The NCMA Chronicle: Celebrating 50 Years

  Excerpt from the Foreword:

This book marks a very special occasion—the 50th anniversary of the National Contract Management Association. We have come a long way from our beginnings in the 1950s, a handful of contracting personnel scattered across the country forming small organizations to address the issues and assert the basic identity of their profession. Yet, despite NCMA′s tremendous growth over the last five decades, the purpose and goals of the association have not changed. …

NCMA members of all levels, from the founders and national leaders, through the chapters, to student members aspiring to become contract professionals, have a part to play in writing the history of the association. The pages of this book give you a comprehensive look at NCMA′s past. If you read carefully between the lines, it can also show you how we arrived at this 50-year milestone, and why we will continue to grow and be successful in the decades to come.

This book is dedicated to you, the members who make the time and the effort to keep NCMA moving forward and to ensure that our programs and our mission remain relevant and equal to the challenges we face.

The NCMA Chronicle features more than 200 pages taken from the history and traditions of the association. Lavishly illustrated with photographs from the entire organizational timeline and handsomely bound into a coffee table-quality volume, the Chronicle is a unique and fitting testament to the struggles and triumphs of the first generations of NCMA members.

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