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Task Force Begins IMCOM Welcomes New SES Leaders
Community Services
he U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) wel-
Reform Effort Tcomed two new Senior Executive Service (SES) leaders within its
headquarters staff at JB San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, in June.
J. Randall Robinson will serve as the executive deputy to the com-
manding general, while Delia Adams will serve as the command’s senior
contracting executive. The new appointments, an agency spokesman said,
will help drive enterprise strategies and operations that enable the com-
mand to support Army readiness initiatives and priorities into the future.
Robinson has previously held positions within the installation manage-
ment community at the installation level — including as garrison plans
and operations officer and as deputy garrison commander — which has
provided him the opportunity to understand how IMCOM directly contrib-
Thurgood utes to mission readiness.
He also served several tours as director of different IMCOM regions,
n June 21, the Department of Defense and later as the principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Instal-
O(DoD) named Dr. Keith L. Thurgood, a lations, Energy and Environment.
retired Army Reserve major general and former Adams began her contracting career with the Air Force as a vice presi-
commander and chief executive officer (CEO) dential intern. She later served as an advisor for the state government of
of the Army & Air Force Exchange Service Pohnpei in Micronesia, and as contracting officer for U.S. Army Europe
(AAFES), as director of the Enterprise Man- (USAREUR), where she would deploy to the Balkans as an emergency
agement of Community Services Task Force. essential civilian.
The task force spearheads a reform initiative Most recently, Adams was the director of Service Area Office West for
overseen by the Pentagon’s Chief Management the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
Officer (CMO) John H. “Jay” Gibson II.
Although the initial focus of the Task Force POSITIVE PHOTO: SCOTT MALCOM, IMCOM PUBLIC AFFAIRS
is on reform efforts geared to military resale ADDITIONS
— military exchanges and the Defense Com- At a recent
missary Agency (DeCA) — decisions made ceremony at the
by the group will have far-reaching effects on Fort Sam Hous-
many other military quality-of-life programs. ton Theater to
The task force’s work is part of the first welcome the two
phase of DoD’s reform agenda for enterprise new SES leaders,
delivery of all military Community Services Lt. Gen. Kenneth
programs, including morale, welfare and rec- Dahl, USA, IM- Lt. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, USA, left, commanding general, U.S.
reation (MWR), lodging, DoD schools and COM command- Army Installation Management Command (MCOM), swears in
other benefits and amenities. ing general, said the organization’s two new Senior Executive Service (SES) lead-
According to Gibson, “With Gen. Thur- Robinson’s expe- ers: Delia Adams, right, senior contracting executive, and J.
good’s leadership … the task force will evaluate rience with the tac- Randall Robinson, executive deputy to the commanding general.
our potential to generate efficiencies … with a tical, operational
goal of validating and defining our execution and strategic workings of installation management will help the executive
plan for the way forward.” deputy improve how IMCOM serves the Army.
“We’re asking the executive deputy to strengthen and build those neces-
MOVING FORWARD sary relationships at the strategic level — at Headquarters Department of
Thurgood met on the morning of July 9 with the Army,” Dahl said. “It’s also strengthening relationships laterally with the
“five core team representatives from each of other service providers at the installation level. The third piece is strength-
the military resale organizations” as the Task ening relationships with the commands we support — the warfighters.”
Force was officially established as directed in As IMCOM’s senior civilian, part of Robinson’s job is helping the com-
a May 29 memo from Deputy Secretary of mand’s more than 50,000 civilian employees grow professionally to better
Defense Patrick Shanahan. serve at Army installations worldwide.
The core team is expected to perform finan- Robinson said his passion for professional development and service to
cial due diligence and business case analysis the Army is stressed at his Monday morning staff meetings. “I say, there are
for the reform of Community Services over five days left in the week to improve the lives of soldiers and their family
the course of approximately four months. members, and I ask them to look in the mirror and say, ‘Today, I’m going
Thurgood has more than 28 years of military to do my best,’” he said.
service, followed by private sector experience. In As IMCOM’s senior contracting executive, Adams is responsible for an
addition to serving as AAFES commander and annual $4.5 billion portfolio of appropriated and non-appropriated contracts
CEO from 2007 to 2010, he held executive posi- and procurements. She said she looks forward to working with IMCOM
tions at PepsiCo; Sam’s Club; Overseas Military and its mission partners in developing the command’s contract acquisition
Sales Corporation (OMSC); and MedAssets Inc. strategy.
Report by Nate Allen, IMCOM Public Affairs

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