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DLA winners Lauren Austin (left), a branch chief in DLA Troop Support’s Subsistence Customer Operations Directorate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Tracy Ruland (right), a procurement analyst within DLA Aviation’s Procurement Process Support Directorate in Richmond, Virginia, speak after accepting their awards during the June 12 inaugural 2024 Defense Acquisition Workforce Writing Awards ceremony held in the Howell Auditorium at Defense Acquisition University campus on Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Austin won for her essay, Holiday Subsistence Support Under Austere Conditions, and Ruland won for her essay, Rising from the Ashes: How to Quarterback an "Impossible" Acquisition Across the Goal Line. (Photos by Nicole Brate)

DLA winners Lauren Austin (left), a branch chief in DLA Troop Support’s Subsistence Customer Operations Directorate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Tracy Ruland (right), a procurement analyst within DLA Aviation’s Procurement Process Support Directorate in Richmond, Virginia, speak after accepting their awards during the June 12 inaugural 2024 Defense Acquisition Workforce Writing Awards ceremony held in the Howell Auditorium at Defense Acquisition University campus on Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Austin won for her essay, Holiday Subsistence Support Under Austere Conditions, and Ruland won for her essay, Rising from the Ashes: How to Quarterback an "Impossible" Acquisition Across the Goal Line. (Photos by Nicole Brate)

DLA winners Lauren Austin (left), a branch chief in DLA Troop Support’s Subsistence Customer Operations Directorate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Tracy Ruland (right), a procurement analyst within DLA Aviation’s Procurement Process Support Directorate in Richmond, Virginia, speak after accepting their awards during the June 12 inaugural 2024 Defense Acquisition Workforce Writing Awards ceremony held in the Howell Auditorium at Defense Acquisition University campus on Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Austin won for her essay, Holiday Subsistence Support Under Austere Conditions, and Ruland won for her essay, Rising from the Ashes: How to Quarterback an "Impossible" Acquisition Across the Goal Line. (Photos by Nicole Brate)

DLA winners Lauren Austin (left), a branch chief in DLA Troop Support’s Subsistence Customer Operations Directorate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Tracy Ruland (right), a procurement analyst within DLA Aviation’s Procurement Process Support Directorate in Richmond, Virginia, speak after accepting their awards during the June 12 inaugural 2024 Defense Acquisition Workforce Writing Awards ceremony held in the Howell Auditorium at Defense Acquisition University campus on Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Austin won for her essay, Holiday Subsistence Support Under Austere Conditions, and Ruland won for her essay, Rising from the Ashes: How to Quarterback an "Impossible" Acquisition Across the Goal Line. (Photos by Nicole Brate)