Mission Area
December 8, 2015
Mr. Michael McAllister, logistics management specialist at Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4), has been named Logistician of the Year for 2015 by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology 2015 Army Acquisition Executive's (AAE) Excellence in Leadership Award. Mr. McAllister is the first to receive this distinction, which seeks to recognize excellence and innovation in the Army Acquisition Workforce (AAW).
McAllister leads theater operations and is contracting officer representative for over 100 contractors who field, train and provide hands-on customer support for more than 46,000 MC4 medical IT systems supplied internationally to more than 2,200 Army units.
"Michael's efforts ensured that MC4 systems and technical support teams were at the right place at the right time to support MC4 users deployed worldwide – these are the trademarks of a truly outstanding logistician," said Tracy Ellis, Chief, Logistics Management Division, MC4.
MC4 is an expeditionary network of systems that equips medics on the ground to digitally document injuries and input medical information for wounded Service members. These systems use a blend of commercial and government off the shelf products including Theater Medical Information Program-Joint (TMIP-J) applications under the management of the Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems Program Management Office (JOMIS PMO), the supervision of Defense Healthcare Management Systems (DHMS) and fielded to operational medical forces worldwide. Medical staff on the battlefield record and transfer critical medical data from foxhole to military treatment facilities, and thereby assure accuracy and continuity of health records for warfighters across the globe.
McAllister developed an innovative contracting strategy which resulted in a net 20-percent annual savings in FY 2015 alone. Under his direction, more than 5,000 systems were fielded to 250 Army units worldwide during this period, coming in under cost and ahead of schedule. This represents a 50% increase over FY14 in the number of MC4 systems fielded.
For more than a decade, the Army has entrusted MC4 with maintaining deployable medical recording systems. MC4 leads the way with the most widely-used, comprehensive information management medical system on the battlefield.