Business in a Minute Prime Contractor Host Descriptions
 
AECOM
AECOM is a premier, fully integrated professional and technical services firm positioned to design, build, finance and operate infrastructure assets around the world for public- and private-sector clients. With nearly 100,000 employees — including architects, engineers, designers, planners, scientists and management and construction services professionals — serving clients in over 150 countries around the world, AECOM is ranked as the #1 engineering design firm by revenue in Engineering News-Record magazine’s annual industry rankings. The firm is a leader in all of the key markets it serves, including transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, oil and gas, water, high-rise buildings and government.
 
AECOM provides a blend of global reach, local knowledge, innovation and technical excellence in delivering customized and creative solutions that meet the needs of clients’ projects. AECOM has a robust portfolio working with the U.S. Intelligence Community, in particular with the Maryland Procurement Office, with whom we have had a professional relationship for over 40 years.
 
AECOM is looking to partner with small businesses with credentials in Facilities Operations and Maintenance; Engineering Design and Construction; AC and DC Power Systems; Information Technology and Physical Security Access Control.
 
BAE Systems
BAE Systems provides intelligence and security services to manage big data, inform big decisions, and support big missions for the IC. BAE Systems delivers a broad range of solutions and services including intelligence analysis, cyber operations, IT, systems development, systems integration, and operations and maintenance to enable the U.S. military and government to recognize, manage, and defeat threats. Our team brings a unique understanding of the IC’s mission and challenges and pairing our team’s IT expertise with our analytic experience allows us to bring exceptional vision to the NSA mission.   BAE Systems provides mentoring and strategic relationship opportunities and is looking for small businesses with competencies in the following areas: Cloud and Datacenter, Transport / Network, IT Infrastructure, Cyber operations, IAA and Security Services, Application (Apps Malls etc.) and Web Development, Virtualization and Systems development.  The company takes pride in supporting critical national security missions that protect the nation. 

Booz Allen Hamilton
As one of the largest contractors at NSA, Booz Allen has a 35+ year history as a mission partner supporting NSA. We are fully integrated across all organizations of NSA providing a diverse range of services and solutions such as DoD acquisition support; SIGINT technical intelligence analysis; information assurance; information operations strategy, policy analysis, and operations; software and capability development; systems engineering and technical assistance; IT analysis and strategy; and network and telecommunications. We have over thirty active contracts with a footprint that spans the entire NSA including: SIGINT, Information Assurance, and Technology Directorates, as well as Research, the NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center, NSA/CSS Commercial Solutions Center, FAD, NCS, and Acquisition. Booz Allen currently engages over 115 small businesses to accomplish our work for the NSA. We work with all types of small businesses across our NSA contracts to include: Woman Owned, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, Veteran Owned, Small Disadvantaged, 8A, and Hub-Zone companies. We seek mission and technology focused small businesses dedicated to providing experienced, reliable, and responsive services in a teamed environment. Key capabilities, of interest from small businesses, that we are seeking include: systems engineering, software development, C++/JAVA applications development, embedded development, network analysis, data communications, security systems engineering, C&A, enterprise services, IT infrastructure support, integration, deployment, and O&M support. 

CACI International, Inc.
CACI is a key provider of systems engineering/architecture, software development, IT infrastructure support, language support/training, information assurance, as well as signals and Intel analysis support to the NSA in both CONUS and OCONUS locations. We are continually interested in meeting and partnering with businesses that can bring innovation through key technologies and services to provide a more robust and better value to our customers.

Computer Sciences Corporation
CSC has been developing smart technology enabled solutions for over fifty years. These solutions address our clients’ toughest challenges, demonstrating a commitment to excellence and a passion for exceeding expectations. NSA is one of CSC’s largest customers. Our NSA provided core competencies cover full life cycle engineering support including requirements analysis, architecture, design, systems engineering, systems integration, systems sustainment and managed services. In recent years, multiple forces have reshaped the global IT services market to take on the business of tomorrow.  CSC has launch a full scale turn around to elevate our business performance and deliver greater value to all of our stakeholders during this time of change. We support both Mission Systems and IT Infrastructure. CSC has established partnerships with numerous small businesses that provide key technology/capabilities to our mutual client — NSA. We are very interested in meeting with companies that either have capabilities that have been tested within the NSA or technologies that have near-term potential within that client space. Specific strategic areas of interest include cyber security, analytics, wireless technology, virtualization and cloud computing. Companies with TS/SCI staff and local presence are of special interest. 
 
