ARMADA VP receives distinguished service award November 16, 2007

Dale Shipley, Vice President of Emergency Management and Homeland Security for ARMADA Ltd., has received the 2007 Lacy E. Suiter Distinguished Service Award from the National Emergency Management Association.

The award is given each year to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to emergency management and whose accomplishments over a career are of unusual merit.

Shipley was nominated for the award by Glen Woodbury, associate director of executive education programs for the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School. In his nomination form, Woodbury said Shipley "has served his country with considerable honor for over 45 years."

"One word captures the essence of Dale Shipley’s professional life: integrity," Woodbury wrote.

Shipley graduated from the United States Military Academy (BS) and Purdue University (MS, Industrial Management) and served two tours of duty in Vietnam, where he was decorated for heroism. He also commanded the US Army’s Jungle Operations Training Center in Panama and served on the Department of Army staff among other assignments before retiring from the military after 26 years of service.

His emergency management career includes tenures with Ohio Governors Dick Celeste, George Voinovich and Bob Taft, all of whom he served as emergency management director. He also was appointed Director Region V, FEMA by President Bill Clinton.

Shipley has serves as a consultant to the Department of Homeland Security, NIMS Integration Center and as a member of the DHS Senior Steering Committee for Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8.

The Lacy E. Suiter Distinguished Service Award is named after one of the most respected emergency management and homeland security leaders in the country. During his 40-year career, Suiter led numerous homeland security and emergency management organizations, at both the state and national levels.

ARMADA Ltd.

A risk mitigation company, ARMADA provides comprehensive consulting to meet the demanding requirements of government entities and private companies to properly plan for and respond to disasters and incidents. ARMADA’s mission is to work in partnership with your organization to protect your associates, assets, infrastructure, and reputation. ARMADA stresses the importance of professionally, proactively and innovatively preventing or mitigating risk to organizations

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