As 2023 has closed, it's worth reflecting on how the year turned out on the technical and business fronts. Technically, workload was a little lighter in 2023 as I scheduled a little more personal time. The technical work, though, continued to be challenging and rewarding. Support for NAVAIR remained the biggest activity, by far. We got several important technical products completed and out the door during 2023. Business-wise, a main highlight was helping develop a presumably successful proposal for a new support contract - maybe providing a contracting vehicle for the next 5 years. Pleasantly, in 2023, there was a general recovery from the COVID-related restrictions on business travel. Even in early 2022, as I was beginning to travel (a lot) again, we still had to wear masks on planes and in airports. As I recall that ended in about May or so of 2022, after I had spent a lot of time traveling by air the first few months of the year. In 2023, business travel seeme...
Just a few weeks after the previous post about the T&E course as Pax River, the COVID-19 shutdown impacted operations. Previously, I was accustomed to frequent travel - not necessarily every week, but probably averaging three trips a month. This had gone on for many years. Working in this field requires interaction with users, and other meetings best conducted in person. But we all rapidly shifted to on-line meetings, more phone calls, and various innovative ways to keep the work going from home. The working from home part was relatively straightforward, as I had been mostly working from home (when not on travel) for several years. But starting in mid-March 2020, it was all working from home! Across my different projects: one used WebEx, one Zoom, and one Teams. So I got to experience the best and worst of all three systems. I did not travel by air from the second week of March, 2020, until the very end of October, 20...
Comments
Post a Comment