ACHIEVEMENTS by Robert E. Coultas
An Army contracting civilian and three Army organizations were among win- ners of the David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award and the 2011 Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD(AT&L)) Workforce Achievement and Workforce Development Awards, presented Nov. 1, 2011 at the Program Executive Officers’/ Systems Command Commanders’ Con- ference at Fort Belvoir, VA.
PACKARD AWARDS The 5.56mm M855A1 Enhanced Per- formance Round (EPR) Integrated Product Team (IPT), within Program Exec- utive Office (PEO) Ammunition’s Project Manager (PM) Maneuver Ammunition Systems, received one of four Packard Awards for its innovative redesign of the Cold War-era General Purpose 5.56mm M855 ammunition round, which was ineffective against hard target barriers at extended ranges and lacked stopping power against soft targets.
“The team maintained a robust engi- neering approach in their product improvement program by following many of the same milestone or ‘gate’ reviews and checkpoints that a Full Materiel Release program would have used,” the award citation states. “By adopting this hybrid approach, the team was able to field the M855A1 EPR as an Engineering Change
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Proposal, saving months of time from the schedule, at reduced cost, without jeopardizing quality.” The result is “vastly improved capability” for Soldiers using the M4, M16, or M249 weapon system, the citation states.
The PEO Ground Combat Systems PM Stryker Brigade Combat Team’s Double V-Hull (DVH) Team was honored with a Packard Award for its rapid response in addressing the ever-changing threats for Stryker vehicles in theater. The DVH emerged from the Stryker modernization vehicle concept program as a design that could provide more robust survivability with greater potential to mitigate blast effects from improvised explosive devices, compared with shorter-term survivability enhance- ment kits for the 10 Stryker variants.
“Using a proactive approach, the team leveraged prenegotiated vehicle pricing
on the current requirements contract to allow the necessary flexibility to adjust to the unique needs of the DVH in the Afghanistan theater of operations, which include enhanced armor, wider tires, and blast-attenuating seats,” the award cita- tion states. “In addition, by leveraging current production of vehicles already on order, the number of new vehicles that had to be ordered was reduced and longer lead times on much of the mission- essential packages were avoided, netting a cost avoidance of almost $900 million. As a result, the PM Stryker DVH team was able to proceed from concept to production of 150 vehicles in less than 12 months.”
WORKFORCE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Cindy Wagoner, a Contracting Offi- cer for the U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command’s Safety/Radiation Waste
USD(AT&L) WORKFORCE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Cindy Wagoner (center), a Contracting Officer for the U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command’s Safety/Radiation Waste Directorate, receives the USD(AT&L) Workforce Achievement Award for Contract Auditing from Frank Kendall, Acting USD(AT&L), and DAU President Katrina McFarland. (DoD photos by Erica Kobren.)
CAREER CORNER / PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
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