28.11.07 17:19 Age: 2 yrs
HSATM Partner wins 2007 Malcolm Baldridge Award
By: Sharen Glennon
ARDEC, one of the HSATM partner companies, has won the Malcolm Baldridge award 2007. Congratulations to one of the Howe School's Alliance for Technology Management's partner companies.
Joe Lehman credits the Alliance for the many ideas it gave ARDEC for improving its management processes, and for being a factor in ARDEC'swinning of previous awards based upon Baldrige criteria (see letter below).
President George W. Bush and Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez announced on 20 Nov 2007 that the US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ has been selected as one of five recipients of the 2007 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest Presidential honor for organizational performance excellence. For the first time in the history of the Baldrige Award, nonprofit organizations have been selected as winners with ARDEC being one of the two selected.
ARDEC, who is already recognized as the internationally acknowledged hub of armaments technology and engineering innovation, joins the elite ranks of the 72 world-class role model organizations who have been recognized since the program's inception in 1988 for performance excellence. In winning this award, ARDEC has proven to the world that Department of Defense organizations are of the caliber of private industry and academic counterparts who have achieved the highest levels of performance, integrity and ethics. Presently more than 40 U.S.states and 45 countries worldwide have implemented programs based on the Baldrige criteria. ARDEC has used the Baldrige criteria as its management framework for more than a decade and has won numerous Baldrige-based awards at the state, federal, Department of Defense and Department of Army levels. The five 2007 Baldrige Award recipients were selected from a field of 84 applicants. Winners receive their award from the President or Vice President at a ceremony held in Washington, DC in early 2008.
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