Annual Awards Program.

The annual ASMC awards program is designed to recognize outstanding achievements and contributions to the Society and the profession of military comptrollership. Forms are located on the ASMC Web site.

Individual Achievement Award

An ongoing awards program presented annually to individuals who have been nominated for outstanding accomplishment within one of the functional fields of Comptrollership. Areas for recognition are Accounting and Finance; Analysis and Evaluation; Auditing; Budgeting; Comptroller/Deputy Comptroller; Education, Training and Career Development; Manpower Management; Resource Management; and Intern/Trainee.

Team Achievement Award

This award is presented to reams of four to fourteen individuals, within or across comptroller disciplines. Criteria include impact on the way the organization, DoD financial community, U.S. Coast Guard, National Guard, or Reserve establishment operates. The award category recognizes outstanding ream performance, accomplishments, adoption of study results, outcome or savings, and excellence in the advancement of military comptrollership.

Essay Contest

Three awards are presented for outstanding essays on a specified topic. The winning essays are published in the Armed Forces Comptroller magazine. The topic for the 2000-2001 annual program was "Challenges to Military Financial Management in the Future."

Editorial Award

This award is presented to the authors of the best articles published in the four issues of the Armed Forces Comptroller magazine in the year preceding the National PDI.

Research Award

This award recognizes individual or team efforts resulting in a specific written product that encapsulates the research effort, finding, and recommendations. Awards are given to reports deemed to be significant or singularly outstanding.

Members' Continuing Education Program

Grants are provided to members of ASMC to aid in financing their academic endeavors.

Scholarship Program

Monetary scholarships are presented to graduating high school seniors who have demonstrated outstanding leadership skills and academic achievements.

National President's Awards

Each year, the National President of ASMC recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the Society and/or the military comptrollership field.

Chapter Competition

This award program is designed to encourage chapter programming that fulfills the mission of the Society. Chapters compete in their size category and are awarded points in eleven different fields of programming. Areas of competition for which chapters obtain points include membership, manuscripts, educational activities, monthly meetings, awards programming, newsletters, sponsorship of new chapters, publicity, research, community service, and reporting.

Membership Growth

Three awards are given to chapters that achieve substantial percentage or actual membership growth. All chapters with membership growth are eligible. In addition, a Recruiter of the Year is chosen in each chapter size category.

Community Service

This program rewards a chapter's sustained effort in service to its community. Chapters must complete a minimum of one year of continuous voluntary service or demonstrate leadership in organizing, implementing, and/or administering a continuous voluntary service program.

Corporate Member

This award recognizes a corporate member for outstanding contributions made to a local chapter and the national organization in the furtherance of the goals of the chapter and the Society. Nominee must have been a corporate member for at least two consecutive years.

Chapter Leadership

This award is designed to recognize outstanding members who have demonstrated their commitment to the advancement of the Society at the chapter level.

Newsletter Competition

Awards are presented for the chapter newsletters that best foster internal chapter communication and professionalism. Awards are based on content and quality of presentation.

Five Star Competition

This award is presented to any chapter that sets a standard of effort for well-rounded chapter performance. The chapter must report throughout the year in areas of administration, meetings, and newsletters. The competition is divided into two categories, Distinguished and Meritorious, with different requirements for each.

Accounting and Finance

Major Command Headquarters or Higher

Distinguished

Captain Joseph P. Price, Kosovo

Captain Price provided 42,000 peacekeepers with "three hot and a cot" in four theatre locations. He was instrumental in developing several IT initiatives for KFOR, including automating KFOR financial systems, delivering a financial database capability to Kosovo, and implementing swipe cards for messing, billeting, and soldier accountability. He implemented NATO financial procedures, including warehouse partnering and commodity management to optimize critical storage and customer satisfaction. His efforts to improve cash management and funds control increased efficiency and greatly improved internal controls and security.

Distinguished

LTCOL Gerard W. Kolaski

Meritorious

Mr. Charles P. Kullhem, DFAS Denver Center, Denver, CO

Mr. Kullhem led efforts to consolidate installation accounting for nearly 80 security assistance offices worldwide into Denver Center. His efforts also led to the standardization of accounting policies, processes, and procedures across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Unified Commands, and the Defense Security and Cooperation Agency entities that compose the Security Assistance Organization. This consolidation and standardization saved numerous work-years and significantly improved the quality and timeliness of the reports provided to our customers.

