The U.S. Army acquisition community held its 2010 U.S. Army Acquisition Corps (AAC) Annual Awards Ceremony Oct. 24 at the Westin Alexandria, Alexandria, VA. The event, annually themed “Celebrating Our Acquisition Stars,” recognizes the uniformed and civilian professionals who work tirelessly behind the scenes to acquire and procure the weapons, information, and equipment that combatant commanders and their Soldiers need to execute decisive, full-spectrum operations in support of overseas contingency operations.

 

Dr. Malcolm R. O’Neill, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology (ASAALT) and host of the event, addressed the crowd of more than 400 people, saying, “We are here this evening to showcase the significant achievements of the outstanding military and civilian members of the Army Acquisition Corps and the greater Army Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Workforce. It is my privilege to witness the outstanding work of these acquisition professionals and to know firsthand of the great things they do for our warfighters.”

 

U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center (USAASC) Deputy Director COL William Boruff presided over the event as Master of Ceremonies.

The 2010 AAC Annual Awards ceremony recognized 130 nominees. Nominees and winners follow by award category, with the winners’ names highlighted in bold text.

  

2010 Army Life Cycle Logistician of the Year Award

  

James Ables, U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC)

Steven Chetty, Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO) Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)

Patricia Durham, Aviation Center Logistics Command

Allen Evangelista, PEO Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (STRI)

Douglas Haskin, PEO Enterprise Information Systems (EIS)

Michael Henry, Tobyhanna Army Depot

Patricia Huber, U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command (JMC)

Clarissa Lane, PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Sensors (IEW&S)

Gary Marquez, U.S. Army Sustainment Command (ASC)

Marianne McCooey, U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC)

Paula Nilsson, PEO EIS

Carrie Patches, PEO IEW&S

LTC Lewis Phillips, PEO Integration

Steve Potts, PEO Missiles and Space (MS)

Brian Sharkey, PEO Ammunition

Calvin Simpson, CECOM LCMC

John T. Smith, PEO Aviation

Mary Wakefield, PEO Ammunition

Alonzo White, JPEO Chemical and Biological Defense (CBD)

LTC Gary Wright, JPEO CBD

  

2010 ASAALT Contracting Noncommissioned Officer Award for Contracting Excellence

  

SFC Andrea Dailey, 901st Contingency Contracting Battalion (CCB), 638th Senior Contingency Contracting Team (CCT)

SFC Jerry Dysick, 409th Contracting Support Brigade (CSB), 903rd CCB, 643rd CCT

SSG April Johnson, 677th CCT

SFC Dellaria Martin, 413th CSB, 617th CCT

SSG Marquiesha McKenzie, 411th CSB

SFC Mario Murray, 411th CSB

MSG Jason Pitts, 413th CSB, 618th CCT

SSG Kayann Walker, 409th CSB

  

2010 Secretary of the Army Excellence in Contracting Award--Barbara C. Heald Award

  

Amber Caulkins, U.S. Army Contracting Command (USACC), Rock Island Contracting Center (RICC)

Walter O. Epps, USACC, 412th Contracting Support Brigade

Tina Grove, USACC, RICC

Sandra Kim, Regional Contracting Office, Hawaii

Amy Sentner, USACC, CECOM LCMC Contracting Center

  

2010 Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Continuous Process Improvement Award

  

Field Service Representative Rightsizing for Project Manager Night Vision/Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition Project Team, PEO IEW&S

Full Materiel Release Process Ground Munitions Project Team, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition Policy and Logistics

HELLFIRE Missile Repair Project Team, PEO MS, Project Manager Joint Attack Munition Systems

Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Requirements Process Project Team, PEO Combat Support and Combat Service Support (CS&CSS)

Systems Integration Facility Storage Capabilities Project Team, PEO EIS

  

2010 Department of the Army Research and Development Laboratory of the Year Awards

  

U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC)

U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC) Laboratories, MRMC (Laboratory of the Year (Small Laboratory))

U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center, U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM) (Management Award (Small Laboratory))

U.S. Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences, AMC

U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Technical Center, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command

  

2010 Secretary of the Army Acquisition Director, Project Manager, and Product Manager of the Year Awards

  

Acquisition Director of the Year at the Lieutenant Colonel Level

LTC Jason Craft, Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), Milwaukee

LTC James Patrick Delaney, U.S. Army Developmental Test Command

LTC Tonie Jackson, USACC

Product Manager of the Year

LTC James Choung, JPEO Chemical and Biological Defense, Joint Project Manager Guardian, Product Manager Force Protection Systems

LTC Keith Flail, PEO STRI, Project Manager Constructive Simulation, Product Manager Warrior Training Integration

LTC Jason Galindo, PEO MS, Product Manager Battle Command Systems Integrated Fire Control

LTC Richard Hornstein, PEO Command, Control, and Communications-Tactical (C3T), Product Manager Battle Command

LTC Terrence Howard, PEO IEW&S, Product Manager Robotic and Unmanned Sensors

Tami Johnson, PEO EIS, Product Manager Transportation Information Systems

LTC Peter Lozis, PEO Ammunition, Product Manager Countermine and Explosive Ordnance Disposal

LTC Samuel Peterson, PEO Integration, Product Manager Network Systems

LTC Scott Rauer, PEO Aviation, Product Manager Kiowa Warrior

LTC Michael Sloane, PEO Soldier, Product Manager Soldier Clothing and Individual Equipment

LTC Brian Tachias, PEO CS&CSS, Product Manager Sets, Kits, Outfits, and Tools

LTC Mike Thurston, JPEO JTRS, Product Manager Ground Mobile Radio

LTC John Withers, Missile Defense Agency, Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Fire Control and Communications

