Infrastructure and Logistics Team

By Kerry McGinley

If you check a weather app or listen to your local news for your forecast, the data on storms likely came from a buoy floating in one of the world’s oceans. Stephanie Jordan, operations specialist for the National Data Buoy Center at Stennis Space Center, is a critical part of the team that ensures that network of reporting devices stays afloat. 

“Those buoys, basically they’re saving lives,” she said. “They’re saving property. They give us our weather, they give us our climate.” 

By Kerry McGinley

The Marine Corps was the first of the armed services to automate its personnel records, and Ellen Hill was the subject matter expert who helped streamline its data. She helped re-engineer the way the Marine Corps handles information of thousands of men and women in uniform in the 1990s and paved the way for modern systems to enable service members to access their records.