JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (Feb. 18, 2025)—The Mission and Installation Contracting Command hosted a second-quarter fiscal year 2025 town hall Feb. 18, answering wide-ranging questions for well over an hour in Blesse Auditorium, JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
The MICC command group, Col. Freddy Adams, Clay Cole and Command Sgt. Maj. JennyAnne Bright hosted the event, which drew nearly 900 virtual and roughly 200 in-person Soldiers and civilian personnel. The regularly scheduled town hall was the command's second hybrid event of the fiscal year; large-scale MICC events have mostly been virtual since 2020 until Adams' first town hall in October 2024.
Adams assumed command of the MICC in June and was confirmed for promotion to brigadier general in Nov. 2024. The one-star general officer command comprises about 1,500 Soldiers and civilian employees assigned to two contracting support brigades, two field directorates, nine contracting battalions and contracting offices across 30 locations within the continental U.S. that provide contracting support to the Army enterprise.
The overall purpose of the event was to share verified information from reliable sources regarding recent personnel changes announced by the Department of Defense and the Office Personnel Management, while ensuring the workforce remains focused on the MICC’s mission. Despite a rapidly changing information environment, answering workforce questions received through the commander’s anonymous drop box, battlefield circulation –or command visits– across the entire MICC enterprise, and the town hall are each methods Adams implemented to ensure effective, two-way communication within the command.
“We have committed as a leadership team to communicate to you what we know, when we know it, or when we are able,” Adams said, acknowledging that there are a lot of unknowns regarding how some of the new policies will be implemented. The command shared several links with the latest information on updates to personnel policy. “There is a lot of disinformation out there. I would encourage you to go to authoritative sources for your information needs.”
Adams opened the event reiterating his intent for transparency while communicating up and down the chain of command. “What we wanted to do is take an opportunity this morning to tell you what we know, give you an opportunity to ask any questions that you may have of us, and to the degree that we can, we will provide answers to those questions,” Adams said.
Prior to the question-and-answer portion of the event, the team reviewed results from the recent Defense Organizational Climate Survey, acknowledged new hails and farewells, presented awards and recognition to deserving employees, announced the 2025 MICC TOCC video contest winners, highlighted upcoming team building and professional development events and restated the command’s priority lines of effort. Adams acknowledged that his priorities may change depending on any shift in priorities from MICC’s higher headquarters. MICC is a subordinate command of the Army Contracting Command, within the Army Materiel Command, both headquartered at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
Cole has been the MICC deputy since Jan. 2016, serving under five MICC commanders. “The command team is in constant contact with our senior leadership,” Cole further explained their efforts to gain accurate information and pass it on to the workforce as rapidly and as often as they can. “We still have a job to regardless of what goes on around us; thank you all for what you do every day of the week and thank you for making this command the success it is has been and will continue to be.”
Bright has been the command sergeant major and senior enlisted advisor to the command since Nov. 20. She reaffirmed the command’s gratitude to the team for remaining professional, dedicated and committed to MICC’s vital mission. At the end of her remarks, she stressed the Warrior Ethos and asked everyone to heed their oaths of service as well as the Soldier, civilian and noncommissioned officer creeds. The audience erupted in applause after she recited the latter creed from memory.
“I know we are all going to stay committed to our MICC mission to ensure that Soldier –
that warfighter all the way on the frontline– can do what they need to do to support and defend our Nation,” Bright said.
MICC Soldiers, civilians and contractors deliver the power of Army contracting within the continental U.S. strategic support area for Army forces, to ensure a globally dominant land force capability. MICC contracts maintain more than 14.4 million acres of land and 170,000 structures, feed more than 200,000 Soldiers every day, facilitate training for more than 500,000 students and 100,000 conventional forces each year, and a provide countless daily base operations support services at dozens of installations. In fiscal year 2024, the command executed more than 22,000 contract actions valued at nearly $5.5 billion across the Army, including $3 billion to American small businesses. The command also manages the Army’s largest and most complex government Purchase Card Program, administering more than 366,000 GPC transactions in fiscal year 2024 valued at an additional $567 million.
“We can wring our hands, or we can roll up our sleeves,” Adams said, asking the team to remain focused on their mission and impact to the Army through the strength of their unity and shared purpose. He committed to treating everyone with fairness and respect as the command navigates the changes to the environment. “I know we are going to roll up our sleeves and figure out how we can continue to execute our mission, together.”
About the MICC
Headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the Mission and Installation Contracting Command consists of about 1,500 military and civilian members who are responsible for contracting goods and services in support of Soldiers as well as readying trained contracting units for the operating force and contingency environment when called upon. As part of its mission, MICC contracts are vital in feeding more than 200,000 Soldiers every day, providing many daily base operations support services at installations, facilitating training in the preparation of more than 100,000 conventional force members annually, training more than 500,000 students each year, and maintaining more than 14.4 million acres of land and 170,000 structures.
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