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Henry Stewart, Defense Contract Management Agency Garden City, New York, quality assurance supervisor and Tier II Leadership Development Program manager, is a retired master sergeant who spent 22 years in the Marine Corps before joining the agency.

Aug. 31, 2016

Leadership program aims to discover, cultivate future leaders

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — “Always look for ways to improve and extend your knowledge,” said Henry Stewart. “If you think you are good today, plan on being better tomorrow.”

Scott Crofoot, a Defense Contract Management Agency quality assurance specialist, at Fort Lee, Virginia, said it’s important for agency employees to collaborate better with customers to understand their contract requirement expectations.

Aug. 17, 2016

Detection to prevention: understanding customers’ expectations

FORT LEE, Va. — Surveillance of contractor processes is a more preventive approach than performing inspections to weed out defects that may have already been created.

In addition to their civilian job duties, several Defense Contract Management Agency Garden City employees from New York also serve in the reserve or National Guard. (From left) Cliff Allen, an attorney who is in the Navy Reserve; Doug Nelson, an administrative contracting officer who also serves in the Navy Reserve; Tom Valentino, a quality assurance specialist who serves in the Air Force Reserve; and Malcolm Timoney, a quality assurance specialist who recently retired from the Air National Guard.

Aug. 5, 2016

Employees serve double duty in the reserves, National Guard

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — “I get to work on the world’s most powerful aircraft, travel the world, and further the development of the young men and women who do the same,” said Michael Tibbetts, a DCMA Garden City QA.

Darren Blackwell, Defense Contract Management Agency Operations quality assurance acting director at Fort Lee, Virginia, recently participated in a leadership panel discussion in May at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama. Blackwell, who considers himself a DCMA ambassador, has been with the agency for 15 years and mentors employees to help them excel in their careers.

July 19, 2016

DCMA Operations QA director speaks at Air War College

Darren Blackwell told Air War College students about DCMA and offered leadership lessons learned throughout his career.

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