NDTA: A Good Place to Start!

摘要

In the fall of 2020, I was informed that I would be commissioning into the US Army Transportation Corps. Armed with this information, I reached out to NDTA about the possibility of becoming an intern to expand my knowledge of the transportation field. NDTA Senior Vice President of Operations Craig Hymes and the other members of NDTA gladly accepted me, and my journey began. During my internship, I was welcomed into NDTA's weekly staff meetings. These meetings provided a better understanding of the organization, and of vital issues and important news in the transportation and logistics fields to which I would have not otherwise been privy. For instance, I was able to better understand what steps the airline industry was taking to combat CO-VID-191 was also able to attend meetings with heads of industry and leaders of the Defense Department's transportation-related organizations, such as the US Transportation Command and Defense Travel Management Office. While working with NDTA, I met with Lee Matthews, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development, and Annie Keith, Operations Manager. Both full-time NDTA employees, who readily shared their years of experience working with industry and government. They gave me valuable insight into the need for organizations such as NDTA. During my meeting with Mr. Matthews, we discussed the importance of NDTA not only for its work connecting government with the private sector, but how it also allows members of industry to build relationships that will last a lifetime.