April 2009 Special Report: Army Civilians 

Project engineer and Army civilian Elizabeth Burg was recently named one of the 2009 “Top Five New Faces in Engineering” for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Three Army commands became the first winners of the “Excellence in Education” awards at the Army Management Staff College’s Leadership Symposium Jan. 29.

Army civilians “have stepped up to the plate” and taken over leadership of critical functions,” Army Secretary Pete Geren told attendees at the Army Management Staff College’s fourth leadership symposium held at Fort Belvoir.

The civilian executive deputy to the commanding general of the Army Materiel Command shared ideas on the value of the civilian education system and the need for Department of the Army civilians to change with the changing environment with more than 400 attendees at a special symposium at the Army Management Staff College.