Meritorious

Mr. Thomas A. Marcou, DFAS, Arlington, VA

Mr. Marcou developed and implemented new accounting and reporting processes for the United States Special Operations Command (USSO-COM) and the United States Transportation Command (US-TRANSCOM). The new processes enable these two key DFAS customers to improve accountability, manage resources better, and ultimately to provide better support to the warfighter. Mr. Marcou also worked on system improvements for USTRANSCOM's $4.2-billion Transportation Working Capital Fund. The improved system will support greater data analysis and more accurate and timely reporting.

Unit Under a Major Command

Distinguished

SMSgt Dennis A. Baker, 21st Comptroller Squadron, Peterson AFB, CO SMSgt Baker provided the leadership and motivation necessary for the exceptional performance of the Comptroller staff, including management of 84 budgets in excess of $2 billion, processing of nearly 40,000 travel vouchers and over 105,000 military pay documents. He has been a champion of customer service improvement, ensuring timeliness, accuracy, and personal commitment for all processes. He led travel reengineering efforts, resulting in a 25 percent reduction in paper processing and reduced payment times. He was also a key member of the SAF/FM Strategic Planning sessions, resulting in the development of published core competencies and a mission and vision statement for Air Force comptrollers.

Meritorious

Ms. Harriet A. Graville

United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT

Ms. Graville has been the accounting expert for cadet fund management for over 23 years. In 2000, she coordinated all personal financial activities for over 850 members of the Corps of Cadets, including setting up bank accounts, bill paying, advice on taxes and saving, and negotiating starter loans at well below market rates. She also managed all of the account auditing and reconciliation for the cadet pay accounts, including pay withholdings for food services, books, computers, uniforms, and other cadet support activities. She was also instrumental in transitioning cadet accounts to a new computer system that enabled her to develop a complete four-year cadet budget.

Meritorious

SSgt Craig Steven Rosengarten

White House Communications Agency, Washington, D.C.

SSgt Rosengarten led agency accounting functions for a $70-million operations and maintenance and procurement program to support secure and non-secure communications at the White House. In fiscal year 2000, he led accounting support for 320 presidential trip sites in 49 states and 23 countries. His duties included estimating and reviewing costs for satellite, radio, and ground communications; prompt payment of vendors; and coordination of billing with the Secret Service and White House operations.

Analysis and Evaluation

Major Command Headquarters or Higher

Distinguished

SMSgt James R. Cunningham, HQ AIA, San Antonio, TX

SMSgt Cunningham's review and reporting of numerous program budget decisions were instrumental in providing financial planners sufficient time to research alternatives to pending changes. SMSgt Cunningham provided in-house teaming to budget and program analysts to ensure that they received the necessary skills to improve budget, analysis, and planning capabilities in support of management's decision-making mission. He provided pertinent analytical and budget data for flag-level briefings.

Meritorious

Mr. John M. Vollmer, Defense Transportation Service, Scott AFB, IL

Mr. Vollmer undertook a massive research, planning, and coordination effort to test financial implications involving multiple agencies' moving and billing cargo over multiple modes of transportation being billed to multiple financial accounts in an effort to improve the Defense Transportation System (DTS). Mr. Vollmer's efforts will impact all branches of the Services as well as DLA and other DoD agencies and are anticipated to quadruple the already identified $1.8-million cost avoidance. He identified several major inefficiencies in DTS financial processes that inhibit efficient operational decisions; once the processes have been corrected, customers and operators will have the flexibility required to optimize the DTS.

Meritorious

Mr. Lance E. Wright, DFAS Internal Review, Seaside, CA

Mr. Wright developed innovative duplicate contract payment detection programs both within contract payment systems and across contract and vendor payment systems. Mr. Wright's program screened over 2.6 million payment transactions totaling $106.8 billion and found over 244 duplicate payments totaling over $43.2 million and cross-matched payments from MOCAS, IAPS, STARS OBP, and CAPS. He was also instrumental in the development of "Predator" and "Terminator II" by providing the complex program logic that was the catalyst for these front-end edit applications to identify potential duplicate vendor payments.