Eagle Alliance
Eagle Alliance is about the integration of processes/procedures, tools and people to provide “World Class” Information Technology (IT) Service Delivery in Distributed and Cloud Computing, Networks, Telephony, Enterprise Management, End User Services and Security and to achieve maximum customer satisfaction all while doing more for less. We are a proven Intelligence Community (IC) IT service provider, providing the thought leadership to develop comprehensive business cases to drive future IT investment decisions. We are dedicated not only to delivering managed services, but more importantly, managed services within the IC. Our strengths are providing Technical Skilled Professionals, Incident Management, Quality Control, Service Center, Innovation, Service Enhancing Tool Suites, Management, Staffing, Procurement, and Process Improvement.

Exceptional Software Strategies Inc.
Exceptional Software Strategies Inc., is a small, minority owned business. For nearly two decades, Exceptional has focused on supporting the Intelligence Community (IC). Exceptional has provided Information Technology solutions and services to clients outside the IC, including the Department of Justice, NASA, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the US Army as well as Civilian and Commercial customers. Exceptional has had steady growth to more than 110 employees who hold a High Level Clearance. Experienced as a Prime Contractor, Exceptional’s largest program has more than 60 staff and growing with the help of our partners. We are a leading provider of information technology solutions and a full range of services from software development to systems engineering, with deep functional expertise in the following areas: Portals & Composite Applications, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Solutions, Business Process Management (BPM), Cyber Security, and Cloud Computing. Exceptional partners with many Large System Integrators and small businesses. We are very interested in meeting with companies with the ability to provide local TS/SCI staff with rates that are competitive for specific technical areas, domains, or applications relevant to our current Prime contracts.
 
Exelis, Inc.
Exelis is a leading provider of end-to-end, full lifecycle, critical network solutions for a broad range of customers. We apply highly-specialized talent to provide our customers with innovative solutions to the most demanding problems in the execution of their most critical missions. The customers served by Exelis are marked by an increasing reliance on systems that collect, process, manage, share, protect, and exploit information. We help our customers develop and improve their ability to operate effectively in a networked and digitized world. Our capabilities include the engineering and science expertise required to exploit advanced technologies and the management processes to develop, build, and operate large scale communication and information systems. We develop information-enabled solutions that rely on our expertise to securely access, integrate and share sensitive data. By delivering a global network that connects DoD, DHS, and civil and national agencies together into a collaborative, secure, services-oriented architecture, we are able to help our customers connect to and discover information in real time to support tactical exploitation of intelligence on the network. These solutions integrate key capabilities in cyber defense, cross-domain information sharing, broad enterprise applications of information technology, and the implementation of leading edge network and systems architectures. We are interested in teaming discussions with services and solutions companies that specialize in hardware, software and systems engineering for the Intelligence Community. Contact us to learn more about how we are enabling the crucial connections of modern life.
 
Fluor Corporation
Fluor Corporation is one of the world's largest engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance (EPCM), and project management companies. For more than 70 years, we have served U.S. government agencies, executing challenging projects worldwide. Known for our rapid-response capabilities, we have a first-class reputation among our customers within the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, Job Corps and Department of Energy. As a result, we are one of the top providers for delivering complex projects and contingency operations in remote and austere environments.
 
Our services to our government customers include large program management, critical infrastructure and data center support, environmental management/remediation, base operations and maintenance, contingency response, IT infrastructure, contingency construction, rapid deployment/mobilization, heavy equipment sourcing, and comprehensive life cycle services. Fluor is trusted by our customers to accomplish a wide variety of critical missions - from providing base life support to tens of thousands of soldiers in Afghanistan, to managing nuclear materials and performing decontamination and decommissioning, and environmental remediation at DOE sites, to responding quickly to natural disasters.
 
Our exceptional record of integrity, dependability, expertise, and safety distinguishes us among competitors. Fluor has safety rates that are significantly better than the construction industry average. We are rated among the best in Ethisphere magazine’s Government Contractor Ethics Program and have been named one of G.I. Jobs’ Top 100 Military Friendly Employers nine years in a row.
Fluor’s experience; flexibility; responsiveness; and commitment to integrity, performance, and safety result in unparalleled service delivery. We are a proud partner in our customers’ mission success.
 
General Dynamics Mission Systems
In January 2015, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems and C4 Systems were combined to become General Dynamics Mission Systems. General Dynamics Mission Systems connects users and protects their communications and information across land, sea, air, space and cyber domains. We develop, build, harden, secure, test and integrate complex communications systems, networks and products and provide the highest level of support solutions. Our customers span across global defense, civilian and commercial markets. Our broad portfolio of communications systems, networks and products range from:
·      on-the-move networking for soldiers,
·      to mission systems and afloat networks for sailors,
·      to the highest level of network and data encryption and cyber operations support,
·      to deep space antennas peering into the farthest reaches of the universe,
·      to payload for satellites and airborne systems.
 
