The Acquisition Directorate has issued its Fall 2011 Newsletter, “Delivering the Goods.” It is available as a pdf here.

The news letter includes:

• Information on the third National Security Cutter, Stratton, and her trip up the East Coast where she was toured by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
• The appearance of the MH-60T, a prototype upgrade to the H-60, at the Innovation Expo in Tampa, Fla. The CG is piggy backing the development on an Army program
• An award to the Interagency Alternative Technology Assessment Program that grew out of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
• There is a profile of Giao Phan as the Deputy Program Executive Officer (PEO) and Deputy Director of Acquisition Programs who came to the US as a refugee from South Vietnam.
• And Master Chief Ayers answers a question about changes to the stern ramp system from its original form on Bertholf to its new form on Stratton and relates it to con figuration management.