UNCLASSIFIED// ROUTINE R 051423Z JUN 20 MID510001222361U FM SECNAV WASHINGTON DC TO ALNAV INFO SECNAV WASHINGTON DC CNO WASHINGTON DC CMC WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS ALNAV 063/20 MSGID/GENADMIN/SECNAV WASHINGTON DC/-/JUN// SUBJ/ANNOUNCING DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY A+ AWARD WINNERS// REF/A/DOC/UNSECNAV/14MAR2019// REF A IS UNSECNAV MEMO, DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY A+ AWARDS PROGRAM// POC/OCMO/UNSECNAV/COMM: 703-695-9275/E-MAIL: loranji.m.goodrum@navy.mil// RMKS/1. Per reference (a), this ALNAV message announces the Department of the Navy (DON) A+ Awards Program recipients, which recognizes achievement in innovation and agility from across the DON over the past year. 2. The purpose of the DON A+ Awards Program is to act as an overall authorizing framework for a continuous, highly-visible, credible, and sought- after signal of recognition throughout the DON for those who best exhibit the principles of agility and accountability throughout the lifecycle of management. All Naval personnel who have received award recognition over the past year from the Assistant Secretaries of the Navy, General Council, and the Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy are eligible for the DON A+ Award. 3. The DON A+ Award recognizes members of the DON, either working individually or in teams, who positively demonstrate one or more of the following elements of agility in their management of resources such as money, property, people, or information: velocity, collaboration, visibility, adaptability, innovation, humility, skepticism, and trust. Nominations may be submitted anytime throughout the year and will be adjudicated throughout the year on a continuous basis. This years eight A+ Award recipients are: a. Team Award: Robin Howard (Team Lead), Jason Gregory, Beverly Reinharz, Natalie Dahm, Gregory Robinson, Kelly Gibson, Angela Baltor, and John Clark; Marine Corps System Command, Accelerated Acquisition (AA) Team. Ms. Howard and the AA Team executed a workshop with over 180 participants and published a Fastlane Playbook that provided a 60 percent reduction in documentation and delivery of critically needed capabilities up to 6-months faster than originally planned. b. Individual Award: SO1 Bradley Denn, U.S. Special Operations Command, Naval Special Warfare Command, Group ELEVEN. SO1 Denn not only recognized software inadequacies, but provided immediate solutions with little or no impact to the Naval Special Warfare budget, while educating senior leaders on commercially available technology that would be quickly adopted to replace large, inundated systems. SO1 Denn also developed a Virtual Reality prototype that could be demonstrated for key members to better understand Command capabilities. c. Individual Award: Noel Sanqui, Bureau of Medicine, Naval Health Research Center. Mr. Sanquis work as an accounting officer resulted in a dramatically reduced amount of line items on the Active Document Listing by 54 percent over the past year. He worked tirelessly to reduce the amount of Unmatched Disbursements by 90 percent. He also oversaw the development of desk guides for a wide range of accounting functions, resulting in tremendous time savings in staff training. d. Individual Award: Kristen Allen, Navy Reserve Forces Command. Ms. Allen was responsible for Budget Submitting Office 72s successful conversion to both the memorandum accounting system Command Financial Management System, Consolidated (CFMS-C), and general ledger accounting system Standard Accounting Budgeting Reporting System (SABRS). She also led the development of necessary changes to accounting procedures and systems to facilitate accurate accounting and reporting across five major General Fund appropriations. e. Individual Award: Troy Grenier, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command. Mr. Grenier developed an Integrated Program Management evaluation process for government organizations performing Prime Mission Product development efforts. He pioneered a performance monitoring process that allowed the funding/"Grantor" organizations to discretely track and report Earned Value Management-like cost, schedule, and deliverables of Working Capital Fund /"Performers" in a near real time fashion. The result was a dramatic improvement of program status. f. Team Award: Benjamin Michlin (Team Lead), Jarrod Groves, Sean Blackman, Josh Dulos, Dean Lee, Vincent Siu, Ruey-Juin Chang, Gary Williams, Rick Cruz, Charles Yetman, Dan Green, Viral Bhalodia, and John Serrano; Data Engineering and Analytics Group, Naval Information Warfare Center. Dr. Michlin and the Digital Aviation Readiness Technology, Engine team implemented the Performance to Plan mandate to increase fleet readiness and a rapid data-driven decision making process for senior leadership. The team created machine-learning models for determining the monthly number of mission capable jets per squadron by incorporating manning-training-equipment datasets from Naval FA-18 squadrons. g. Individual Award: Melissa Mosley, Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness. Ms. Mosley worked continuously with Defense Financial and Accounting Services (DFAS) on areas requiring improvement by deep diving into the DFAS process and comparing data to internal systems such as SABRS & Standard Accounting and Reporting System - Field Level. She was able to identify steps and processes requiring improvement within DFAS, including but not limited to the order of authorized approver signatures, data elements within Field-Level Journal Voucher forms and logs. The result was a significant improvement in test scores. h. Team Award: Major Adam Yang (Team Lead), Austin Duncan, William Bradley, Jerrod Moore, Charles J. Baumann, Timothy Riemann, Walker Mills, Shannon Winslow, Garbiel Pons, Jeffrey Nadaner, Bob Arant, Tyler Quinn, Valerie A. Jackson, Stephani L. Miller, Robert A. Kocher, Sara Wood, Reilly Wade, and Mark Sable; Destination Unknown Project, Marine Corps University. Major Yang and the Destination Unknown project team assembled a writing and illustration process to develop and publish a graphic novel series that explores future moral, tactical, and leadership challenges in warfare. Destination Unknown relied solely on the talent of individual Marines, and improves the currency of Professional Military Education by connecting with junior ranks on the mediums which they prefer short stories, illustrations, graphic novels, and social media. 4. Additionally, DON A+ Award winners will automatically be forwarded for consideration for the Office of Management and Budget sponsored Gears of Government Awards Program. The DON will have the opportunity to select the most deserving eight individuals or Team representatives (four Navy and four Marine Corps) for this Award, which recognizes the contributions of the Federal Workforce in support of the President's Management Agenda in the areas of mission, service, and stewardship. In addition to being recognized by the Secretary of the Navy, Navy and Marine Corps winners are forwarded for recognition by the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) along with similar award winners from the rest of Department of Defense (DoD). All DoD SECDEF winners will then go on to compete against similar winners from other Federal Agencies at the National level for potential selection for recognition in a White House Ceremony. 5. The DON Office of the Chief Management Officer (OCMO) is the responsible organization for the DON A+ Program. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition) supports OCMO in the administration of the A+. Further guidance will be provided in separate correspondence and through the DON A+ Awards webpage. The DON A+ Awards webpage is located at: https://www.secnav.navy.mil/ocmo/pages/awards.aspx. 6. Released by the Honorable Gregory J. Slavonic, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) Performing the Duties of the Under Secretary of the Navy.// BT #0001 NNNN UNCLASSIFIED//