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Archive: 2021

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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.

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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.

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March 15, 2021

My DCMA: Marina Racz-Distler, management analyst

GARDEN CITY, N.Y — My DCMA showcases the Defense Contract Management Agency’s experienced and dedicated workforce and highlights what being a part of the national defense team means to them. Today we meet Marina Racz-Distler.

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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 5, 2021

Closing contracts, returning dollars

FORT LEE, Va. — New center will return millions of dollars to the services.

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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.

March 1, 2021

My DCMA: Toniette Wood, financial specialist

BALTIMORE — Teaser: My DCMA showcases the Defense Contract Management Agency’s experienced and diverse workforce and highlights what being a part of the national defense team means to them. Today we meet Toniette Wood.

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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?