WASHINGTON -- More than thirty individuals, teams in addition to organizations were honored alongside the Fiscal Year 2017 Value Engineering Achievement Award inwards a ceremony inwards the Pentagon Auditorium today.
“With formal [Defense Department] programs for value technology scientific discipline dating dorsum to 1954 inwards the Navy’s Bureau of Ships, value technology scientific discipline has played an integral in addition to enduring role inwards accomplishing the DoD mission to furnish a lethal articulation force, to defend the security of our nation, in addition to sustain American influence abroad,” said Kristen Baldwin, acting deputy assistant secretarial assistant of defence forcefulness for systems engineering, keynote speaker for the event.
National Defense Strategy
In the summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis identifies his overstep priorities to generate in addition to sustain the U.S. military machine advantage, she said, which are: edifice a to a greater extent than lethal force, strengthening alliances in addition to attracting novel partnerships, in addition to bringing draw of piece of job concern reforms to DoD.
In the expanse of DoD reform, Baldwin told the respect recipients their personal in addition to squad initiatives inwards using value technology scientific discipline accept “kept footstep alongside the management to alter our mindset, to alter our civilization in addition to our management systems inwards the department, in addition to to modernize our systems in addition to capabilities, in addition to practise efficiencies piece doing so. Your assured steps furnish necessary functions to our forces piece achieving those terms savings.”
Better Reliability, Quality, Safety
Value technology scientific discipline efforts, she added, deliver improved reliability, lineament in addition to security to augment the DoD objective to continuously deliver functioning alongside affordability in addition to speed. The awardees’ efforts besides align alongside DoD’s warfighting in addition to national security missions, Baldwin said.
As component subdivision of the DoD Honorary Awards Program, the DoD Value Engineering Achievement Award honors civilian in addition to military machine organizations, teams, individuals, in addition to programs/projects for demonstrating exemplary value technology scientific discipline accomplishments. The winners are:
Army
-- Program/Project: Project manager, Combat Ammunition Systems.
-- Individual: Chester Marc Dalangin, plan manager, Crew Served Weapons.
-- Team: Watervliet Arsenal.
-- Organization: U.S. Army Aviation in addition to Missile Command.
-- Special: Apache Helicopter Project Manager’s Office, Apache Production in addition to Fielding Product Office.
-- Special: Project manager, Armored Fighting Vehicles.
-- Special: U.S. Army Armament Research, Development in addition to Engineering Center.
Navy
-- Program/Project: Single Coat Paint Systems.
-- Individual: Charles Radvansky, Industrial in addition to In-Service Systems engineer.
-- Team: Cumbersome Work Practices Resolution Team.
-- Organization: Naval Systems Engineering Directorate, NAVSEA 05.
-- Special: Phased Array Ultrasound Technology/Time of Flight Diffraction Program.
-- Special: Virginia Class Submarine Battery Replacement Team.
-- Special: Pressure Rescue Module Battery Improvement Team.
Air Force
-- Program/Project: Air Intercept Missile-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile.
-- Individual: Tracy L. Patrick, chief, Combat Systems Branch.
-- Team: Air Force Materiel Command Federal Acquisition Regulation 16.5 High Performance Team.
-- Organization: Air Force Category Management Program Support Office.
-- Special: Michael W. Sahlu, atomic number 82 engineer, Detachment 3.
-- Special: Col. William Patrick, scheme plan manager, B-2 Division.
-- Special: Col. Christopher B. Athearn, senior materiel leader, Long Range Systems Division.
Defense Logistics Agency
-- Program/Project: DLA Aviation, Aviation Engineering Flaps Project.
-- Individual: Donald O’Flaherty, equipment specialist, DLA Land in addition to Maritime, Value Management in addition to Engineering Division.
-- Team: DLA Aviation, Source Approval Request Team.
-- Organization: DLA Aviation, Engineering in addition to Technology Division.
-- Special: DLA Land in addition to Maritime, Reverse in addition to Sustaining Engineering.
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
-- Special: DTRA Ground-Based Prompt Diagnostics Test Team.
Missile Defense Agency
-- Program/Project: Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Ground Components Product Office.
-- Individual: Mark Murphy, systems engineer, Ground Components Product Office.
--Team: Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Systems Engineering Directorate Value Engineering Team.
-- Organization: Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Project Office
-- Special: Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Logistics Support Value Engineering Team
-- Special Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Missile Production Value Engineering Team.
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