The Presidential Rank Award is one of the most prestigious honors in federal career civil service. The President of the United States selects recipients based on performance and contributions to federal service.
Dr. Christopher Colliver, Technical Advisor for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Acquisition Intelligence, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received the Distinguished Defense Intelligence Senior Level Executive (DISL) Senior Professional Presidential Rank Award. (Dr. Colliver is in the front row of the photo, wearing the solid red tie.)
Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall presented Dr. Colliver his award in a special ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery earlier this summer. (SecAF Kendall is in the front row, blue tie.)
Dr. Colliver is responsible for ensuring access to intelligence community assets necessary to mitigate risks to center procurement activities, and for center-managed ISR systems to seamlessly provide data for exploitation by the Intelligence Community. In his previous position, Dr. Colliver spent 24 years at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center where he worked on digital intelligence analysis, production, modeling and simulation architectures.
The Presidential Rank Award Program was created in 1978. Winners are selected from across the entire civilian enterprise.