‘‘This is a great team effort,” said Robert A. Tolhurst, Jr., JWAC’s Executive Director, speaking to employees and guests during the ceremony.

JWAC’s commander, Air Force Col. Matthew H. Molloy echoed a similar sentiment, saying, ‘‘We have a very happy marriage between the warfighter, the analyst, and the civilian.”

The awards are listed as they were presented.

Christopher Meyer - JWAC Warfighter Support Award

The award honors an individual employee whose dedication and excellence in supporting the warfighter advanced JWAC’s operational goals and objectives and improved its overall support to the Global War on Terror. A research analyst in JWAC’s Science Division, Meyer deployed to Iraq in 2007 where he directly supported JWAC customers. Later, upon his return to Dahlgren, he became the team lead of a group that developed and validated emerging techniques and tools, overcoming several complex problems in the process.

Iraq Support Team - JWAC Award of Meritfor Group Achievement

This award recognizes significant group efforts that further JWAC’s charter, mission, strategic goals, and objectives. The IST consisted of employees from across the command, including workers from the Naval Surface Warfare Center. Together, they worked to solve some of the difficult problems that the U.S. has encountered in Iraq. Despite the ‘‘fast-paced and rapidly changing operational environment,” they achieved ‘‘unprecedented success.” Several team members deployed to Iraq and every team member was recognized for their ‘‘sacrifice, dedication, and professionalism.”

Terry Witt - Individual Awardfor Excellence in Service

This award recognizes an individual whose dedication, customer service, process streamlining, and excellence in providing support made a significant contribution to JWAC throughout the year. A computer scientist, Witt provided solutions for both JWAC and its customers. For instance, among the latter, he ensured that the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group had the necessary tools to enhance deployed performance. Further, Witt was cited for his timeliness - releasing a software solution ahead of schedule - and his efficiency by reducing the necessary maintenance needed to be performed on it.

Logistics Division - Group Award for Excellence in Service

Like the individual award, this award also recognizes dedication, customer service, and process streamlining made by a support group. In addition to more than 20 JWAC employees, awardees also included fourteen BAE contractors who provide janitorial and other services to the command. Among their combined accomplishments, the division completed more than 300 individual moves and changes to offices within the command; performed upgrades to more than 180 printers and 2,500 workstations; surplused 1,400 computers, and published an emergency operations plan. Additionally, the division oversaw the installation and testing of a five megawatt generator, added equipment to JWAC’s gym, and provided daily maintenance on the building as a whole.

IS1 Marion Spencer - Military Member of the Year

The Military Member of the Year Award recognizes E-1 through E-6 enlisted personnel who exhibit outstanding performance, including, but not limited to professionalism, leadership and supervisory skills, physical readiness and appearance, off-duty education and self-improvement, and community service. Spencer ‘‘displayed all the characteristics required to earn this recognition” while assigned to the Afghanistan Support Team. Deploying to Afghanistan last year, she served as a liaison officer between JWAC and its customers. In this capacity, she created a daily report to increase the situational awareness of commanders. Spencer also volunteered at the base’s Youth Activity Center and the Dahlgren School, as well as other activities.

Lt. Michael Jones - Junior Officer of the Year

This award recognizes an officer in the grade O-3 and below who showed leadership, devotion to duty, and professional competence. Jones served as JWAC’s liaison officer to U.S. Central Command, engaging its staff from Tampa, Fla. to Afghanistan and Iraq while also handling the production and delivery of analytical products to overseas customers. He deployed twice to Iraq and his on-the-scene guidance ensured that JWAC’s support to military forces was timely and relevant. Jones also trained other JWAC employees for deployment to Iraq.

Jones is currently enrolled in a master’s of business administration at Old Dominion University and was unable to attend the ceremony. His wife, Corinne, accepted the award in his absence.

Coston Cheatham - Spirit of JWAC Award

The Spirit of JWAC Award recognizes the JWAC employee who consistently demonstrates the command’s core values of honor, courage, and service both at work and within the community. Nominated by his co-workers, Cheatham has a deserving reputation for honesty, dependability, commitment, and cheerfulness who can work with anyone on any project. Besides his strong work ethic, he is heavily involved in the community, coaching little league sports, volunteering at his children’s school, hosting exchange students, and singing in his church choir. As his citation said, ‘‘Coston is the person that we all want on our team! He...gives selflessly, is a quiet leader, friend to all, and always there.”

‘‘He puts service before self in everything he does,” Col. Molloy said.

Jason Theriault - Reginald Gray Technical Excellence Award

This award honors ‘‘Lord” Reginald Gray, a senior research physicist who worked at Dahlgren in the 1970s and ‘80s, who made innovative contributions to science and engineering. Following in Gray’s symbolic footsteps, Theriault, over four years at JWAC, developed a thorough method of analysis to benefit customers. In so doing, he helped prompt the expansion of the service JWAC provides to its customers in the areas of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Theriault worked closely with other government agencies and helped train other analysts.

‘‘I firmly believe that I am here today because I had an idea, which JWAC gave me the opportunity to develop into something that was new,” Theriault said in accepting the award. ‘‘It is still in many ways an idea. It really comes down to the benefit of being just new and different during a time when traditional capabilities are facing some very non-traditional problems.”

Theriault described these as the change in warfare that occurred following 9-11 and how the U.S. is struggling to adapt to those changes.

‘‘The U.S. military and intelligence community has really just begun the task of filling in these idea-voids,” Theriault said. ‘‘This is the opportunity for the analysts at JWAC to create and offer up these new and different ideas that together with many other creative ideas will fill in the gaps under our current tenuous footing.”

Dwayne Holladay - Robert L. Hudson Leadership Award

This award honors JWAC’s first Executive Director and ‘‘is given to individuals whose ongoing leadership and vision assures JWAC will continue to serve the needs of our national decision makers and warfighters in the 21st century.” Holladay leads JWAC’s Information Technology Division, which effects everything the command does. ‘‘IT is the fuel that makes it work,” Col. Molloy said.

Consequently, Holladay’s foresight to understand emerging IT trends proved critical to the command’s overall success. For instance, JWAC plans to start using 200 thin-client desktop clients in the next fiscal year, thereby reducing hardware requirements, improving workers’ efficiency, and saving more than $1.4 million. Holladay was also praised for his managerial skills leading the division’s nearly 70 employees. He empowered them to do their jobs, assigned the right people to the right projects, and removed barriers to success, according to his citation.

‘‘I’m quite humbled and honored,” Holladay told the gathering. ‘‘I’m passionate about what we do here. There’s a very big, strong, dedicated team that backs up everything I do. I’m accepting the award in recognition of what they do.”