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As the 2019 fiscal year comes to a close, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville personnel are ramping up their efforts. September is when the final Product Delivery Teams work together to get all expired funds off the books and obligated before the end of the fiscal year to the tune of more than $2 billion.
And while things can get a little stressful, they can also get, well, wacky.
The PDTs are made up of program and project managers, engineers, resource managers, architects, contract specialists, lawyers and other technical staff. These teams put in hard work and often extra hours to the programs are delivered and the mission gets done.
Albert "Chip" Marin III, Huntsville Center programs director, told an assembled gathering of employees to remember to take care of themselves and relieve the stress of end of year deadlines. He also reminded them of the end user they really work for – America’s service members.
“If you just think about it what you do gives them a better quality of life in their barracks, in their administrative facilities, in their maintenance facilities, in their training areas,” Marin said. “You allow them to focus on training to accomplish the mission and for those down range in Iraq and Afghanistan you allow them to accomplish the mission.”
Marin told employees that leaning on each other is what will make the difference as they execute the final fiscal year push.
“That’s the absolute great thing about Huntsville Center,” he said. “People are willing to pitch in, do what it takes each and every day to help each other out. And the month of September is when that matters most.”
An annual tradition during year-end efforts has been humor-themed days to help employees blow off steam. This year, Huntsville Center is using “Wacky Wednesdays” to break tension. The first Wednesday of the month was “Hawaiian Shirt Day.”
The rest of September’s Wednesdays include “Alter Ego or Twin/Triplet Day,” an employee favorite “Pajama Day,” and a final “Super Hero Day.”
While a little fun helps ease their burden, Marin told employees there are people counting on them to continue Huntsville Center’s tradition of year-end excellence.
“There are a lot of customers out there waiting on us to get our end-of-year workload done,” Marin said. “At the end of the day, that’s what it’s all about. Huntsville Center providing service to hundreds and hundreds of customers globally.”
Huntsville Center is a unique U.S. Army Corps of Engineers organization. The Center is not defined by geographic boundaries; its missions provide specialized technical expertise, global engineering solutions, and cutting edge innovations through centrally managed programs in support of national interests.
Huntsville Center’s more than 1,000 employees manage nearly 3,000 ongoing projects at any given time. These projects fall into one of five portfolios: Medical, Facilities and Base Operations, Energy, Operational Technology, and Environmental. The portfolios comprise 42 different program areas, as well as six mandatory and six technical centers of expertise, and 17 centers of standardization. Projects are generally broad in scope, require technical expertise, centralized management or are functions not normally accomplished by a Headquarters, USACE organizational element.
| Date Taken: | 09.05.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 09.05.2019 15:49 |
| Story ID: | 338564 |
| Location: | HUNTSVILLE, AL, US |
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