An assistant program manager for logistics responsible for nearly $14 million in savings to the Navy and Marine Corps was among three individuals and 13 teams that received Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Commander’s Awards here Dec. 7.
Five teams received NAWCAD Innovation awards, and one team received the newly established NAWCAD Patent of the Year Award.
The NAWCAD Commander’s Award acknowledges team and individual efforts and excellence directly related to the NAWCAD mission. The awards recognizes achievements in specific problem areas, a breakthrough enabling mission accomplishment or outstanding fleet support in the areas of technical, business or leadership excellence.
The innovation award is given to teams and/or individuals who achieve NAWCAD corporate goals. These awards show the value that NAWCAD places on innovation in the technical, acquisition support, system life cycle support and corporate/institutional support categories, according to Rear Adm. Randolph Mahr, commander, NAWCAD, awards presenter.
The individual commander’s award winners are: Francis “Bud” Salmon, T64 engine assistant program manager for Logistics, Logistics (AIR 6.0) Pax River; Farhad Choudhury , program manager, Program Management (AIR 1.0) Lakehurst; and Brian Wasel, Engineering (AIR 4.1) Pax River, assistant program manager for Systems Engineering for the Acquisition Category 1D MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) program.
The NAWCAD team awards include:
The Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System Team for the successful first launch of an F/A-18E from the new electromagnetic launcher at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ. The team matured the technologies beyond the “state of the art” through a disciplined systems engineering process to design, build and test a shipboard solution that will deploy onboard the USS Gerald Ford Class aircraft carriers beginning in 2015.
The Aviation Biofuels Team, for successfully completing qualification testing of a 50/50 JP-5 biofuel blend for use in naval aircraft.
The Strike Planning and Execution Systems Program Office (PMA-281)’s Naval Mission Planning Systems Team for balancing requirements, schedules and costs for more than 28 Type/Model/Series aircraft to transform an unfunded high priority project to fund all component development efforts in execution year.
The Naval Air Warfare Training Systems Division in Orlando, Fla., for its Mentoring Campaign during the summer of 2010. With its slogan, “IMentor…Do U?” This initiative increased mentoring participation at NAWCTSD from four percent to 48 percent during the past year.
The V-22 Propulsion and Power Integrated Product Team for forming the AE1107 Measured Gas Temperature Increase Team, in response to an urgent need to improve V-22 engine time-on-wing and reduce engine total ownership costs. The team evaluated raising the MGT limit of the AE1107 engine, thereby allowing more deterioration margin. In seven months, the team developed, qualified, tested and fielded upgraded engines for an initial Field Service Evaluation, an unprecedented design change.
The P-8A Integrated Test Team for demonstrating technical, business and leadership excellence through a series of initiatives in cross-functional/cross-organizational teaming, leveraging of commercial best test practices and prior test program lessons learned.
The CH-53K Day in the Life modeling team for demonstrating business, team, and leadership excellence by developing a new method to more accurately assess the relationships of the ITT manning versus the desired flight test execution rates. The team worked with numerous test personnel, captured their inputs and brought stakeholders together to create
