TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. - An industrial engineer here, who started as an analyst, has been inducted into the Military Packaging Hall of Fame.
Charlotte Lent works in the Packaging, Storage and Containerization Center, which is part of the U.S. Army Materiel Command's Logistics Support Activity. She is the 12th PSCC person to enter the hall.
Lent was inducted at a ceremony earlier this year by John Antal, acting dean of the School of Military Technology, for her accomplishments in the military packaging career field over the last 30 years. The honor is recommended by fellow packaging professionals in recognition of her outstanding duty performance.
Lent also earned the 2008 Handling Achievement Award from the National Institute of Packaging, Handling and Logistics Engineers.
Lent began working at PSCC in 1978 as an operations research analyst. She switched to the industrial engineer field in 1988.
Noteworthy accomplishments include:
Aca,!Ac Developing new hazardous materials testing protocols to comply with United Nations regulations;
Aca,!Ac Key player in the design and testing of a Frozen Specimen Shipping Unit for infectious and other substances for the National Institutes of Health;
Aca,!Ac Preparing the PSCC Lab to become the Department of Transportation's compliance testing source for containers such as 55-gallon drums to make sure they meet specifications for shipping hazardous and other substances.
Tobyhanna Army Depot is the largest full-service Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance maintenance and logistics support facility in the Department of Defense. Employees repair, overhaul and fabricate electronics systems and components, from tactical field radios to the ground terminals for the defense satellite communications network.
Tobyhanna's missions support all branches of the Armed Forces. The depot is the Army Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence for Communications-Electronics, Avionics, and Missile Guidance and Control Systems and the Air Force Technology Repair Center for ground communications and electronics.
About 5,700 personnel are employed at Tobyhanna, which is located in the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania. Tobyhanna is part of the U.S. Army CECOM Life Cycle Management Command, headquartered at Fort Monmouth, N.J. The command's mission is to research, develop, acquire, field and sustain communications, command, control, computer, intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors capabilities for the Armed Forces.
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