EDWARDS EMPLOYEES HONORED.Byline: Daily News EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - Two Edwards Air Force Base employees were named winners of awards recognizing outstanding accomplishments among Materiel ma·te·ri·el or ma·té·ri·el n. The equipment, apparatus, and supplies of a military force or other organization. See Synonyms at equipment. Command contracting workers. Melissa Petter received the non-supervisory category of the Secretary of the Air Force Professionalism in Contracting Award. Deanna Wright Deanna Wright (born January 11, 1980 in Ocala, Florida) is an American actress and former fashion model. Early life Deanna Wright was born 11th January 1980 to Robert and Sharon Duncan. won the science and technology category for Outstanding Contracting Civilian GS-11 and below. The awards recognize the outstanding individual, team and organizational accomplishments among Materiel Command contracting workers. ``These awards and the accomplishments within our Edwards contracting community represent the hard work and dedication of all our contracting professionals,'' said Karen Zang, Air Force Flight Test Center's contracting deputy director. Petter and Wright are scheduled to attend the Annual Contracting Awards Banquet on April 4 to receive their awards. As a contract officer with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Petter awarded $14.9 million in contract actions. She also led the negotiating team for the Missile Defense Missile defence is an air defence system, weapon program, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception and destruction of attacking missiles. Originally conceived as a defence against nuclear-armed ICBMs, its application has broadened to include shorter-ranged Agency's more than $50 million Micro Satellite Propulsion Experiment program, which demonstrates the configuration of propulsion technology. Petter also received the Air Force Flight Test Center contractors Annual Outstanding Contracting Team Award, Division Civilian of the Quarter for 2nd Quarter of 2005 and 2005 Flight Test Center contractors 3rd Quarter Outstanding Contracting Team Award. Petter served as president of the National Contract Management Association Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Chapter. ``Ms. Petter is definitely a hard worker and focused on customers' needs in supporting the mission and ensures that she facilitates them,'' Zang said. Wright, a Flight Test Center contract specialist, managed a joint-venture contract that supported the Strategic Sustainment/Phase II Boost and Orbit Transfer Demonstration program. She helped reduce the proposed fee for the closing of the joint venture by 42 percent, saving more than $100,000, officials said. Wright pursued the Flight Test Center's first Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Noun 1. indefinite quantity - an estimated quantity quantity, measure, amount - how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify Small Business Innovative Research Phase III Noun 1. phase III - a large clinical trial of a treatment or drug that in phase I and phase II has been shown to be efficacious with tolerable side effects; after successful conclusion of these clinical trials it will receive formal approval from the FDA for a $15 million program to develop advanced paraffin-based hybrid rockets A hybrid rocket propulsion system comprises propellants of two different states of matter, the most common configuration being a rocket engine composed of a solid propellant lining a combustion chamber into which a liquid or gaseous propellant is injected so as to undergo a strong . She produced 40 actions for $9.7 million and administered 46 research and development contracts totaling more than $54 million. ``My winning an award was a good surprise to me,'' Wright said. ``I didn't expect it. I was just working hard and doing my job.'' |
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