Our capabilities include:
·      networking and platform integration,
·      cyber security, defense products, and operational support,
·      satellite communications,
·      protected radio communications products,
·      Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors, systems and space electronics,
·      mission planning and management systems, weapon control systems and platform computing systems, and
·      open architecture information systems.
 
Hewlett Packard
HP has provided support services to government agencies for over 45 years, building, integrating, securing and operating some of the most complex environments in the world, while enabling agency effectiveness, securing the exchange of information and ensuring citizen privacy. At HP, partnering is a core strategy and is part of the culture of our organization. We are looking for companies with cleared expertise in the following areas: systems engineering, applications development, testing, IT infrastructure, and ITIL.
 
Intelligent Decisions, Inc.
Intelligent Decisions, Inc. (IDI) is a unique, diversified Information Technology solutions provider helping defense, intelligence, and civilian organizations meet their technology requirements and achieve mission critical goals. Based upon our technical expertise, flexible and proactive customer service, strong management team and competitive pricing models, we are in an exceptional position to serve as your Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), Systems Integrator (SI) and Value-Added Reseller (VAR).
 
KEYW Corporation
KEYW is a highly specialized provider of mission-critical cybersecurity, cyber superiority and geospatial intelligence solutions to US Government defense, intelligence and national security agencies and commercial enterprises. Our core capabilities include solutions, services and products to support the collection, processing, analysis, use of intelligence data and information in the domains of cyberspace and geospace, and the protection of networks and related infrastructure. Our solutions are designed to respond to meet the critical needs for agile intelligence in the cyber age and to assist the US government in national security priorities.
 
 We provide a full range of engineering services, cybersecurity and analytic products, and fully integrated platforms that support the entire intelligence process, including collection, processing, analysis and impact. Our platforms include a number of modified commercial turboprop aircraft for imagery and light detection and ranging (LIDAR), collection, products that we manufacture, as well as hardware and software that we integrate using the engineering services of our highly skilled and security-cleared workforce.
 
KEYW is interested in meeting with companies that have a unique capability, service, or product. Specific areas of interest are cyber security, cloud analytics, wireless technology, cloud computing. Companies with TS/SCI staff and local presence are of interest.
 
L-3 National Security Solutions (NSS)
L-3 National Security Solutions (L-3 NSS) is a prime mission partner to defense, intelligence and government agencies, as well as international and commercial organizations. Our integrated solutions combine best-of-breed technology and proven processes with in-field expertise that crosses the domains of cyber, intelligence, enterprise and mission IT, command and control, Big Data and physical security. L-3 NSS partners with customers, industry and academia to provide mission support and innovations that reduce costs and improve performance at the “speed of need.”  L-3 NSS is proud of our team-building expertise, and we value the multiplier effect that our partnerships bring to our customers. The L-3 NSS Small Business Office (SBO) was established to ensure that small business; small, disadvantaged, woman-owned, service-disabled, veteran-owned businesses; and HUBZone-certified businesses all have the maximum practical opportunity to compete for L-3 NSS’ business. The SBO acts as the liaison between diverse suppliers and all of L-3 NSS’ business units that have procurement responsibilities. L-3 NSS is continually reaffirming its commitment to small business participation, and developing procurement programs that are beneficial to both its small business partners’ and to L-3 NSS’ corporate growth strategies. The SBO is interested in partnering with companies with products and/or services expertise in information assurance, systems engineers, systems integrators, computer network operations (all aspects), mission management, analysis, curriculum development, software development, language analysis, language and SIGINT training and general IT, among others. We manage several large NSA prime contracts and participate as a sub on several dozen more, so our breadth of requirements is very large.
 
Leidos
Leidos is a FORTUNE 500® science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in national security, health and engineering. The company employs around 19,000 of the nation's leading scientists, technologists, world-recognized subject matter experts, patent holders, inventors, and military veterans. More than 5,000 of our employees hold master- and doctorate-level degrees and approximately half of our employees hold government security clearances. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos has extensive facilities in Columbia, Md. supporting NSA and other IC/DoD customers. Leidos is one of the leading Prime contractors supporting NSA, with multiple contracts supporting SID, IAD, and the Technology Directorates. Throughout our history, we have successfully partnered with the Small Business community in exceeding customer expectations. We look forward to expanding our Small Business partnerships with companies that share our passion in providing critical national security solutions in diverse technical areas, including hardware, software, and systems engineering and design, integration and test, operations and maintenance support, cyber operations, cloud computing, intelligence analysis, and information security.
 
