[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 143 (Thursday, September 14, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1791]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                     IN HONOR OF LOUIS KEITH DUMAS

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                             HON. VIC FAZIO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 14, 1995
  Mr. FAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Louis Keith Dumas, the 
executive director of the Sacramento Air Logistics Center [ALC] at 
McClellan Air Force Base. Mr. Dumas will be retiring this year after 
more than 30 years of distinguished service to the Federal Government 
and principally the Department of the Air Force.
  As executive director, Mr. Dumas is second in the Sacramento ALC 
chain of command. When acting in the commander's name, he exercises 
broad management authority over all center operations. The Sacramento 
ALC has program management substainment responsibilities for designated 
aircraft and communications-electronic systems, and employs about 
13,500 civilian and military personnel. Mr. Dumas has clearly 
distinguished himself during his long career with the Air Force, but 
his most significant accomplishments may have taken place through his 
leadership and innovation in the high-technololgy field. He worked to 
establish the Sacramento ALC's software engineering division; this has 
placed the center in the elite company of approximately 9 percent of 
the software practitioners and managers in the United States, and among 
only a handful of Government software activities. Through Mr. Dumas' 
personal direction, the Sacramento ALC accomplished a realignment of 
all the center's software efforts and combined them in a single 
software engineering division with a clear mission of becoming the 
Department of Defense's software engineering center of excellence.
  Mr. Dumas has looked beyond national borders to further Air Force 
initiatives. The Air Force and DOD have selected the very high speed 
integrated circuit [VHSIC] hardware description language, or VHDL, as 
its standard. Sacramento ALC has pioneered the insertion of VHSIC 
multichip modules into fielded weapons systems. Mr. Dumas initiated and 
directed a reverse engineering design project for the British Royal Air 
Force [RAF] to demonstrate this technology. As a result, the RAF has 
adopted the VHDL as its standard in place of a particular language 
which the British were developing.
  As a strong proponent of the dual-use concept, I am particularly 
impressed with Mr. Dumas' work in this area. Mr. Dumas, myself, and 
others have worked to establish a casting emissions reduction program 
[CERP] at McClellan AFB. This program is a partnership between 
McClellan AFB and the big three automakers to develop an 
environmentally complaint foundry and associated foundry processes for 
the DOD and the automakers. Metal casting has critical defense 
relevance; almost 90 percent of all manufactured parts for DOD contain 
castings. This agreement could ultimately revitalize the foundry 
process. Related to dual use is Mr. Dumas' strong promotion of 
interservicing as the business of the future by supporting Army, Navy, 
and Marine customers, and other Government agencies in the Sacramento 
ALC's technical centers of excellence.
  I join my colleagues today in honoring Louis Keith Dumas for his many 
years of outstanding service to the Air Force, the Department of 
Defense, and our Nation. Mr. Dumas and his wife, Dolores, have been 
married nearly 40 years and have three children and a granddaughter. I 
wish Mr. Dumas and his wife continued success in all their future 
endeavors.


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