United States Department of Defense

VALUE ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS FOR 2002

Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Mike Wynne and Principal Deputy Director, Defense Systems Spiros Pallas today presented the annual Department of Defense Value Engineering Achievement Awards at a ceremony held at the Program Executive Officers/Systems Command Commanders' Conference at Ft. Belvoir, Va.

Value engineering is a systematic process to analyze functions in hopes of identifying ways to reduce the production or operations cost of systems, equipment, facilities, services, or supplies with the objective to reduce total cost of ownership while retaining required system performance and quality. During fiscal 2001, more than 2100 in-house Value Engineering Proposals and contractor-initiated value engineering change proposals were accepted with projected savings in excess of $768 million.

The Value Engineering Awards Program is an acknowledgment of exemplary achievements and encourages additional projects to improve in-house and contractor productivity. An award winner from each DoD component was eligible for selection in the following four categories: (1) program/project, (2) individual/team, (3) organization, and (4) contractor. Additional special awards were given to recognize innovative applications or approaches that expanded the traditional scope of value engineering use.

The awardees during today's ceremony were:

						ARMY
Program/Project	Colonel James C. Naudain, Precision Fires Rocket and Missile Systems Project Management Office
Individual	Kerry E. Walker, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Organization	U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command
Contractor	Raytheon Company and Program Management Team for Tactical Radios Communications Systems
Special	Mississippi Valley Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Special	Gregory P. Zelnio, U.S. Army Operations Support Command
						NAVY
Program/Project	Value Engineering in Legacy Systems Support Team
Team	NAVAIR Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility Display Console Integrated Product Team
Organization	Atlantic Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Value Engineering Office
Contractor	HBA Architecture Engineering and Interior Design
					AIR FORCE
Program/Project	Electronic Systems Center's Space and Nuclear Deterrence C2 Office, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA and Contractor, Logistics Support Facility of JAYCOR
Individual	Bruce Lehr, Hill Air Force Base, Utah
Organization	746th Test Squadron Team, Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.
			DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Program/Project	Non-Metallic Bushing Sleeve Team, Defense Supply Center Richmond
Individual	Francis Belill, Defense Supply Center Columbus
Organization	Defense Supply Center Richmond
Special	Carmen J. Viola, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia
Special	Robert Schaffer, Defense Supply Center Richmond
				MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY
Program/Project	Lower Tier and Missile Defense Project Management Office
Individual	Mr. Andrew V. Fogle
Special	Richard S. Campbell
		DEFENSE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Contractor	General Dynamics C4 Systems