Daniel P. Elkins is the deputy director for the Mission and Installation Contracting Command Office of Public and Congressional Affairs at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The MICC, a subordinate command to the U.S. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, provides Army commands, installations and activities throughout the nation and Puerto Rico with responsive contracting solutions and oversight in the execution of their missions.
The MICC is made up of about 1,300 military and civilian members at two brigades, two field directorate offices and 30 field-level contracting offices that are responsible for contracting good and services in support of Soldiers as well as readying trained contracting units for the operating force and contingency environment when called upon. MICC contracts are vital in feeding more than 200,000 Soldiers every day, providing many daily base operations support services at installations, preparing 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.
The MICC Office of Public and Congressional Affairs develops and provides public and Congressional affairs policy guidance for MICC leaders and conducts active public information, community outreach and media relations programs to inform and educate the public, internal audience, industry and Congress about the command’s people and mission. The office aims to increase the understanding and support for the MICC’s operational contract support mission and its people through transparent communications to its key stakeholders.
Prior to arriving at the MICC, he served as a public affairs action officer at the Air Force Personnel Center at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, where he was responsible for planning and executing strategic public affairs communications for the Air Force Manpower Agency, Air Force Services Agency and AFPC in support of more than 450,000 personnel.
Mr. Elkins held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility as a career public affairs professional on active duty and as a federal civil servant over the last 34 years. Those include the full spectrum of public affairs duties including writing, photography, civic outreach, media relations, local and national advertising, crisis communications and Congressional affairs. He is a published author with advertorials appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine and National Jurist, and news and technical writings at the Air Force and Army levels as well as in the Army acquisition trade publication AL&T Magazine.
His advanced education includes a Master of Science in Communications from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, and the DOD Joint Course in Communications at Oklahoma University in Norman, Oklahoma. He also possesses a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, and has completed the Office of Personnel Management Seminar for New Managers: Leading People.
| Date Taken: | 01.18.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 12.29.2017 15:29 |
| Story ID: | 260838 |
| Location: | SAN ANTONIO, TX, US |
| Hometown: | CRANFILLS GAP, TX, US |
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