September 2008 Special Report 

Managing and caring and developing and assigning our civilians is something we haven’t done very well,” the deputy secretary of the Army and senior personnel officials across the service told AUSA NEWS.

Former Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey worked to bring the same kind of training and opportunity and management of our civilian workforce that we bring to our military.

The Army’s Civilian Education System has providing the starting point “to nibble at that cookie” for workers interested in promotion in a way that is similar to the education systems in place for officers, warrant officers and noncommissioned officers.

A new Defense Department program for senior-level civilians seeks to develop the skills and competencies needed to lead the 21st century national defense effort.

A Tobyhanna machinist improved working conditions in the machine shop by devising a plan to organize 25,000 tools using 6S processes.

An Army Research Laboratory (ARL) engineer is one of 29 federal government employees selected as a finalist for a Service to America Medal by the Partnership for Public Service.

The Army Materiel Command (AMC) is expected to begin a one-year pilot program early next year to determine whether the Army should develop a standard issue uniform for deployed civilians.

The U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), the Army’s largest civilian employer, is home to two men who’ve made keeping American troops in the fight a family affair.

Cheryl Wilkerson has worked as a Department of the Army civilian for more than 20 years, but she wanted to do more for soldiers, so she volunteered to go to Kuwait to work as a team chief on wheeled vehicles.

The most difficult part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process is handling the situation with civilian employees, according to Craig E. College, deputy in the office of the assistant chief of staff for installation management.