Meritorious

Mr. Timothy A. Lanford, DFAS, Charleston, SC

Mr. Lanford developed a Microsoft Access matching program to systematically match problem disbursements against the accounts payable obligated file to identify which problem disbursements were not obligated in the system. Mr. Lanford's program generated reports to assist in resolving problem disbursements by identifying mandatory edit fields that were missing or incorrect for a large volume of unmatched transactions. This allowed three accounting technicians to clear over 200 transactions totaling $4 million in one day instead of one week and resulted in clearing over $80 million in problem disbursements for the Navy.

Unit Under a Major Command

Distinguished

Joann F. Knobloch, HQ AMC, Scott AFB, IL

Ms. Knobloch uncovered numerous errors in dozens of Amended Program Objective Memorandum submissions that were causing less accurate budget projections. Ms. Knobloch identified several shortcomings in the Cost Branch's aircraft cost model that, when corrected, will result in more accurate cost estimates and a better tool for "what-if" scenario analysis. She also assisted in the development of the cost per flying hour factors to be included in the annual submission to the Air Force Cost Analysis Improvement Group.

Meritorious

GySgt Leanda M. Moore, MCAS, Cherry Point, NC

GySgt Moore identified and resolved problems in an accounting and automated travel order writing system, which resulted in the recoupment of over $1 million in O&M,N funds. GySgt Moore redesigned the Commanding General's inspection program for financial management and de-conflicted a myriad of fiscal procedures within the Wing Comptroller, Group Fiscal, and Squadron Fiscal offices, thereby achieving increased fiscal efficiency that freed up over $1.5 million for other mission critical needs. She also identified and reduced prior-year unliquidated orders by 98.5 percent and prior-year outstanding travel obligations by 98.2 percent through financial restructuring of two groups within the Wing.

Auditing

Major Command Headquarters or Higher

Distinguished

Mr. Jeffrey S. McMullen, U.S. Army Europe, Kosovo

Mr. McMullen is recognized for his problem-solving approach and solution-oriented audit work during three voluntary deployments to Macedonia and Kosovo to support Task Force Falcon. He identified problems and assisted the staffs to create practical solutions for property accountability and contracting operations. He was praised on customer feedback forms for his professionalism, team-based approach, and knowledge of business best practices. His multiple deployments came at the request of field commanders.

Meritorious

Ms. Gwendolyn Logan, Air Force Audit Agency, Randolph AFB, TX

Ms. Logan is recognized for her personal expertise and outstanding management of the audit function. Her branch produced 44 percent of the audit products for her division, including the top two projects. Five Air Force-level audits significantly changed business practices and saved over $42 million in such diverse areas as base capital improvement projects, A- 76 studies, recruiting methods, slot machine management, and civilian long-term training.

Meritorious

Ms. Linda H. Tanner

Naval Facilities Engineering Command, North Charleston, SC

Ms. Tanner is recognized for her innovative methodology and standard-setting work in the audit of the $100-million Navy Family Housing Program in the Southern Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Her audit report and the managerial training and operating improvements that it recommended are now models for the other three divisions.

Unit Under a Major Command

Distinguished

Mr. Joseph A. Ritzel, Air Force Audit Agency, Wright Patterson AFB, OH

Mr. Ritzel is recognized for his audit work in reducing the Air Force's budget requested by $98.5 million by improving the accuracy of the calculated requirements for the C-17 aircraft's F117 engine. He identified opportunities to reduce safety stock and to more accurately assess estimates for flying hour and engine repair times, and he benchmarked best practices for computing spare engine needs. His audit methodology and recommendations are now being applied to other types of aircraft.

Meritorious

Mr. Daniel D. Miller, Air Force Audit Agency, Hill AFB, UT

Mr. Miller is recognized for his keen observations of the unique use of an automated canopy-polishing operation at Hill AFB while working on an unrelated issue. He recommended a follow-up audit and determined that the expanded, systematic use of this process could save the Air Force $268,000 annually if implemented on just one type of aircraft. The approach is now being expanded to other types of aircraft.

