PRT Annual Young Acquisition Professional Excellence Award
Amber L. Caulkins was the winner of PRT's 2011 Staats Award as the Outstanding Young Acquisition Professional.
 



Recent PRT Guest Speakers:

Dan Gordon
OFFP Administrator

David Berteau
PRT Board Director and Senior Advisor and Director, Defense Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS


 

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(Pictured above) Amber L. Caulkins, the winner of the PRT’s 2011 Staats Outstanding Young Acquisition Professional Award, receives the Award Plaque and a $5000 check from PRT Vice Chair, Shirl Nelson, at the NCMA World Congress in July. Ms. Caulkins is Contracting Officer and Team Leader at the Army Contracting Command, Rock Island, IL. From left to right in photo – Charles Chadwick, NCMA President, Ms Caulkins, Shirl Nelson, and Neal Couture, NCMA Executive Director


Winner 2010
Winner 2010


Winner 2006
Winner 2007
Winner 2007
  • Procurement Round Table Elmer B. Staats Young Acquisition Professional Excellence Award

  • Sponsor: Procurement Round Table
  • Award Amount: $5,000
  • 2012 Application: Download The Form.
  • 2011 Winner: Amber L. Caulkins (Contracting Officer and Team Leader, Army Contracting Command, Rock Island, IL)
  • 2010 Winner: Geoffrey Sage (Senior Contracting Officer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
  • 2009 Winner: David S. Hooker (Chief T&E Evaluation Contracting Branch, Air Armament Center, Eglin AFB)
  • 2008 Winner: Lee Crane (United States Postal Service Purchasing Specialist, USPS)
  • 2007 Winner: Christopher Gerfen (Air Force Electronic Systems Command, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts)
  • 2006 Winner: LCDR Kristin Acquavella (Navy) (Pictured below at the White House with OFPP Administrator Paul Denett)
  • 2005 Winner: Mark L. Strawn (Supervisory Contract Negotiator, Chief, Landing Gear Contracting Branch, Department of the Air Force)
  • 2004 Winner: Lee Kair (Director of Strategic Sourcing and Acquisition Systems for the Department of Homeland Security)
  • 2003 Winner: Nancy Gunderson (Acquisition and Contracting Team Leader of the Pentagon Renovation Program)
  • PRT John F. Magnotti Award for Acquisition Mentorship: This one time only award was presented to Patsy Reeves, Chair of the Air Force Contracting Executive Development Panel, on June 8, 2005, at the Federal Acquisition Conference in honor of John Magnotti,
    who founded the Procurement Round Table.
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