Fort Belvoir, Va. –
Ms. Debbra Caw earned the 2024 Meritorious Presidential Rank Award (PRA), one of the most prestigious awards in the career civilian service. Ms. Caw has been a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES) since June 2015 and has been the Deputy Director at DCAA since January 2023. She has over 25 years of experience in public service and is one of DCAA’s top leading change catalysts. The PRA recognizes and celebrates sustained extraordinary accomplishments of exceptional career public servants in the SES. The award is presented to no more than 5 percent of executives in the federal government through a rigorous selection process.
Ms. Caw has over 30 years of extensive leadership experience and promotes collaboration and idea sharing to shape the Agency’s future. She leads projects that drive meaningful change, creating multiple successful mentorship and coaching programs, promoting knowledge sharing, collaboration, and understanding. Prior to her Deputy Director role, she successfully brokered a mutually beneficial deal between Canada and the United States, led her region to exceed the previous fiscal year’s program objectives by 20 percent, and improved and repaired partnerships and relationships with other federal organizations, contractors, and military branches.
In addition to these accomplishments, Ms. Caw keeps a pulse on future needs of the agency and the people who work at DCAA. Throughout her time in DCAA, she has actively connected with employees through town hall meetings, feedback forums, core value round tables, and first-time supervisor forums. Focusing on personnel development, she led in training auditors on Other Transactions and elevated fraud awareness, resulting in an increase in investigations and a surge in auditor fraud referrals in 2022. She helped establish the Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, led the Agency’s management information system replacement, and contributed to a new Portfolio and Project Management tool leading to $750 thousand reduction cost and savings, exceeding $500 million in information technology expenses.
Overall Ms. Caw is a true leader who inspires others, promotes growth in people and the organization, and who finds opportunities to implement improvements.
Congratulations Ms. Caw!