AMC presents 2009 Louis Dellamonica awards

The U.S. Army Materiel Command awarded several employees with the Louis Dellamonica Outstanding Personnel of the Year Award during a May 1 awards ceremony at Fort Belvoir, Va.

The Louis Dellamonica Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments that significantly contributed to AMC\'s mission and overarching goals and objectives. Each year AMC selects 10 employees, military and civilian, below the rank of general officer and senior executive service, which meet the established criteria and stand out as model employees.

This award was named in honor of Louis Dellamonica, a general engineer with AMC's Hawthorne Army Depot, Nev. Dellamonica was both the oldest and longest-serving Department of Defense employee before retiring in January 2007 at the age of 94 with more than 65 years of service.

This year's recipients are:

Aca,!Ac Darryl Hampton, Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, provided exceptional program management on multiple projects serving Fort Belvoir, the new Walter Reed facility, Pueblo Chemical Depot, Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile sites, priority one minuteman missile routes, and projects in Hawaii and Guam.

Aca,!Ac Jeffrey M. Kiley, U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, developed a risk assessment tool that allowed, for the first time, contaminated waste to be safely shipped.

Aca,!Ac Dr. Douglas Kiserow, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, co-organized workshops to better connect the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies with the Army, resulting in 35 new research collaborations.

Aca,!Ac James Parker, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command Life Cycle Management Command, is recognized for his exceptional technical expertise and unwavering commitment to personnel and systems.

Aca,!Ac Steven Webb, Sr., RDECOM, deployed to Iraq to provide direct support to the 402nd Army Field Sustainment Brigade where he participated in logistics planning and fielding of equipment and programs at sites throughout Iraq and Afghanistan.

Aca,!Ac Matthew Taylor, TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, is recognized for his commitment and relentless efforts to consistently improve sustainment support for a wide range of key life support systems, to include army field kitchens, laundries, showers, heaters, and the force provider base camp system.

Aca,!Ac William Roche, TACOM LCMC, developed new software and trained others in the use of it, to efficiently and accurately accomplish the evaluation, resulting in an agreement on a total cost reduction of $872 million.

Aca,!Ac Edward Perez, U.S. Army CECOM Life Cycle Management Command, is recognized for his outstanding work on Army force generation requirements for various units across a widely dispersed geographical area with very stringent timelines for accomplishment.

Aca,!Ac Stephen Kovacs, U.S. Army CECOM LCMC, is responsible for the expansion of the Software Asset Management/Consolidated Acquisition and License Management program which has procured and managed more than $45 million in software licenses resulting in a savings and cost avoidance of almost $3 million in the last fiscal year alone.

Aca,!Ac Jane Elliott, TACOM LCMC, is recognized for her significant contributions in the success of the Simplified Non-Standard Item Acquisition Process program. Elliott personally reviewed 12,600 new FMS requirements for SNAP and, as the procuring contracting officer, signed 11,096 awards totaling $53.4 million.

AMC presents 2009 Louis Dellamonica awards

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