HARD WORK PAYS OFF
Also doubly honored was the Program Executive Office (PEO) for Ammunition: Paul Manz received the Individual Achieve- ment Award in the Engineering category, and the Project Manager for Maneuver Ammunition Systems (PM MAS) received the David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award.
JPO JLTV WINS AGAIN
JPO JLTV, a joint program between the Army and the Marine Corps that operates under the PEO for Combat Support and Combat Service Support, received the 2016 Should Cost and Innovation Award. JPO JLTV also received Packard awards in 2015 and 2013. (Photo courtesy of Oshkosh Defense)
Manz is chief scientist, chief engineer and chief technology offi- cer for PEO Ammunition, overseeing transition and insertion of enabling technologies across a $3 billion munitions and arma- ments portfolio and PEO Ammunition’s $100 million annual research and development budget. He accelerated the integra- tion of GPS technologies across DOD’s precision armaments portfolio and led a joint initiative to assess the maturity of Air Force M-Code GPS technology for subsequent use by multiple joint programs of record, an effort that avoided $170 million in potentially duplicative activities.
PM MAS, which provides direct-fire combat and training ammu- nition capabilities to warfighters across all of the services and the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), was recog- nized for its innovative acquisition of nonstandard ammunition in support of operations to counter the Islamic State group and ongoing conflicts in the U.S. Central Command area of respon- sibility. Faced with increasing demand and a limited supplier base that delayed product delivery, PM MAS employed several life cycle management initiatives as well as principles from sev- eral focus areas of Better Buying Power to reduce delivery times from 24-36 months to six months or less. It’s the second Packard Award for PM MAS, which received its first in 2011 for efforts to field the 5.56 mm Enhanced Performance Round. Another PEO Ammunition organization, the Project Manager for Com- bat Ammunition Systems, received the Packard Award in 2012.
Rounding out the list of Army award winners are Jacki A. Garner, U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR), who received the Individual Achievement Award in the Information Technology category, and the Joint Program Office for Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JPO JLTV), which received the 2016 Should Cost and Innovation Award.
BLUE GRASS WORK HONORED
Contractors at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Richmond, Kentucky, prepare reinforcing steel for concrete pads for the bulk waste storage area. Sharon D. Valle of ACC-Rock Island received the Workforce Individual Achievement Award in the Industrial Property category for her work tracking hundreds of thousands of pieces of government property on the Blue Grass project. (U.S. Army photo)
Garner led efforts to develop an effective framework for process- ing information technology (IT) contracts within USAREUR. She created an IT acquisition working group, which included representatives from the 409th Contracting Support Brigade (CSB) and USAREUR major subordinate commands, that estab- lished processes to streamline IT acquisitions and resulted in all IT contracts being awarded on time. She persuaded the 409th CSB’s principal adviser responsible for contracting to allow her
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