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EASTER APPOINTED TO LEAD ASA(ALT) Steffanie B. Easter has been appointed the senior official performing the duties of the assis- tant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology (ASA(ALT)) and Army acquisi- tion executive, filling the post vacated Nov. 1, 2016, by the Hon. Katrina McFarland.
Formerly the principal deputy to the ASA(ALT), Easter has more than 30 years of federal service. She has been the executive director for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office; the assistant deputy chief of naval operations for manpower, personnel, training and education; the assistant commander for acquisition for Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR); and the deputy program executive officer for tactical aircraft programs. She was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in December 2002.
Easter has an M.S. in engineering management and a B.S. in chemical engineering and is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College and the NAVAIR Senior Executive Man- agement Development Program. She has received the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award and the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award. She is also the recipient of the 2009 National Women of Color Award for Managerial Leadership and the Black Engineer of the Year Award for Professional Achievement.
MCFARLAND STEPS DOWN The Hon. Katrina McFarland retired Nov. 1, 2016, from her position as ASA(ALT) leader, end- ing nine months in the role and a nearly 30-year career in the public sector. As the senior ASA(ALT) official since Feb. 1, 2016, McFarland led the creation of the Army’s Rapid Capabilities Office and implemented the program management review process, which addressed what she described as “a lot of churn” among program managers that at times diverted them from their regular duties.
“Katrina has done a fantastic job of focusing the department’s efforts on the challenges of acquisi- tion, on streamlining acquisition and on bringing Army modernization efforts to the forefront,” said Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning.
Knowing that as one of President Obama’s political appointees, she would be with the Army for a short time, McFarland said, she focused on what she felt she could contribute. “A lot of them were about programs, capability, process, practice, pretty much all-around things I had sort of targeted. I went in to the chief and the vice and the acting secretary, and ... said, ‘Here’s what I think I should be doing. Do you have anything different?’ They gave me a couple of additional items to pull together.”
In the program management review process, when a program was proceeding according to plan, program managers would have the latitude to make decisions on their own, freeing them from
repeatedly having to return to higher authorities and stakeholders to explain their decisions. This established more uniform expectations of how they should be executing their programs, McFarland said. “So the burden of how many reviews, how many times they go up to the Hill, how many times they are trying to convince somebody who is new in the organization, is limited. That allows them freedom of motion,” she said.
Over the course of her career, McFarland also served as assistant secretary of defense for acquisition, president of the Defense Acquisition University and director for acquisition for the Missile Defense Agency. She received an honorary doctoral degree in engineering from the University of Cranfield, United Kingdom; the Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award, the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service Award, the Department of the Navy Civilian Tester of the Year Award and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service.
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