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DALLAS - The latest group of Defense Contract Management Agency Dallas Keystone and journeyman graduates of the Acquisition Talent Management program were honored recently with a ceremony complete with a processional march to Sir Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance, March No. 1, Opus 39.
“We added the march and the song to give it a special touch,” Army Col. Calvin Bailey, DCMA Dallas commander, said. “We wanted to make this something our employees would enjoy and yet feel pride in what they’ve accomplished.”
The ceremony culminated the graduates’ two to three years of hard work and training on the road to becoming certified DCMA acquisition professionals.
Bailey said the DCMA Dallas contract management office has worked toward the agency’s initiative to have a robust ATM program to supply the agency with future leaders in key positions.
“Our CMO takes the challenge earnestly and works to ensure our ATMs get our very best efforts to prepare them to assume our ranks,” Bailey said. “I think this, and our daily mission execution, demands we do the job right.”
Lorraine Ganaway, DCMA Dallas ATM manager, said, “Our CMO is very fortunate to have a really talented group of graduating employees. They came to us from private industry and other governmental agencies with significant work histories. They worked hard toward the DOD (Department of Defense) mission and our acquisition business. I am just so proud of them.”
Ganaway, along with Mary Coleman, Mission Support Office chief, did the majority of planning for the event.
“This day meant a lot to our graduates,” Coleman said. “Many sacrificed time away from home and weekends working on distance learning courses to complete their acquisition and DCMA training requirements. We wanted to acknowledge and encourage our graduates to keep striving to higher levels of professionalism.”
The DCMA Dallas ATM graduates include contract administrators Jennifer Berry, Sallie G. Coleman, Jonathan G. Blacketer, Jack Hood, Darron Harbert and Thomas Legan; contract price analyst Jonathan E. Askew; cost price analyst Terance Stanton; industrial specialists Eugene W. Cook and Howard Hayes; and quality assurance specialists John De La Garza, Narkesha Brown, Cassandra Coburn, Christopher Allen, Michael Rubner, Bonnie Whitaker, Kami Keel and William A. Lee.
| Date Taken: | 11.14.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 12.04.2012 13:43 |
| Story ID: | 98726 |
| Location: | DALLAS, TEXAS, US |
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