WAVERLY HILL, Georgia (June 13, 2023) – Contracting officials attended the 2023 Product Director Crew Served Weapons Demonstration Day to increase their familiarity with many of the weapons Army Contracting Command-New Jersey procures May 17-18 at the Strongpoint Shooting Complex in Waverly Hill, Georgia.
ACC-New Jersey members Matthew Endrizzi, a procurement analyst, Marlene Sanchez, a contracting officer, and Michael Grace, a contract specialist, got hands-on experience with Army weapons as they became more aware of the mission partners they support as well as the needs of Army Soldiers.
The rare opportunity to get hands-on experiences and live-fire events give contracting professionals intimate knowledge of the product or service being acquired that give American Soldiers what they need to win today. ACC-New Jersey personnel also interacted with static displays and strengthened their working relationships with project managers, industry leaders, small business vendors, and Soldiers who use the weapons.
“ACC-New Jersey greatly appreciates the opportunity to have employees attend events such as this,” said Thomas Dougherty, the ACC-New Jersey executive director. “Having the ability to experience the complex weapon systems on display and being demonstrated firsthand is an invaluable tool in a contracting professional’s arsenal. The understanding of how these weapons serve the Soldier gained by attending events such as this demonstration day aides in the development of contracting professionals better able to execute the mission of the Army Contracting Command and support the Army of 2030 and beyond.”
The focus of the 2023 Product Director Crew Served Weapons Demonstration Day was for industry and government partners to demonstrate future generation medium- and heavy-machine gun efforts and novel technologies to inform government officials.
ACC-New Jersey is a full-service contracting community of professional business advisors horizontally integrated with its customer base. The contracting center provides a full spectrum of acquisition tools and procedures to ensure on-time and quality execution of programs and acquisition requirements. ACC-New Jersey operates at Picatinny Arsenal and Fort Dix, New Jersey.
About Army Contracting Command
The Army Contracting Command is headquartered at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. From food and clothing to bullets and bombs; from tanks and trucks to boats and aircraft; from Soldiers' weapons to the installations where they work and live with their families, ACC ensures Soldiers have what they need to be successful. As the Army's principal buying agent, ACC supports Army readiness and modernization by using best practices and expert-level oversight to provide warfighters with premier contracting support. The command accomplishes its global operational missions with a professional workforce of Soldiers, Department of the Army civilians, foreign local nationals and contractors at more than 100 locations worldwide.
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