PRT 40th Anniversary Celebration
7 November 2024
The Army Navy Club, Arlington, VA

With gratitude to our keynote speaker:

The Honorable Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force

Participants included PRT Officers, Directors, Directors Emeritus, and alumni Directors; and executives from OFPP, DoD, GSA, NASA, and NCMA

And several PRT Directors offered testimonials

Celebrating four decades of PRT leadership and achievement:

• Sent letters to incoming Presidential administrations, advocating acquisition community consistency

• Transmitted over a hundred documents to Congress and senior Executive Branch officials, including policy positions on significant federal rule-making and acquisition issues

• Authored hundreds of articles, studies, briefings, commentaries, issue papers, and books on acquisition matters

• Presented over 22 annual merit awards, with cash stipends, to early-career federal acquisition professionals

• Convened more than 20 annual invitation-only forums and seminars addressing timely acquisition topics

• Conducted over 250 non-attribution dialogue sessions with federal government executives covering acquisition, legislation, and oversight

• Compiled an acquisition reform library of over 15 reports and panel findings going back to 1955

• Testified before Congress, educated the acquisition workforce, and provided the leadership for congressionally-mandated acquisition study panels