RECOGNIZING ACQUISITION ACHIEVEMENT


RECOGNIZING


ARMY ACQUISITION ACHIEVEMENT


Awards recognize the year’s noteworthy contributions to funding, fielding, developing and sustaining equipment and services for U.S. warfighters


by Ms. Susan L. Follett T


he year 2016 ended with a flurry of awards in the Army acquisition community in particular, including the Army Acquisi- tion Executive’s Excellence in Leadership


Awards, the Maj. Gen. Harold J. “Harry” Greene Awards for Acquisition Writing, the 2016 Army Modeling and Simulation Award in Acquisition and the Secretary of the Army Excellence in Contracting Award. Te Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space (PEO MS) netted four awards, with the PEO for Aviation earning two.


Steffanie B. Easter, the senior official performing the duties of the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology (ASA(ALT)) and the Army acquisition executive (AAE), and Lt. Gen. Michael E. Williamson, ASA(ALT) principal military deputy, presided over the Dec. 1 awards ceremony, which was hosted by Brig. Gen. Brian P. Cummings, the PEO for Soldier.


“You are the best group of professionals I’ve ever met. My confidence in you is unwavering. I will put you guys against anybody any day,” Easter said, later


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adding, “We’re going from good to great in every- thing we do.”


At PEO MS, Alfreda Green, Lawrence Nevins and Jeannie Sommer received awards in the categories of Logistician of the Year, Acquisition Support Pro- fessional of the Year and the Honorable Dr. Claude Bolton Jr. Engineer and System Integrator of the Year Award, respectively.


Sommer, systems integration and test engineering lead, played a key role in the successful demonstration of the Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2 – Intercept’s end-to-end kill chain. She’s the first to receive the Bolton award, which pays tribute to the distinguished former ASA(ALT) who died in July 2015.


Green provides logistical support for the HELLFIRE Missile, the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile, and Aviation Rockets and Small Guided Munitions, all Acquisition Category I programs. She provided new equipment training to support deployment of the first ever U.S. Army Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System in


Army AL&T Magazine


January-March 2017


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