Meritorious

Ms. Cynthia J. Branham, Mr. Mitchell L. Creel, Ms. Luvenia L.M. Shuman

Air Force Area Audit Agency, Robins AFB, GA

Ms. Branham, Mr. Creel, and Ms. Shuman are recognized for their innovative early-stage evaluation of the "Back to Basics" quality initiatives at WR-ALC. The auditors conducted extensive benchmarking of quality programs in private industry and throughout the Air Force and wide-ranging interviews with WR-ALC personnel. Their efforts changed management's implementation strategy and greatly improved the quality program's chances of success.

Meritorious

Maj James M. Williams

Budgeting

Major Command Headquarters or Higher

Distinguished

Major Daniel D. Cappabianca

HQ Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB, CO

Major Cappabianca is recognized for his ability to master his new job as ICBM financial analyst, where he worked on a portion of the Air Force Space Command Program and incorporated analyst duties for three of the bases. He tagged $650,000 as excess for use on CINC priorities and made $15 million in depot-level reparable funding available for repairs to critical systems. His experience and ability to take on a challenge are truly exceptional.

Distinguished

Ms. Mary M. Britt, Aerospace Command and Control & Intelligence, Langley AFB, VA

Ms. Britt is recognized for her outstanding financial control of the Aerospace Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center's $83-million operating budget despite a 60 percent turnover. She established training for new analysts, sustained operations, and was praised for her financial management briefings. Additionally, she developed a financial plan with 16 different program element codes totaling over $150 million, analyzing deficiencies and ensuring no mission show stoppers. Ms. Britt's abilities to lead by example and to provide support where needed make her a true leader and mentor.

Meritorious

Ms. Kathryn M. Cox

HQ Air Force Material Command, Wright Patterson AFB, OH

Ms. Cox is recognized for her superb efforts as Lead Budget Analyst for a $3.7-billion O&M program at Headquarters Air Force Material Command and the largest Air Force Civilian Pay Program of $1.5 billion. She ensured that work-years were executed to preclude any chance of under-execution. She provided substantive support for the Command's work-force-shaping initiatives by analyzing cost impacts and potential sources of funding support. In the area of financial planning and fiscal distribution, she achieved an overall error rate of less than 0.1 percent in the allocation of over $3 billion in funding among 22 separate funding entities. In addition to her superb financial planning and management skills, Ms. Cox excelled in establishing key professional relationships, providing mentoring to colleagues, and representing the Command at key senior agency and Washington-level forums.

Unit Under a Major Command

Distinguished

TSgt Michelle A. Belmont

99th Comptroller Squadron, Nellis AFB, NV

TSgt Belmont is recognized for her superb performance as a Financial Analyst with a consistent track record of success in highly challenging and difficult projects. She is the squadron's choice to manage the largest and most difficult programs. In the extended absence of the resource advisor in the FY2000 4th quarter, she single-handedly managed and closed out the Civil Engineering and Military Family Housing programs to ensure that mission requirements were met, while achieving 100 percent execution. During a recent operational readiness exercise, she was recognized as a "Superior Performer" for the multitude of tasks she performs with continuous high results. She was a key member of the team selected to prepare Nellis AFB financial plans, and she played a lead role in developing sound and complete justifications for an $81.8-million budget and close to $50 million in unfunded requirements. In addition to TSgt Belmont's outstanding performance on the job, she also actively participates in base and local comm unity volunteer programs. She has been recognized for her numerous contributions and fundraising support by organizations such as the Boy Scouts, local schools, and the Nevada Association for the Handicapped.

Meritorious

Captain Timothy E. Dunster

White House Communications Agency, Washington, D.C.

Captain Dunster is cited for his role as Chief, Financial Management Division, Resource Management Directorate, White House Communications Agency. Captain Dunster totally restructured the Agency's corporate resource management system to provide the most effective allocation of the communications operations and maintenance and the procurement programs for the White House. He worked effectively in a joint environment, garnering support and consensus from service resource advisors to produce the Agency's best-ever fiscal year closeout. Captain Dunster consistently dealt successfully with unforeseen events and crisis situations supporting high-profile White House requirements. He is noted for his forward thinking and planning, skills that he used in developing complex and creative financial planning and negotiating strategies addressing White House requirements in staff travel and vice presidential travel and in providing expert advice to other support agencies such as the Secret Service.

Meritorious

SSgt Ervin B. Dodrill, Jr.

Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Wright Patterson AFB, OH

SSgt Dodrill is cited for his role as Financial Analyst, Resources Directorate, Air Force Institute of Technology. SSgt Dodrill has provided exceptional performance in the support of 14 resource advisors with the planning, budget, and execution of the AFIT $84-million Education Program. SSgt Dodrill served as the key AFIT liaison with DFAS, and he was instrumental in the timely resolution of all financial and accounting discrepancies. As the lead analyst for the Graduate School of Engineering and Management, he was instrumental in the reconciliation of outstanding sponsor billings, leading to AFIT's most successful closeouts in several years. SSgt Dodrill excels in performing all his responsibilities, and he is highly respected within AFIT for his willingness to go the extra mile to achieve mission performance.

Major Command Headquarters or Higher

Distinguished

Mr. Michael D. Frechette, Naval Submarine Base, Groton, CT

Mr. Frechette is cited for his role as Deputy Comptroller for Commander, Navy Region Northeast (CNRNE). Mr. Frechette has effectively harmonized the financial operations of a large, geographically dispersed command covering a seven-stare area. His use of the World-Wide Web to disseminate financial information marks him as an innovative steward of public funds.

Unit Under a Major Command

Distinguished

LCDR Edward N. Eng

USCG Integrated Support Command, Honolulu, HI

LCDR Eng is cited for his role as Comptroller of the U.S. Coast Guard's Integrated Support Command (ISC), Honolulu, Hawaii. LCDR Eng led efforts that transformed a failing financial organization into a shining example of excellence and good stewardship. His successful deployment and use of information technology are models for similar efforts.

Meritorious

LTC Byron L. Cherry

U.S. Army Special Operations, Fort Bragg, NC

LTC Cherry is cited for his role as Comptroller, U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command. Major Cherry's outstanding management of financial resources fur 69 units in 26 states and deployed locations has led to improved unit operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Meritorious

Mr. Allen E. Davis

U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Leavenworth, KS

Mr. Davis is cited for his role as Director, Resource Management, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. Mr. Davis adeptly managed the financial resources fur two major Army commands and a U.S. Navy installation. In addition, his deployment to the Balkans resulted in improved host/tenant relations with Hungary

Meritorious

Ms. Diana L. Struckmeyer

U.S. Navy Submarine Training Facility, Norfolk, VA

Ms. Struckmeyer is cited for her role as Comptroller for the U.S. Navy's Submarine Training Facility, Norfolk, VA. Her leadership and professionalism have resulted in assignments to lead critical studies to improve the support services that directly impact on Command effectiveness.

Meritorious

Captain David L. Peeler, Jr., 23rd Fighter Group, Pope AFB, NC

Captain Peeler is cited for his role as Comptroller for the 23rd Fighter Group. He restored the credibility and effectiveness to an organization that had been failing in its mission. Captain Peeler initiated numerous business process improvements to better support operational units at lower costs.

Education, Training and Career Development

Major Command Headquarters or Higher

SMSgt Maurice (Rory) Chapman, Randolph AFB, Texas

Distinguished

SMSgt Chapman is the Non-commissioned Officer-In-Charge of the Funds Control & Policy Division of the Comptroller Directorate at Randolph Air Force Base. At the request of the Air Force Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary; Financial Management and Comptroller, SMSgt Chapman co-wrote the Air Force Resource Advisor Tutorial, which places trainees in a virtual installation office to negotiate complex problems through interpretation of financial management processes. SMSgt Chapman also rewrote sections of the Financial Management Staff Officer Course and championed two tracking devices essential to accountability--the Resource Advisor Tracker and Support Agreement Tracker.

Meritorious

Ms. Mary L Beal, Fort Stewart, GA

Ms. Beal is a Financial Analyst in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff Resource Management Division of the Comptroller Directorate. As part of the CP 11, Multi-Disciplined Financial Analyst Initiative within the Department of the Army, Ms. Beal defined the Comptroller Accreditation Program, which provides a mechanism for documenting current and future civilian and military financial management professional skills and credentials, She incorporated the Comptroller Accreditation Program into the new CP 11 Army Civilian Training, Education and Development System (ACTEDS) Plan.

