[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 4326-4327]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          RECOGNIZING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF CLAUDIA S. KNOTT

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                          HON. JAMES P. MORAN

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, February 13, 2009

  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the 
accomplishments of Ms. Claudia ``Scottie'' Knott, who will retire from 
the Defense Logistics Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, on March 1, 2009. 
Ms. Knott's distinguished government career spans 31 years, and her 
record of achievement during this period reflects greatly upon herself 
and upon the organizations with which she has served.
  Ms. Knott has served as DLA's Senior Procurement Executive/Component 
Acquisition Executive (SPE/CAE) since 2001. Under this position Ms. 
Knott was responsible for the development, application, and oversight 
of DLA acquisition, policy, plans, programs, functional systems and 
operations. She has overall acquisition management responsibilities for 
the Agency including an annual Agency acquisition program exceeding $38 
billion.
  Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Ms. Knott has followed a wide-ranging 
career of increasing responsibility culminating in her appointment as 
Director of Acquisition Management. In 1978, she entered the Federal 
service as a program assistant for the Department of Agriculture and in 
1981 was selected into the Defense Logistics Agency Intern Program. In 
1993 she was accepted into the Industrial College of the Armed Forces 
(ICAF), Defense Acquisition University. After ICAF Ms. Knott went to 
work for the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition 
Reform/Electronic Commerce). In 1997, Ms. Knott became the Assistant 
Executive Director, Procurement at the Defense Logistics Agency.
  In 2003, Ms. Knott was selected by the Director, Defense Logistics 
Agency, to be the Deputy Director, Logistics Operations. As the deputy, 
she was responsible for DLA's supply, distribution and reutilization 
and marketing business areas which resulted in over $30 billion in 
sales and services to the United States military and federal customers. 
Ms. Knott served as the Deputy Director, Logistics Operations until her 
appointment to Director, Acquisition Management in 2007, a principal 
staff code in DLA, as part of a reorganization to elevate contracting 
and contract management.
  Ms. Knott attended Florida Institute of Technology, Chapman College 
and the National Defense University and is the recipient of numerous 
special achievement and performance awards including the Distinguished 
Civilian Service Award in September 2008. Ms. Knott was selected as one 
of the Federal Computer Week Top 100 IT Professionals in 1999 and 2001. 
She is an honorary lifetime faculty member of the Army Logistics 
Management College. Ms. Knott has also received the Vice President's 
``Hammer Award'' for business re-engineering in 1996 and has been 
confirmed into the Distinguished Order of Saint Martin, the patron 
saint of Logistics.

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  Madam Speaker, I wish to commend Ms. Claudia S. Knott on her 
retirement from Federal civil service. She epitomizes the dedication 
and professionalism that make our Federal government a model all over 
the world.

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