Eighteen Army applications representing all five categories of the re-oriented 2002 President’s Quality Award (PQA) Program were sent by the Strategic Management and Innovations Division (SMID), Office of the Chief of Staff, Army, to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Quality Management for review and forwarding to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), administrator of the Program.  

There were seven finalists selected from the 98 total applications received at OPM for the 2002 PQA Program.  They were:

• Dept of Transportation, FAA, Logistics Center

• Defense Dept. 55^th Wing, Offutt AFB

• DoD National Imagery and Mapping Agency (Nebraska)

• DoD Health Affairs, Military Health System

• Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management

• EPA, Financial Office

• The Department of Labor

The winners, announced at a later time and honored at the PQA Ceremony on Monday, 25 November 02, at Ronald Regan Bldg, Washington, DC, were:

• Defense Dept. 55^th Wing, Offutt AFB

• DoD National Imagery and Mapping Agency (Nebraska)

• Dept of Transportation, FAA, Logistics Center

The Office of Personnel Management received a total of 98 applications for the Program.  The new PQA Program now focuses on the five government-wide initiatives of the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) at www.whitehouse.gov/omb/mgmt-gpra.  The Program will recognize organizations for their performance and results in any or all of the five following categories:  Strategic Management of Human Capital, Competitive Sourcing, Improved Financial Performance, Expanded Electronic Government, and Budget Performance Integration. 

The participating Army organizations were:

Category 1:  Strategic Management of Human Capital:  linking management of human resources to mission objectives, and using strategic workforce planning.

• XVII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg
• Directorate of Logistics, Fort Hood
• Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield

• U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command Armament, Research, Development and Engineering Center

• U.S. Army Great Plains Regional Medical Command

• Fort Benning, Directorate of Contracting
• U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center

Category 2:  Competitive Sourcing:  achieving efficient and effective competition between public and private sources to generate significant savings and performance improvements.

• Headquarters, Training and Doctrine Command, Commercial Activities Directorate

Category 3:  Improved Financial Performance:  improving accountability to the American people through audited financial reports. 

• U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion & Preventive Medicine

Category 4:  Expanded Electronic Government:  making it simpler for citizens to receive high quality services from the Federal government, while reducing the cost of delivering those services.

• U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command Armament, Research, Development and Engineering Center

• U.S. Army Medical Department Activity, Fort Stewart

• U.S. Army Medical Department Activity, Fort Benning
• U.S. Army Aviation Center, Fort Rucker, Directorate of Resource Management
• U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command

 Category 5:  Budget and Performance Integration:  integrating performance information review into the budget decisions. 

• XVII Airborne Corps & Fort Bragg
• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense
• Fort Benning, Directorate of Community Activities
• Fort Benning, Directorate of Contracting

 The re-oriented Program’s award is the Presidential Award for Management Excellence.  Organizations selected for recognition by OPM will serve as role models and benchmarks for other government organizations to attain similar success.  In August 2002 subject matter experts evaluated the 98 applications, in part, by the results attained and the transferability and sustainability of the improvement, sharing of those best practices and providing significant leverage in creating a government that is citizen-centered, results-oriented, and market-based.

 In September 2002 a Panel of Judges selected by OPM reviewed the strongest nominations selected by the subject matter experts. 

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Please address any questions to the Army Program Manager for the 2002 President’s Quality Award Program.

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Last revision: 18 Aug 2008