Meritorious

SMSgt Edward J. Pridmore

Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB, IL

SMSgt is the Headquarters Air Mobility Command (AMC) Transportation Working Capital Fund analyst. His superb skill in educating and training his team of over 50 resource advisors led to his selection as the AMC representative to test WinBas 3.0, a new program for financial planning. SMSgt Pridmore identified several enhancements to the program prior to installation. He provided guidance to all AMC bases and trained the HQ financial staff in its use.

Unit Under a Major Command

Distinguished

LTC Terry L Ross

Professional Military Comptroller School, Maxwell AFB, AL

LTC Ross is an instructor at the DoD Professional Military Comptroller School (PMCS). LTC Ross has been hailed as a "Top Drawer" educator, providing outstanding graduate-level education to 259 DoD financial managers. He was handpicked by the PMCS Director to travel to Europe to provide financial management instruction to an audience of international officers. LTC Ross developed a new DoD Installation Comptroller Seminar, which received superb feedback from students. He was one of the first USAF officers to earn the CDFM certification.

Meritorious

Ms. Rhonda J. Franz, U.S. Army Engineer District, Baltimore, MD

Ms. Franz is the Budget Officer for the Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District. As a career-broadening experience, Ms. Franz accepted a developmental assignment to create a financial training program for Corps project managers. Ms. Franz developed an Internet-based reference guide for funding authorities and fiscal law specific to work performed by the Corps. This reference guide provides a decision-malting tree, enabling the user to link statutory authority, fiscal policy, and local use; flat instance, Can a project order be used to execute a specific type of effort? Ms. Franz conducted training sessions on use of the Web site, which has been adapted at other Corps of Engineers districts.

Meritorious

TSgt Suzanne M. Signore-Hayes

100th Comptroller Squadron, Mildenhall, UK

TSgt Signore-Hayes is the Unit Training Manager for the 100th Comptroller Squadron, Mildenhall. She has developed numerous programs and tracking mechanisms to ensure quality training for unit personnel. TSgt Signore-Hayes provided detailed financial training to squadron supervisors and other members of the training staff. She developed a comprehensive 12-month Career Field Education and Training Plan (CFETP) training program designed to prevent voids in financial management specialty training. TSgt Siguore-Hayes also developed a comprehensive 12-week Top Dollar Deployment Team Disbursement training program that covered all areas of financial deployment procedures.

Intern/Trainee

Major Command Headquarters or Higher

Mr. Dennis E. Kelley, Jr.

Distinguished

Assistant Secretary of the Navy (FM&C), Washington, D.C.

Mr. Kelley is a Budget Analyst intern in the Department of the Navy's Centralized Financial Management Trainee Program. During 2000, he completed rotational assignments of increasing complexity and consistendy received outstanding evaluations for his achievements, professionalism, and work ethic. In addition to his superb analytical skills, Mr. Kelley was instrumental in developing Web-based applications and automating new budget reporting requirements both within the Department of the Navy as well as during a rotation in the Program and Finance Control (P&FC) Directorate in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller).

Meritorious

Ms. Lenore D. Aragon, Headquarters Unit States Air Forces in Europe

Ms. Aragon accepted a career-broadening challenge this past year by handing the fast-paced budget review cycle for the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). She authored the first USAFE Program Budget Decision (PBD) Process Guide, allowing for a smooth budget review process and a quick education for new members. Additionally; Ms. Aragon created an information-tracking database for PBD information and designed reports to meet management's information needs. As a result of her keen analytical skills and initiative, Ms. Aragon operated as a command budget analyst, filling a critical vacancy. In October 2000 Ms. Aragon passed all three modules of the Certified Defense Financial Manager examination in her first attempt.

Meritorious

Mr. Keith A. Hicks

Secretary of the Air Force (FM&B), Washington, D.C.

Mr. Hicks is a financial intern in the Air Force Budget Office. During his first major "drill" in the Air Force Budget Office, Mr. Hicks briefed the Air Force Operating Budget Review Committee and was singled out as the "example follow." During the Command midyear review, he analyzed and advocated over $400 million of unfunded requirements of two major commands and successfully justified $213 million of priority requirements. Mr. Hicks analyzed programming information for several Air Force business areas and preparing the Budget Estimate Submission to the Office the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). Mr. Hicks was awarded the Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM) certification on September 15, 2000.

