“I see myself as the conductor,” said Lisa Marie
Clark, director, Defense Contract Management Agency BAE
Systems. “The people here are the orchestra.”
The orchestra performs in Nashua, N.H., at the state’s
largest employer. As a streamlined contract management
office, DCMA’s staff here provides full contract
administrative services while reporting through DCMA
Boston.
Ensuring uniform items meet quality standard
requirements is a job with an immediate impact on the
warfighter, and a job Defense Contract Management Agency
quality assurance specialists take very seriously.
Parallel yellow lines run the floors of an aircraft
engine plant in East Hartford, Conn., creating sidewalks
for workers. Familiar red stop signs at intersections
add to the illusion of a near spotless indoor city,
rather than a modern defense contractor shop floor.
Defense Contract Management Agency quality assurance
specialists travel these sidewalks along with contractor
employees, observing both the physical product creation
and, increasingly, the data used to ensure the final
product meets customer needs.
Agencyinsight makes
difference in Acquisition Enterprise
This issue of the Communicator focuses on what DCMA
does every day to deliver better buying power to
America’s taxpayers and improve the Acquisition
Enterprise. It highlights the new ways our employees are
finding to manage workflow and leverage the depth of
knowledge our unique position in the acquisition system
provides.
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if credit is given to the magazine and the author. For general
facts, frequently asked questions and media contacts for the
Defense Contract Management Agency click
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