Inspiring a teenager who is struggling with math, lacking financial resources and waffling about career choices, to dig into a daunting course of studies in order to become a STEM professional is understandably challenging. Now consider tackling that challenge in the mid-pandemic, socially distanced, technologically demanding world of virtual education.…...
Fort Meade Community Celebrates Approval of Education and Resiliency Center
It took nine years of planning, a $3.6 million capital campaign, multiple redesigns, meticulous processing of an 800-item requirements list and exhaustive collaboration with five garrison commanders, numerous on-post agencies and innumerable community members, but the transformation of Fort George G. Meade’s historic Kuhn Hall into a modern Education and…...
Acquisition Guidance Series – U.S. Cyber Command, June 11, 2020
With well over 200 registrants, the latest installment of FMA’s Acquisition Guidance Webinar Series showed our community’s great interest in learning more about contracting with U.S. Cyber Command. The webinar featured Maj. Gen. John B. Morrison Jr., Chief of Staff of U.S. Cyber Command; Sharothi Pikar, Command Acquisition Executive/J9 Director;…...
Fort Meade leadership discuss challenges and advances on post
From a global pandemic to a housing shortage to surprisingly high bids for construction, Fort George G. Meade has been wrestling with a range of operating challenges. At the Fort Meade Alliance Annual Meeting on June 18, however, garrison leadership described how they are meeting those challenges and strengthening Fort…...
FMA Foundation Awards Annual McCreedy Scholarship to Nathan Sucgang
The FMA Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 Colonel Kenneth O. McCreedy Scholarship is Nathan Sucgang of Meade High School. FMA Foundation President Deon Viergutz presented Nathan with a sign commemorating the scholarship at his home, accompanied by Jim Hopper of Meade High School’s Homeland Security…...