Unit Under a Major Command

Distinguished

Mr. Gregory A. Leingang, Wright Patterson AFB, OH

Mr. Leingang is a Cost Analyst in the Comptroller Directorate at Wright Patterson AFB. He researched, designed, and built a master cost collection program used to identify costs associated with various base functions. As the lead Wing Cost Analyst on the Military Family Housing Privatization Team, he researched both civil engineering and cost analysis regulations and quickly learned the essentials of developing an economic analysis. Mr. Leingang's knowledge of accounting and finance systems, combined with his expertise on Activity Based Management, resulted in the development of a computer program that minimizes the labor-intensive manual collection of data from accounting systems.

Meritorious

Mr. Pedro A. Delgado

U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command,

Fort Monmouth, NJ

Mr. Delgado is a financial intern in the Office of the communications Electronics Command (CECOM) at Fort Monmouth, NJ. Mr. Delgado played an instrumental role in securing additional FY2000 Foreign Military Sales (FMS) administrative funds, as well as identifying areas where savings could be generated, thereby alleviating a $1.3-million shortfall. He prepared an analysis of FMS requirements and developed a briefing that he presented to the CECOM Chief of Staff. His briefing provided an overview and current status of the FMS funding shortfall and identified various initiatives that CECOM could implement to effect savings. His recommendations were implemented, and he was successful in justifying a $500,000 FMS requirement.

Meritorious

Ms. Ann M.Jaworowicz

HQ Communications-Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, NJ

Ms. Jaworowicz is an Operations Research Analyst (ORA) intern within the Cost Analysis Division of the Communications-Electronics Command at Fort Monmouth, NJ. Ms. Jaworowicals efforts were routinely performed at a much higher level of complexity than typically expected of an intern. She has supported the PM'S major acquisition programs in many areas, including cost analysis, Earned Value Management, and acquisition. She actively participated in preparing monthly program analyses, supporting contractor reviews, preparing program cost estimates, responding to fiscal funding drills, and implementing key acquisition reform initiatives such as Cost As an Independent Variable.

Resource Management

Major Command Headquarters or Higher

Distinguished

Ms.Vickie Harding and Mr. John R. Smith, DFAS, Charleston, SC

Ms. Harding and Mr. Smith are recognized for their outstanding contribution and innovation in automating the Online Payment and Collection (OPAC) of Government Printing Office (GPO) bills for the Document Automation and Production Service (DAPS). Their efforts reduced a backlog of 33,000 invoices valued at $59 million and saved approximately 2,000 man-hours of work related to the manual key of these invoices. This automated process eliminated entry errors and also the manual research effort required to link GPO data to DAPS accounting lines. The process became standard operating procedure at DFAS Charleston, and the savings and improved accuracy are on-going benefits to both DFAS and the DAPS customer. The efforts of Ms. Harding and Mr. Smith have increased value because the process they developed can be exported to other DFAS locations.

Meritorious

Mr. Steve Trimble,

U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), Alexandria, VA

Mr. Trimble, tasked to automate resource management processes and functions throughout the echelons of AMC, incrementally deployed a Web-based system, RM-Online, that integrated the processes associated with budget and manpower management for both appropriated and working capital funds. The manpower and budget resources include more than 50,000 military and civilians, $18 billion at over 280 locations worldwide. Mr. Trimble adapted an existing program that saved over $7 million in requirements analysis and development costs and over 3,000 hours in the validation process. His adaptation will provide the flexibility to support all major commands in the future. RM-Online provides a unique methodology for linking installations with the appropriate headquarters element, allowing for the quick and accurate dissemination of information.

Unit Under a Major Command

Distinguished

Mr.Terry E. Christoffer

U.S. Coast Guard Integrated Support Command, New Orleans, LA

Mr. Chrisroffer has demonstrated exceptional performance and initiative while serving as the Chief of the Shipping and Receiving Branch. He has been vigilant in conserving financial resources as he routinely seeks out more favorable pricing, even when customers are willing to pay a higher price. In one instance, he made numerous contacts and was able to identify a carrier to ship four trailers of pollution prevention equipment and supplies at a cost of $45,000, which was $75,000 less than the initial government price quoted. He also took the initiative to identify partnering opportunities with the U.S. Naval Support Activity for shipping and mailroom activities that resulted in annual savings in excess of $250,000. Mr. Christoffer's efforts exemplify the highest ideals of public service and stewardship.

