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Defense Contract Management Agency’s Safety and Occupational Health Division wants agency team members to take proper precautions this winter as weather-related vehicle crashes kill more than 6,000 Americans and injure more than 480,000 each year, according to the Department of Transportation. (DCMA Graphic by Stephen Hickok)

Dec. 22, 2016

Safety Gram: The dangers of driving in a winter wonderland

On average, more than 6,000 Americans are killed in weather-related crashes each year.

Air Force Lt. Gen. Wendy Masiello, Defense Contract Management Agency director, recognizes Jim Russell, her deputy, at a Dec. 19 retirement ceremony at Fort Lee, Virginia. Russell retired after 36 years of federal service, mostly with DCMA or its predecessor organizations. (DCMA photo by Stephen Hickok)

Dec. 21, 2016

Russell leaves agency with great history

FORT LEE, Va. — Jim Russell, Defense Contract Management Agency deputy director, recently retired after 36 years of federal service, mostly with DCMA or its predecessor organizations.

Eighteen Defense Contract Management Agency employees and an employee from the Defense Logistics Agency completed Green Belt training Nov. 18. From left: Army Maj. Christopher Center, Jennifer Peoples, Ryan Miller, Annette McDonald, Adriana Kuhr, Jose Melendez, Jennifer Marasco (DLA), Corey Boykin, Joanne Gergle, Joy Davis-Rafferty, Jeff Beaudoin, Aaron Marlin, Jose Cuevas, Elijah Grant, Wilford Fleming, Rob Hanson, and David Breslin. Not pictured are Sonam Chheda and Michael Oberneder. (DCMA photo courtesy of Continuous Process Improvement)

Dec. 15, 2016

Employees graduate from green belt training

These employees can now lead improvement teams.

On Oct. 20, a group of Defense Contract Management Agency Lockheed Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin Marietta employees gathered to retire the Air Force’s 60-ton railroad switch engine 1248. DCMA participants at the event included Air Force Col. Sheri Bennington (left), Martin Marietta, Blair Evans, Tammy Ellis, Marguerite Antoine, Glenda Robertson-Allen, Denise Jones, Shalonda Wilson, Amanda Akin and Sarah Sullivan. Bernard Latimore (back row, left), Leonard Rishell, Donald Runner and LaNorma Shelton-Thomas, gather for a photo in front of switch engine 1248. (Lockheed Martin photo by Todd McQueen)

Dec. 14, 2016

DCMA Lockheed Martin Marietta retires Engine 1248

MARIETTA, Ga. — “This engine, in its way, made a significant contribution to the safety and security of our nation,” said Jim Johnson, DCMA Lockheed Martin Marietta’s Air Mobility Missions chief engineer.

Defense Contract Management Agency General Dynamics Land Systems quality assurance team members David Hobbs and Bill Lucas recently played a key role in the development of Total Enterprise Asset Management System, or TEAMS, online application. DCMA GDLS leadership believes this application will revolutionize their ability to collect, manage and analyze combat vehicle data. (DCMA photo by Brian Hahn)

Dec. 13, 2016

Lima’s TEAMS app transforms data use

“TEAMS enables us to provide real-time, actionable acquisition insight across the entire Abrams enterprise,” said Army Lt. Col. Travis Adkins.

Eleven Defense Contract Management Agency Orlando employees attended a one-day workshop, Product Quality Deficiency Report Workshop, which focused on detection to prevention and other surveillance methods, Sept. 14. Front row: Nadia Aponte, Gregory Abramowitz and Jose Melendez. Back row: Les Jones, Major Yarborough, Paul Giannetti, Carisse Zorrilla-Medina, Tommy Moody, Paul Harrison, and Odin Keller. Absent from photo is Lance Woods and Count Kately. (Photo courtesy of DCMA Orlando)

Dec. 9, 2016

DCMA Orlando employees participate in quality assurance training

ORLANDO, Fla. — “The DCMA Orlando team is comprised of highly skilled professionals who perform quality assurance on several major acquisition defense programs,” said Tommy Moody, a quality assurance supervisor.

Defense Contract Management Agency team members hold a 2016 Combined Federal Campaign poster Dec. 1 at the agency’s headquarters building on Fort Lee, Virginia. As campaigns draw to a close across the agency, employees are running out of time to choose a charity, make a pledge and show some love. (Photo by Thomas Perry, DCMA Public Affairs)

Dec. 7, 2016

Last chance to ‘Show Some Love’

FORT LEE, Va. — As CFC campaigns draw to a close, employees are running out of time to choose a charity and show some love.

Andre Gross, Defense Contract Management Agency’s Emergency Preparedness and Continuity of Operations program manager, provides a brochure on influenza prevention tips to DCMA employees Kermit Rice, Yvette McDuffie, Tom Krenik and Diane Beall during the simulated pandemic influenza exercise, Nov. 15-17, at Fort Lee, Virginia. (DCMA photo by Tonya Johnson)

Dec. 6, 2016

DCMA participates in pandemic influenza exercise

Preparation is key to making sure employees know how to respond during a crisis.

Stephanie Rocha, a software team lead from the DCMA Western Regional Command, is one of the Defense Contract Management Agency employees who passed the Certified Quality Engineer exam this year. (Photo courtesy of Stephanie Rocha)

Nov. 30, 2016

DCMA celebrates World Quality Month

Employees accomplished a lot in the quality assurance area in 2016.

Kimberly Davis (left), a divisional administrative contracting officer at Defense Contract Management Agency Manassas, Virginia, participated in the Department of Defense’s Office of Small Business Programs Rotational Excellence Program. She attended the Navy Gold Coast Small Business Opportunity Conference in San Diego, California, Aug. 23-24, along with Janice Buffler, OSBP’s associate director for Subcontracting Policy, and Anthony Pugh, a defense contractor. (Photo courtesy of Kimberly Davis)

Nov. 23, 2016

Rotational Excellence Program broadens horizons

MANASSAS, Va. — The program is an opportunity to learn more about the Department of Defense and the impact of small businesses supporting America’s warfighters.

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