Budget leader earns service's top management award

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RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) --  The deputy assistant secretary for budget received the 2007 Eugene M. Zuckert Management Award during a ceremony recently at the Pentagon.

"It is truly an honor to receive such a high-level award, but there are many people who deserve credit for it," said Maj. Gen. Larry O. Spencer, who is responsible for planning and directing Air Force budget formulations annually that total more than $136 billion.

"The efforts of our Air Force's financial experts have been extraordinary as we continue to successfully take on the tough challenges we face in today's resource-constrained environment," he said. 

The annual award recognizes outstanding achievements by a top-level Air Force manager in the ranks of brigadier through lieutenant general or civilian equivalents. It is named after Mr. Zuckert who served as secretary of the Air Force from January 1961 to September 1965. 

General Spencer was cited for his leadership on the fiscal 2008 president's budget and for his expertise on 2007 and 2008 war on terrorism supplementals. His efforts with Congress helped reverse a $750 million budget reduction and helped fill a $1 billion shortfall in Air Force funding.

The general leads a staff of civilian and military financial managers who develop, integrate and defend Air Force resource requests to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Office of Management and Budget and Congress. He also manages and executes funds that support military operations and Air Force priorities at the direction of the secretary of defense and Congress.

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