Meritorious

Maj.John T. Sacks

66 Rescue Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, NV

Major sacks was the key individual to 66 Rescue Squadron in restructuring the unit's budget process, which included implementing new and improved financial control processes. This included the establishment of a LAN-based "IMPAC checkbook" to prevent cardholders from overdrafting common accounts. His effort provided all personnel with a better understanding of the budget process that finances the unit's requirements. Major Sacks reviewed financial data, identifying over $100,000 of over-obligated funds that were later applied to other squadron requirements. He also produced a 500-page continuity book full of derailed examples and instructions on the office operation that could be used when personnel are deployed. Major Sacks sound fiscal discipline in both planning and accountability has made a strong, positive difference for the Air Force's financial management community.

Team Achievement

Distinguished

Employee/Member Self Service (EIMSS) Program

Gloria A. Cranford

Johanne Nesser

Mary Therese

McCarthy

Patricia McGriff

David Stringer

Sylvja Hanneken

C. Thomas Helt

Pamela Moye

Cathy Cox

Roger Peterson

Diane Crawford

Sue Schallenberg

Eileen Wanger

Meritorious

OASA(FM&C), SAFM-RB

Sharon A. Weinhold

Juan DeJesus

Lisa Jacquet

Sam Brown

Mike Bizila

Gene Meek

Logistics Group Business Office Team

Lisa C. Sweat

TSgt Darin Johnson

Craig M. Frick

SSgt Brian S. Reaser

Chris A. Rock

SSgt Jennifer L. Owens

TSgt Salvador M. Garcia

NAVICP Merchant Credit Card Team

Eileen Chmielinski

Alan Kaminsky

LCDR Michael Kirk

Linda Centofanti

Eileen Englert

Rachelle Roynan

Professional Development

Rock Island

Corporate Member of the Year

Bank of America, Washington Chapter

Chapter Competition

Distinguished                 Meritorious
A-1 Alamo City                Washington
A   Buckeye                   Mount Vernon
B   Ozark                     Fort Knox
C   Green Tree                Amigo
Newsletter
Distinguished                 Meritorious
A-1 Hampton Roads             Alamo City
A   Pikes Peak                Sandhills
B   Middle Georgia            Crown of Maine
C   Thunderbird               Barstow
Community Service
A-1 Hampton Roads             A Kansas City
B   Central NY Leatherstocki  C Magnolia

Membership Awards

New Chapter Growth: NRO

Established Chapter % Growth: Okinawa

Established Chapter Absolute Growth: Washington

Recruiters of the Year

A-1 Alice Rice, Indianapolis

B Linda Velarde, Rio Grande

A Yvonne Dixon, Sandhills

C Elizabeth Gurey, Thunderbird

Essay Contest
1st                 Tommy Lou Teel
2nd                 Melanie Barbret
3rd                 Becky McCutcheon
Chapter Leadership
A-1                 Jeanie Glueckert, Aviation
A                   DeAnna Morales, Gulf Coast
B                   Roy Higgins, Central NY Leatherstocking
C                   John Rand, Green Tree

Five Star Chapters

Alamo City

Amigo

Aviation

Big D

Blue Angel

Bluegrass

Buckeye

Central Florida

Lightning

Central NY Leather-stocking

Central Texas

Charlestowne

Cleveland

Coastal Georgia

Cochise

Crown of Maine

Dixie

Fort Campbell

Fort Knox

Fort Meade

Forty-Niner

Garden City

Great Plains

Greater Atlanta

Greater Omaha

Green Tree

Gulf Coast

Hampton Roads

High Desert

Indianapolis

Japan

Jersey Devil

Kansas City

Land of Lincoln

Las Vegas

Los Angeles

Middle Georgia

Mile High

Montgomery

Mount Vernon

National Guard

Ozark

Picatinny

Pikes Peak

Pioneer

Red River

Redstone-Huntsville

Rio Grande

Rock Island

Sandhills

San Diego

Southside Virginia

Space Coast

Tampa Bay

Thousand Island

Thunderbird

Tri-State

Utah

Washington

Western Maryland