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contract wins

Check out the expansion of our Celebrating USDA Financial

MIL blog: Cloud Feed! Management Services win

MIL is pleased to announce our new Cloud Feed blog. Corporate MIL was part of the winning Savantage team recently awarded
blogs are beneficial both to internal and external readers. They a $500M multi-award BPA contract with the U.S. Department
boost search engine optimization, develop relationships with of Agriculture (USDA). Under this contract, we will support
potential and existing clients, and help to both establish and the government’s efforts to achieve program management,
reinforce MIL as an industry leader in our services. implementation, integration, migration, and deployment
Specifically, the new Cloud Feed blog provides insight into our IT objectives for the USDA Financial Management Services Line of
services, Sales Force team, and all Cloud related industry news. Business.
The blog allows MIL employees to view all upcoming events and As one of seven awardees (chosen from a pool of 17 highly
accomplishments for the IT and Salesforce teams. competitive participants), the Savantage/MIL team will work on
Congratulations to the Cloud Feed team! several lines of business, including:
» FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES
» CHECK OUT THE NEW BLOG, CLOUD FEED, HERE! » HUMAN RESOURCES
» FOLLOW THE MIL CLOUD FEED ON TWITTER, @MILCORPCLOUD! » INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES DIVISION
» EXTERNAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT (SPECIALIZING IN AGILE DEVELOPMENT)
Welcome to ETS » PERSONNEL AND PAY
Ultimately, these tasks hold our team responsible for providing
MIL’s Engineering and Technical Services Sector welcomed financial and administrative services, ensuring the USDA
several new staff members in recent months. Please join us in and other agencies are equipped with modern, core financial
greeting our newest hires! management and administrative systems. Additionally, our
Mary Beth Merckson and Brandy Wooten were brought on work will guarantee that USDA is in compliance with federal
board to support NAVAIR’s Central Travel Agency (CTA) at the accounting and systems standards, has a sharp focus on customer
Patuxent River (PAX) Naval Air Station. The CTA project also service, and are fully supported in their mission.
welcomed back Stephanie Millsaps who returned to the MIL A huge congrats to our hard-working team who made this win
Help Desk team. Members of the CTA team are responsible for possible. Our staff for this contract are among the most highly
providing application support to the users of the Defense Travel qualified in their profession and we look forward to providing
System. This includes travel administration support, walking excellent and innovative service to USDA moving forward!
users through document processing steps, providing basic
assistance and guidance related to business rules, and Joint Travel
Regulations compliance issues. Welcome to the team!! On the winning IOCS team
Helena Pogue and Andrew Roth are the first two hires for MIL’s Congratulations are in order to the C4IS Sector on their
recently awarded FAM/RLIST subcontract. Helena serves as a recent Intelligence Operations and Communications Systems
management analyst and Andrew as systems administrator. We (IOCS) Support Services win! As part of the winning FGS LLC
are pleased to welcome them to the MIL family. solution, MIL has expanded its reach into the Naval Air Warfare
And lastly, the following new hires are providing support to the Center Aircraft Division with a new requirement for project
RDT&E contract at PAX River: management and organizational and acquisition engineering
support services in support of U.S Central Command and the
• Michael Nicholson is supporting MQ-25 Joint Intelligence Command Center. The IOCS contract is a new
• Robin Malley supports the Joint Mission Testing Capability requirement worth an estimated $127M over five years. Awarded
Center on August 17, 2017, the IOCS project will be used to provide
research, planning, design, engineering, prototype development,
• Kara Holtzman and Heather Wicks have both joined the software development, integration, testing, installation, and
Triton program technology solutions for efforts identified by NAVAIR’s Special
• Eric Arcadia, Monica Baxter, Domenic Cristaudo, and Communications Research Division to support the Navy, Marine
Cid Shul were onboarded to support multiple programs and Corps, Coast Guard, Department of Defense, and other federal,
projects for the Air Interoperability Center allied, coalition, and other sponsors’ IOC requirements within or
Please join us in extending a warm welcome to one and all!! outside the US.

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