MTMC works with Transcom on 2001 Congressionals.Leesha Galery had only been on the job a few weeks when she faced one of her first challenges as the Military Traffic Management Command's new legislative liaison. The U.S. Transportation Command legislative liaisons called with a time-sensitive request: Could Galery arrange a meeting with key MTMC MTMC Military Traffic Management Command (US DoD) MTMC Mount Marty College MTMC Micros-to-Mainframes, Inc. (stock symbol) MTMC Middle Tennessee Medical Center (Murfreesboro, TN) operatives? She responded at once. Five working days later, Galery found herself running a meeting with top TRANSCOM TRANSCOM United States Transportation Command TRANSCOM Transportation Operations Coordinating Committee (metro New York, New Jersey, Connecticut) TRANSCOM Transactions on Communications (IEEE) legislative staffers. Their goal? "They wanted an update on any ongoing issues that could affect the organizations within the next year," said Galery. The TRANSCOM .delegation included Mimi Iacono and Lt. Col. Kurt Miller, both legislative affairs specialists. Galery arranged for several top MTMC staffers to brief the visitors on key congressional issues: Container Management and Task Force Fix. A briefing on Department of Defense containers was conducted by Karen Chin, of the Joint Traffic Management Office. MTMC manages more than 10,000 containers for contingency contingency n. an event that might not occur. and ammunition This article is largely based on the article in the out-of-copyright 11th edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica, which was produced in 1911. It should be brought up to date to reflect subsequent history or scholarship (including the references, if any). moves. Chin discussed the Intermodal in·ter·mod·al adj. Relating to transportation by more than one means of conveyance, as by truck and rail: intermodal transport. Equipment Branch's container study and the feasibility of outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. . "I was able to provide answers right on the spot," said Chin. "This meeting was very constructive and a productive way to support the legislative affairs staff." "The medium is not the message--the message is in the text" said Chin. Changes to the existing personal property moving program through Task Force Fix were briefed by Dinah Locklear, Chief, Personal Property/ Reengineering Division. "I enjoyed the chance to participate" said Locklear. "This kind of communication enhances our relationship with the U.S. Transportation Command." "The informal gathering created an "out-of-the-box" atmosphere going directly to the key issues." Galery said she was pleased at the meeting results. "This is really a door that is opening for the Military Traffic Management Command A major command of the US Army, and the US Transportation Command's component command responsible for designated continental United States land transportation as well as common-user water terminal and traffic management service to deploy, employ, sustain, and redeploy US forces on a and U.S. Transportation Command," she said. |
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