assigned to [the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology], working in integrated logistics support. Tat was my first experience in acquisition,” Wilson said. “My career up to that point had been mainly tactical communications. When I retired from the military and was hired as an Army civilian, I was able to join the Army Acquisition Corps and became certified for life cycle logistics.”
Wilson retired as a lieutenant colonel, 25A signal officer. Her first civilian position was the executive officer for the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for integrated logis- tics support in ASA(ALT).
“In my 13 years at the JPEO, I have served in 10 positions, which has given me a unique breadth of experience in nearly all aspects of the work this organization does on behalf of the warfighter,” she said. “Tat experience is proving quite useful in my current role, as logistics in the CBRND world is a complex and fascinating field. Our PEOs need to ensure the equipment we field can be supported by all of the services and the special operations forces.” Te best example, Wilson said, is their work to create a process that meets all of the service’s integrated logistics assessment requirements. “Te complexity at my level is understanding the service’s policy and disseminating it, ensuring the tools are available to the product support managers,” she said.
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