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March 23, 2021

Courses push for virtual options in career growth

FORT LEE, Va. — DCMA employees have partnered with other organizations to transition as many training courses to a fully, virtual platform.

Three UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew members conduct training.

March 18, 2021

Stratford team delivers despite COVID ‘Stop Move’

STRATFORD, Conn. — Facing an approaching deadline to load the aircraft on a ship bound for Korea, the Army Utility Helicopter Program Office turned to aircrews from Defense Contract Management Agency Sikorsky Aircraft, in Stratford, Connecticut, for help.

A GPS III satellite begins launch as its rockets fire.

March 11, 2021

DCMA LA takes lead on NSSL affordability

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The June 2020 Department of Defense National Security Space Launch mission helped DCMA and Space Force get closer to proving a money-saving concept.

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March 8, 2021

March marks Women’s History Month, employee-driven change

FORT LEE, Va. — This month celebrates women, an aerospace engineer’s BEYA recognition, the power of employee-driven change, and much more.

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March 3, 2021

'Collective effort' drove 20 years of satellite support

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Agency completes mission supporting AEHF satellite development, deployment.

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Feb. 25, 2021

Agency manages critical COVID-19 role

FORT LEE, Va. — When COVID-19 struck, the defense industrial base was declared a critical infrastructure workforce. The production of items essential to national defense would continue, as would DCMA’s support role. With the pandemic altering America’s factory floors, the first question asked was how?

Graphic showing DoD warfighter support workers from now and World War 2.

Feb. 10, 2021

DCMA Boeing Seattle: Ensuring warfighter lethality since 1921

SEATTLE — On June 10, 2021, DCMA Boeing Seattle will celebrate 100 years of continuous service to the warfighter. It is the government’s oldest continuously serving plant representative office, or contract management office.

An F-15 aircraft engine burns bright during a test.

Feb. 2, 2021

APO P&W converts garbage into gold

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — A DCMA jet-engine component technical review of “scrap” found the material could be returned to service, saving the government $6 million.