A WINNING TEAM
The Army is honored with three 2022 Defense Acquisition Workforce Awards.
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T
he Army claimed three winners in the 2022 Defense Acquisi- tion Awards, announced in December, recognizing indi-
vidual and collective contributions to the defense acquisition mission.
Army Acquisition Workforce members took home top individual honors in the categories of Financial Management and Acquisition in an Expeditionary Environ- ment, and the Program Executive Office for Soldier Next Generation Squad Weap- ons team was one of five teams that earned a David Packard Excellence in Acquisi- tion Award.
The Defense Acquisition Workforce Awards recognize individual and team accomplishments that support secretary of defense priorities through excellence in acquisition. These 25 prestigious awards honor the achievements of more than 187,300 civilian and military
professionals from across the Department of Defense, including the approximately 32,000 members of the Army Acquisition Workforce.
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT The Defense Acquisition Individual Achievement Award was established to encourage and recognize excellent perfor- mance in acquiring products and services for DOD across 19 acquisition workforce disciplines. Representing the Army among this year’s honorees are Kathleen Single and Maj. Timothy Keilty.
Single received the award for Financial Management, recognizing her manage- ment of over $65 billion in funding for contracts in support of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts. As finance manager for the Joint Program Exec- utive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense’s Joint Assisted Acquisition Team, Single’s
efforts supported the production of more than 1 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, 19 million therapeutics doses, over 2 billion needles and syringes, over 890 million over-the-counter COVID-19 rapid tests, and the development of domestic diagnostic and testing production facilities.
Keilty, assistant product manager for the Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space Search, Track, Acquire, Radi- ate, Eliminate (STARE) Project Office, received the award for Acquisition in an Expeditionary Environment. STARE manages Army air defense artillery and field artillery sensors, equipping and sustaining the global warfighter. Keilty is credited with building and leading a multi-discipline expeditionary team to prepare for NATO contingencies and directly support the presidential draw- down. His efforts resulted in the successful upgrade of the Sentinel radar software and
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