PAYING IT FORWARD C CHRISTINE M. BERG
COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: Joint Program Executive Office for Armaments and Ammunition (JPEO A&A), Project Manager Combat Ammunition Systems (PM CAS)
TITLE: Program analyst team lead YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 12
DAWIA CERTIFICATIONS: Level III in business, financial management
EDUCATION: MBA, Florida Institute of Technology; B.S. in business admin- istration, American University
AWARDS: PM CAS Excellence Award (2020 and 2021); Department of the Army Commander’s Award for Civilian Service (2017); Department of the Army Achieve- ment Medal for Civilian Service (2013)
hoosing the right career and navigating the best path forward can be challenging, unless you have the right education, experience and most of all, a solid support system. Christine Berg has what it takes, but mainly attributes her career advancement to the support of her family,
a network of mentors, business managers and coworkers who have empowered her along her journey and challenged her with opportunities for growth both person- ally and professionally. Now, she’s paying it forward.
“I was very lucky to have people who invested time and energy in me and offered opportunities that I didn’t even realize existed,” she said. “So, as I enter a new phase of my career, where I’m responsible for other people, I’m sharing my knowledge and guiding new team members in navigating their acquisition careers—because I was really lucky to have had people do that for me.”
Berg currently serves as a program analysis team leader within Project Manager Combat Ammunition Systems (PM CAS), where she is responsible for program- ming, budgeting and execution of financial resources currently totaling $1.1 billion across multiple research, development and acquisition appropriations, foreign mili- tary sales, special defense acquisition funding and other service budget authority.
In addition to budgeting and managing funding for her assigned programs, she leads a team of interns, journeymen and senior analysts, overseeing the financial management of various Acquisition Category II, III and IV programs, and serves as the senior financial advisor for several high-priority programs aligned to the Long- Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team in pursuit of Army modernization, in accordance with the National Defense Strategy.
Berg began her career with the Acquisitions Workforce as a summer intern at the Project Director Joint Services. “It was funny because I was supposed to work in the DEVCOM AC [Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center] financial management directorate to see if I would be a good fit for the organization after college, but someone else picked up my résumé in Program Manager Demil- itarization. So, I spent the summer working with that organization doing different types of analyses, and was fortunate that the team leader within the business divi- sion took time to mentor me,” she said. “I’ve moved around a lot in the last 12 years, but I feel like I’ve benefitted from a lot of different experiences.”
It was her dream to work in the financial services sector, but Berg said her early experiences in the acquisition workforce, and opportunities like formal training programs, postgraduate education and developmental assignments, as well as well- defined career paths allowing for advancement made the Army a more appealing choice right from the start. “It was evident that the Army invests in its people, and that was important to me when seeking my first job.”
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Army AL&T Magazine
Spring 2022
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