The Captain Edward F. Ney Memorial Award is the highest honor given to U.S. Navy food service operations to recognize food service excellence. The galleys honored must achieve a five-star rating from the Navy evaluation team during an annual evaluation. Five-star recipients can be nominated for the Ney Award. The award is designed to improve food services by encouraging competition among food service operations. It was named for the Navy captain who served as the head of the Subsistence Division of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts from 1940 to 1945.
GCE has received a five-star annual accreditation at Naval Air Station Pensacola every year since 2001 and received the Ney Award in 2010. In 2023, GCE team members at Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport, Mississippi, earned the Ney Award for the East Coast General Mess Category, and our team at Naval Station Newport Rhode Island earned their twelfth five-star accreditation.
In addition to being named a Top 50 Contract Management Company by Food Management Magazine since 2010, GCE has received numerous awards over our long history of providing food service excellence to our customers:
LifeView Group, the parent company of GCE, proudly upholds its commitment to supporting veterans and their families through multiple prestigious recognitions.
Liberty Hoekstra, food service supervisor at Eielson Air Force Base, has been named Global Connections to Employment’s Team Member of the Quarter for her compassionate leadership and dedication to her team. Supervising 6–12 team members who serve 600 customers daily, Liberty developed unique ways to show her appreciation through small tokens like keychains, lanyards, and […]
Jennie Butler, benefits coordinator, has been named Team Member of the Quarter for LifeView Group – parent company of GCE – for her exceptional contributions to the annual Health & Welfare (H&W) audit at GCE, our affiliate providing career services for team members with disabilities. Over the past three years, Jennie has progressively taken on […]
Gulfport, Miss. (September 17, 2024) – Global Connections to Employment (GCE) has earned the Captain Edward F. Ney Memorial Award at the Naval Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport, Mississippi, known as the Navy Seabees base. This prestigious award is the highest recognition for Navy food service operations. The Colmer Dining Facility was recognized for the East […]
Global Connections to Employment (GCE) is an Accredited Business through the Better Business Bureau of Northwest Florida, where our organization is headquartered.