Acquisition Director of the Year at the Colonel Level

COL John Ellis, DCMA, U.S. Army Modernization Program

COL Theodore Harrison, Expeditionary Contracting Command, 410th CSB

COL Earl Noble, PEO EIS

Project Manager of the Year

COL Michael Cavalier, PEO MS, Project Manager Joint Attack Munition Systems

COL Gregory Gonzalez, PEO Aviation, Project Manager Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Chris Grassano, PEO Ammunition, Project Manager Maneuver Ammunition Systems

COL Joseph Grebe, PEO IEW&S, Project Manager Distributed Common Ground System-Army

Mike Padden, PEO C3T, Project Manager Mobile Electric Power

COL Kevin B. Peterson, PEO CS&CSS, Project Manager MRAP Vehicles

COL John Wendel, PEO Integration, Project Manager Infantry Brigade Combat Team

COL David Williams, Joint Project Manager Chemical-Biological Medical Systems

  

2010 Army Acquisition Excellence Awards

  

Individual Sustained Achievement Award

Brian Almonrode, ASC, Distribution Management Center

Lisa Billman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Fort Worth District

Jeff Forgach, PEO C3T, Project Manager Force XXI Battle Command Brigade-and-Below

David Fox, DCMA, Combat Vehicles, BAE York

John Fox, USACC, Joint Munitions and Lethality Contracting Center

Dwayne Griese, USACC

Claude Higginbotham, PEO MS

Harmony Hunsanger, USACC, U.S. Army TACOM LCMC Contracting Center, Research and Development Armaments Contracting Division

Karen Kelly, DCMA, Dallas

Kyle Kriewaldt, AMC, TACOM LCMC, Joint Manufacturing and Technical Center

MAJ John Todd Masternak, PEO Ammunition, Product Director Non-Standard Ammunition

LTC Fritzgerald McNair, JPEO JTRS, Network Enterprise Domain

Paul Mehney, PEO Integration

MAJ Kevin Moore, DCMA, Space Sensors and Communication Operations

Leonardo Ojeda, JMC, Lake City Army Ammunition Plant

Farhat Shah, CECOM LCMC, Software Engineering Center

MAJ Gregory Soule, PEO IEW&S, Project Director Army Special Programs Office

COL Frank Steinbugl, DCMA International

Lynn Warner, USACC, National Capital Region Contracting Center (NCRCC)

Equipping and Sustaining Our Soldiers Systems Award

Acquisition Cell Team, RDECOM and ATEC

Acquisition Directorate, PEO Integration

Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Directorate, ASC, 402nd Army Field Support Brigade Center for Health Care Contracting, U.S. Army Medical Command

DCMA, Combat Vehicles, BAE York Team, Ground Systems and Munitions Engineering Data Team, RDECOM, ECBC

Fire Suppression Refill Station – FMM3 Integrated Product Team, PEO CS&CSS, Product Manager Sets, Kits, Outfits, and Tools

Integrated Logistics and Supportability Team, PEO IEW&S

Joint Robotic Repair and Fielding Branch, PEO Ground Combat Systems, Joint Project Office Robotic Systems

Light Armor and Equipment Developmental Test Team, ATEC, U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center

Light Utility Helicopter Product Office, PEO Aviation

M-ATV Vision Enhancement Effort, RDECOM, U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC)

Network Enterprise Domain Acquisition Directorate, JPEO JTRS

PEO Ammunition Integrated Product Team for Standard Data Documentation Initiative, JMC, Commodity Management Directorate

Product Manager Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance On-the-Move, U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center

Project Manager Combat Ammunition Systems Insensitive Munitions Team, PEO Ammunition

Product Manager Joint-Automatic Identification Technology Acquisition Team, PEO EIS

Project Manager Mobile Electric Power Assessment Team, PEO C3T

Stryker Armor Enhancement Team, ATEC, U.S. Army Evaluation Center

Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Survivability Army Technology Objective Program, TARDEC

Worldwide Satellite Systems Program Team, USACC, CECOM LCMC Contracting Center

Yuma Test Center MRAP Vehicle Team, ATEC, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground

Information Enabled Army Award

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Reporting Tiger Team, USACE, Jacksonville District

Net-Centric Branch Test Technology Directorate Team, ATEC, U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center

Net-Centric Tiger Team, ATEC, White Sands Test Center

Product Director Global Positioning System Total Package Fielding Team, PEO IEW&S

Program Directorate Counter-Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar, PEO C3T

U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity Study Team, RDECOM

Wideband Networking Waveform Development Team, JPEO JTRS, Network Enterprise Domain

Transforming the Way We Do Business Award

Business Management Office, USACC, TACOM LCMC Contracting Center

Chief Information Office/Chief Knowledge Office, PEO C3T

Enterprise Expansion Team, PEO EIS, Project Manager Logistics Modernization Program

Forward Deployment Services Cell, USACE, Middle East District

Information Management Technology Team, JPEO Chemical and Biological Defense, Joint Project Manager Guardian

Integrated Logistics Support Center Materiel Fielding and Training Directorate, AMC, TACOM LCMC

National Infantry Museum Support Services Team, Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Directorate of Contracting, Fort Benning

NCRCC Huachuca Branch Chiefs, USACC

Non-Standard Ammunition Team, PEO Ammunition, Project Manager Maneuver Ammunition Systems

Quality Management Team, JMC, Iowa Army Ammunitions Plant

Task Force Observe, Detect, Identify, and Neutralize Systems Integration Team, PEO IEW&S, Project Manager Aerial Common Sensors

UH-60A/L/M Product Office, PEO Aviation, Utility Helicopter Project Office