Recognizing the Retirement of Ms. Lisha H. Adams

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Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Madam Speaker, I would like to pay tribute to Ms. Lisha H. Adams, Executive Deputy to the Commanding General of Army Materiel Command.

Ms. Adams has 39 years of government service experience supporting Army and Joint Force programs, with 35 of those years served at Army Materiel Command. A graduate of the Army Materiel Command Materiel Maintenance Management Intern Program, she has held various leadership positions in acquisition and sustainment, including Logistics Division Chief, Unmanned Vehicle Systems Project Office; Director of Logistics, PEO for Tactical Missiles; and Principal Deputy, G-3, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command. Selected for the Senior Executive Service in January 2011, Ms. Adams also served as the Executive Director, Integrated Materiel Management Center, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command.

In June 2011, Ms. Adams was assigned as the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/4 for Logistics Integration, responsible for sustaining the Joint Warfighter through command and control of supply chain management, depot and National Maintenance Program operations, asset management and distribution, reset, and ammunition/chemical stockpile management.

Prior to her appointment to Executive Deputy to the Commanding General, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Materiel Readiness, where she was the principal advisor to the Office of the Secretary of Defense leadership on policies, procedures and actions related to the materiel readiness of Department of Defense weapons and other materiel systems.

In her current capacity as Executive Deputy to the Commanding General, Ms. Adams is responsible for materiel life cycle management, acquisition support, personnel and resource management, industrial base operations and enterprise integration for a globally reaching command with over 175,000 military, civilian and contractor employees, impacting all 50 states and more than 150 countries.

Ms. Adams earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Birmingham-Southern College and received her Master of Business Administration degree from the Florida Institute of Technology. Ms. Adams is Defense Acquisition Level III certified in Program Management and Lifecycle Logistics. Her awards include the Department of the Army Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service; DA Meritorious Civilian Service Award; DA Superior Civilian Service Award; DA Civilian of the Year; Redstone Chapter AUSA, 2010; DA Integrated Logistics Support Achievement of the Year Award for ILS Management; and the Commander's Award for Civilian Service.

I congratulate Ms. Adams on her retirement and thank her for her service to America.

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