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When and Where
  • 5/21/2025 6:00 PM EDT
  • 5/21/2025 9:00 PM EDT
  • Crystal Gateway Marriott
  • 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway
  • Arlington
  • VA

The Ground Awards Dinner is an annual dinner held in close coordination with the Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies and Operations. Join us as we celebrate 21 years of providing professional recognition to the top-performing leaders in the ground combat community and network with the Marine Corps community.


Guest Speaker: 

General Eric M. Smith

Commandant of the Marine Corps


Dress: 

Business or Cocktail attire.


Cost: 

$150 for MCA members and $175 for non Members. This includes the cost of parking at the venue.


Active-duty service members can register online for free and will also be eligible for a no-cost Premium membership. Spouses can also attend free of charge, but must email events@mca-marines.org to register for the event.

 

Schedule

TimeEvent
1800Reception
1900Dinner and Awards Ceremony


Event Extra Info: 

MCA would like to express our sincere appreciation to all these companies for their support of this event and our programs:

USAA;

Lockheed Martin & Sikorsky; BAE Systems; Leidos; V2X;

L3Harris; First Command; ManTech; CACI; Dominion Energy; RTX; MSC;

Huntington Ingalls Industries; Innovative Reasoning; Knowledge Management; Oshkosh Defense; ReNvision;

Anglicotech; Booz Allen Hamilton; Cervello Global Corporation; Google Cloud; Columbia Southern University; Rheinmetall; Saab; Teledyne FLIR;

AT&T; AWS; CGI; Flyer Defense; General Dynamics; KPMG; Linchpin Solutions; Nammo; Northrop Grumman; Targeted Approach;

AAR Corporation; ADS, Inc; AveningTech; Boeing; Catalyst Solutions; Cherokee Federal; Dell; Kalman & Co; Klas Government; Oracle; Parsons; Redwood Strategy Group; Rolls-Royce; SAIC; Textron; Trillion;

Airbus; Blackberry; ECS; Elbit Systems of America; Ernst & Young; FCN Inc; Focus Consulting Firm; The Hartford; Kymeta; Leonardo DRS; LMI; MLT; PaloAlto; Pearl Insurance; Significance; SV-CG; ViaSat;

SR Technologies; 

Conflict Kinetics; Trijicon; Optics 1 and SKB.



Neither the Department of Defense nor any of its components

endorse the MCA or this event.