U.S. Army Installation Management Command welcomes two new SES leaders

By Nate Allen, IMCOM Public AffairsJune 27, 2018

Lt. Gen. Kenneth Dahl (center), commanding general, U.S. Army Installation Management Command, welcomes IMCOM's two new tier-two Senior Executive Service leaders
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JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (June 26, 2018) --U.S. Army Installation Management Command has two new Senior Executive Service leaders within its headquarters staff at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.

J. Randall Robinson and Delia Adams will fill new positions within the IMCOM headquarters staff, which will help drive enterprise strategies and operations that enable the command to support Army readiness initiatives and priorities into the future.

Robinson will serve as the executive deputy to the commanding general, while Adams will serve as the command's senior contracting executive.

Robinson has previously held positions within the installation management community at the installation level such as Garrison Plans and Operations Officer and Deputy Garrison Commander provided opportunity to understand how IMCOM directly contributes to mission readiness. From there, Robinson served as an IMCOM Region Director and later as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment.

At a recent ceremony at the Fort Sam Houston Theater to welcome the two new SES leaders, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, IMCOM commanding general, said Robinson's experience with the tactical, operational and strategic workings of installation management will help the executive deputy improve how IMCOM serves the Army.

"We're asking the Executive Deputy to strengthen and build those necessary relationships at the strategic level - at Headquarters Department of the Army," Dahl said. "It's also strengthening relationships laterally with the other service providers at the installation level. The third piece is strengthening relationships with the Commands we support -- the warfighters."

As IMCOM's senior civilian, part of Robinson's job is helping the command's more than 50,000 civilian employees grow professionally to better serve at Army installations all over the world. Robinson said his passion for professional development and service to the Army is stressed at his Monday morning staff meetings.

"I say, there are 5 days left in the week to improve the lives of Soldiers and their family members, and I ask them to look in the mirror and say, today I'm going to do my best," Robinson said.

As IMCOM's senior contracting executive, Adams is responsible for an annual $4.5 billion portfolio of appropriated and non-appropriated contracts and procurements.

Dahl said the first two job announcements for IMCOM's senior contracting executive yielded unfavorable results.

"I started asking the other senior people in this business why no one wanted to come to San Antonio and they said that talent doesn't exist, you're looking for a unicorn!"

Adams' resume displays the procurement and acquisition experience needed for the position, from execution to policy level positions.

Adams began her contracting career with the Air Force as a vice presidential intern. She later transitioned to advising procurement and contracting policy through private industry for the state government of Pohnpei in Micronesia.

Adams went on to gain greater insight of the Army's needs as Contracting Officer for U.S. Army Europe, where she would deploy to the Balkans as an emergency essential civilian.

Adams' assignment as a senior procurement analyst gave her experience with acquisition policy at the Office of the Secretary of Defense level. Most recently, Adams served as the Director of Service Area Office West for the Veterans Health Administration.

Adams says she looks forward to working with IMCOM and its mission partners in developing the Command's contract acquisition strategy, but she will have to add a new hobby to her resume.

"I'm going to have to start collecting unicorns now; I like that analogy," Adams said.