PCD ASN(RDA) Allison Stiller Award
Established in 2023, this award recognizes a rising member of the submarine acquisition community who has demonstrated professional excellence in submarine acquisition at the GS-13/14 or equivalent level. The award is presented to a member of the civilian acquisition workforce.
2025 Awardees
Gregory Maguire
for exceptionally meritorious service as Assistant Program Manager in the COLUMBIA Class Submarine Program Office (PMS 397).
Mr. Maguire led the team responsible for managing DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (SSBN 826) construction, exhibiting model submarine acquisition performance. He displayed exceptional leadership by focusing a vast stakeholder network including shipbuilders General Dynamics Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding, Supervisors of Shipbuilding Groton and Newport News, NAVSEA directorates, and Type Commanders on construction and delivery of the lead ship of this critical program. He demonstrated exceptional commitment through organizing a daily presence at the shipbuilder, unlocking deckplate productivity, and fostering collaboration between construction stakeholders during the PMS397 intrusive engagement effort at both shipyards. Mr. Maguire proactively identified and implemented schedule recovery opportunities, contributing significantly to lead ship schedule acceleration efforts, effectively removed barriers, and implemented solutions to improve construction velocity for SSBN 826, thereby optimizing workflows and streamlining processes. In addition to his acquisition and ship construction contributions, Mr. Maguire displayed dedicated leadership and organizational intelligence through the restructure of team roles and responsibilities, assigning dedicated construction engineers to each shipyard, and expanding construction readiness focus and oversight.
Mr. Maguire is most deserving of recognition by the Naval Submarine League to receive the Allison Stiller Award for Excellence in Submarine Acquisition.
Monica Ortega
for exceptionally meritorious service as Lightweight Torpedo Foreign Military Sales Assistant Production Manager in the Undersea Warfare Program Office (PMS 404).
Ms. Ortega is a superb Assistant Program Manager, leading the lightweight torpedo (LWT) foreign military sales (FMS) efforts for the torpedo enterprise. She has also served as the acting Principal Assistant Program Manager for all torpedo enterprise FMS efforts with added duties coordinating communication with senior US and foreign Navy leadership. As a direct result of her leadership, nearly 100 lightweight torpedo FMS cases across 24 allied partners were managed, representing a $2B portfolio. The portfolio includes nearly 1000 MK 54 MOD 0 deliveries planned between CY25 and CY30, and support to 13 intermediate maintenance activities located around the world, enabling self-sufficient operations of allied USW forces with highly capable weapons. Her efforts were key to the installation and activation of the MK 695 MOD 2 torpedo test set in the Netherlands, providing MK 54 maintenance capability at the Netherlands IMA. Ms. Ortego organized and supported seven in-country trainings and technical assistance visits to ensure allied partners retain an operational effective and suitable LWT in inventory. Additionally, she led 23 Program Management Reviews (PMRs) both CONUS and OCONUS, working across multiple time zones and crossing language barriers.
Ms. Ortega is most deserving of recognition by the Naval Submarine League to receive the Allison Stiller Award for Excellence in Submarine Acquisition.
Previous Awardees
2024 |
Kevin R. Clark |
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Allison Stiller
Allison Stiller served as the Principal Civilian Deputy, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research Development & Acquisition (ASN(RDA)). She assumed the position in June 2015, where her responsibilities included oversight and policy for Navy and Marine Corps research, development, and acquisition programs for shipbuilding, aviation, space, weapon systems, and communication systems. This portfolio included management of more than 100,000 employees and an annual budget in excess of $50 billion, as well as overseeing hundreds of technical developments and procurement programs for the Department of the Navy. Ms. Stiller also led the Department's Senior Executive Acquisition Corps.
Ms. Stiller entered the Senior Executive Service in January 2004 and spent over 25 years in the Department of Defense's acquisition community. Ms. Stiller served in a number of shipbuilding acquisition positions throughout her career, where she led in the development and procurement of complex ship programs in multiple phases of the acquisition life cycle. Prior to this position, Ms. Stiller served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Ship Programs. In this capacity, she was responsible for executive oversight of all naval shipbuilding and associated weapon systems programs, major ship conversions, and nuclear ship refueling, as well as the maintenance, modernization and disposal of in-service ships.
She also served for four years as the Deputy Program Manager in the Amphibious Warfare Program Office, responsible for design, development, acquisition, and fleet introduction of amphibious ships and landing craft. She supervised over 40 individuals and managed four acquisition programs with a total value of $16B. Ms. Stiller also served as Director for Naval and Commercial Construction in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Ship Programs, where her responsibilities included oversight of amphibious and auxiliary ship construction and conversion programs, as well as shipbuilding industrial base matters. During her tenure, Ms. Stiller helped develop and promote initiatives that focused the nation's shipbuilding industry towards commercial viability. Ms. Stiller also served as Acquisition Manager in the early phases of the Virginia Class Submarine Program, as well as division director in the SEAWOLF Submarine program during the design and early construction phases of that program.