UNCLASSIFIED// ROUTINE R 212013Z DEC 20 MID200000457520U FM SECNAV WASHINGTON DC TO ALNAV INFO SECNAV WASHINGTON DC CNO WASHINGTON DC CMC WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS ALNAV 108/20 MSGID/GENADMIN/SECNAV WASHINGTON DC/-/DEC// SUBJ/ANNOUNCING DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY A+ AWARD WINNERS// REF/A/DOC/UNSECNAV/10DEC2020// REF A IS UNSECNAV MEMO, DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY A+ AWARDS PROGRAM// POC/OCMO/UNSECNAV/TEL: 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 (ASN), 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 of 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 year's eight A+ Award recipients are: a. Team Award: CWO4 Roxan McNamee, Team Lead, Programs and Resources (P&R), Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC). CWO4 McNamee and her team of military and civilian employees developed a Financial Measures of Performance dashboard for identifying and correcting abnormal accounting conditions. The dashboard provides interactive visualizations of critical accounting metrics that satisfy the Commandant of the Marine Corps responsibility for taxpayer accountability. The Financial Measures of Performance Team worked with stakeholders to determine critical performance metrics and worked with the programming team to produce accurate results. b. Team Award: Ms. Peggy Smith, Team Lead, Assistant Program Manager - Marine Corps Systems Command. Ms. Smith's team contribution - when Infantry Combat Marines expressed their frustration with current Federal Procurement List mandated supply sources, ICE teamed with AbilityOne to deliver supplies two months faster. ICE applied its collective knowledge and grit to award eight competitive, best-value contracts during the fiscal year, seven reserved for small businesses, while effectively and efficiently administering other contracts in support of individual Marines and Sailors. All Fiscal Year 2019 efforts, valued at $365.6 million, were awarded on time or ahead of schedule, securing the obligation of expiring funds and guaranteeing that equipment /clothing would be available for Marines in 2020. c. Team Award: Major Zachary Cesarz, Team Lead, P&R, HQMC. The Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) Team are the pathfinders in reforming the Marine Corps Planning, Programming, Budget, Execution, and Assessment process to modernize and optimize corporate governance. PA&E's new Commanders Organizational Risk Estimate Report enables senior leaders to gather, process, and apply organizational information to make informed resourcing decisions, and to understand associated risks to their organizational and enterprise essential missions and tasks. d. Team Award: Major Joni Ong, Marine Corps Systems Command. During this period and in response to the recent Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic, the Task Group Collaboration Team executed a deliberate enterprise migration to Office 365. Providing critical continuity of services, the team worked tirelessly ensuring stakeholders were kept informed, bandwidth was available to meet system demands, technical personnel were in place, and migration of mailboxes and other critical information technology services occurred seamlessly and without interruption to the end user. The migration increased the average user email mailbox size by 10,000 percent and individual storage capability by 7,100 percent while reducing local datacenter requirements by 80 percent. The team's dedicated efforts migrated roughly 151,000 users to Office 365 in record time. e. Individual Award: Mr. Kyle R. Ketchum, Office of the ASN (Energy, Installations & Environment) (ASN (EI&E)). Mr. Ketchum is a collaborative, agile servant leader who established and sustains an organizational climate of continuous improvement and innovation, driving tangible and extraordinary results. These results have motivated critical, impactful changes to the DON business operations and advanced the National Defense Strategy. f. Individual Award: Captain Warren R. LeBeau, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Facilities). Captain LeBeau completed a mission for the DON that had for nearly half a decade, been thought impossible. Despite the direct and focused efforts of many admirals, senior civilians, political appointees, congressional members and staff, and the attention of service chiefs and Secretaries, addressing unexploded ordnance on the territory of Guam festered for over five years. g. Individual Award: Ms. Jessica Rodriguez, Security Specialist (DON/ Assistant for Administration). Ms. Rodriguez made significant contributions to the personnel security enterprise for the Secretary of the Navy staff in Calendar Year 2020. In a review of over 4,000 Secretariat records, Ms. Rodriguez identified over 150 staff whose periodic reinvestigations were overdue, and 550 security records with missing information. She immediately initiated action to initiate reinvestigations, complete records, and comply with management internal control program requirements. h. Individual Award: Dr. Jennifer Rous, Office of the ASN (EI&E). Dr. Rous' professional expertise, breadth of experience, and leadership qualities made positive and enduring impacts within the Department of Defense (DoD), and the DON. Her proactive approach to managing her expansive industrial hygiene, occupational health and environmental health portfolio resulted in the mitigation of environmental and health hazards in military and privatized housing. 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, winners will automatically be forwarded for recognition by the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) along with similar award winners from the rest of the 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 ASN (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 Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy.// BT #0001 NNNN UNCLASSIFIED//