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin Defense & Intelligence Solutions delivers advanced research, design and integration of defense and cyber solutions to customers across national defense, intel, civil and commercial markets.  Supporting organizations as they seek to harness and understand the expanding volume of information communicated daily around the world, our cutting-edge technologies and solutions empower our customers to rapidly gather, analyze and turn that data into action. Customers are able to protect what’s most important – from national security, to citizens and critical assets. Our solutions are scalable, affordable and always secure.
 
In the near term, we are evaluating potential partners that have high end software skills, web application capabilities, security processes and employees with recognized certifications. We partner with our customer and small businesses to deliver 24x7x365 worldwide services to include: Infrastructure Operations and Maintenance; Construction and Project Management; Energy Planning, Optimization and Green Solutions; Environmental and Health Services; Transportation and Security Services; Supply Chain Management and Logistics Services; Food, Custodial and Warehousing Services; and Information/Reprographics Services. We provide these services with a fully cleared workforce and meet and exceed NSA’s small business goal participation in our current contracts. 

M.C. Dean, Inc.
Over the previous decade, M.C. Dean has been fortunate to grow significantly in the DoD, the Intelligence Community and specifically with the NSA providing facility infrastructure design, construction and lifecycle support services.  Our specialization includes critical power and mechanical systems, medium voltage power systems, SCADA and building automation systems, electronic security systems, and systems integration including the risk management framework expertise that’s now required to assure systems security and the rigid engineering practices that must be applied across the entire lifecycle.  M.C. Dean continuously seeks partnerships with businesses and organizations that improve our capacity and innovative capability to be of great value and better serve to our clients.   
 
Northrop Grumman
From infrastructure to military, our cyber expertise knows no limits. For more than 30 years, Northrop Grumman has been trusted to protect our customers' full range of missions. Our solutions provide the adaptability to face evolving threats and the expertise to eliminate them. Northrop Grumman's expertise is bolstered by a culture of collaboration. Our team of cyber experts work shoulder to shoulder with our customers to provide greater knowledge, better technology and more effective performance.
 
Types of Small Business capabilities that Northrop Grumman Cyber Division is looking for:
·      Information Assurance and Security
·      Computer Network Defense
·      Cloud Engineering and System engineering
·      Software Engineering
·      Big Data Analytics
 
Parsons
Founded in 1944, Parsons is a technology and innovation leader offering systems engineering, software engineering, intelligence services, infrastructure protection, information technology, construction engineering, facility management, and environmental/energy solutions to customers worldwide. For the U.S. Government, we support Homeland Security, Defense (to include the U.S. Cyber Command), and the Intelligence Community (IC) with Information Assurance (IA), cybersecurity, and full-spectrum information operations, as well as facility optimization and critical asset protection. As a prime contractor for the NSA IA Directorate, Parsons provides systems engineering and computer network defense software analysis in support of IA operations, cyber exercises, and related Defense/IC initiatives. For NSA Installation & Logistics, we are a prime contractor engaged with facility (building & infrastructure) engineering, planning, design, and commissioning to include oversight of construction efforts by other contractors. For a number of NSA organizations, Parsons develops and produces hardware and software tools that collect, process, analyze, fuse, assess, and securely disseminate intelligence. Our sustained commitment to small businesses resulted in over 64% of our total 2014 subcontracting dollars going to small businesses and the continued success of our Small Business Program; rated “Outstanding” by the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) in 2014. Parsons also provides mentoring to include participation in multiple formal Mentor-Protégé programs.
 
Praxis Engineering
Praxis Engineering, headquartered in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, is a consulting, products, and solutions firm dedicated to the practical application of software and systems engineering technologies to ensure the success of our customers. Praxis Engineering brings together world class engineering talent combined with engineering best practices, domain expertise, commercial technologies, and proven agile management approaches to create high-value solutions aimed at helping our customers meet their mission critical needs. Small Businesses interested in meeting:
·      Software development companies that can work as part of an integrated team
·      Specialty skilled companies including reserve-engineers, embedded development, cloud computing, cyber security, big data analytics
·      Companies with relevant domain experience.
 
Raytheon
Raytheon is a technology and innovation leader which provides state-of-the-art electronics, products, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of SIGINT/Cyber; sensing; effects; command and control; communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. We have over 70,000 employees deployed in 80 countries, and are poised to support our customers most pressing missions needs and challenges no matter where the location may be. We have invested over $3B during the last eight years building a SIGINT/Cyber product and services capability within our Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS) business that we view as the fastest growing defense contractor portfolio in the United States. Our track record gives testimony that we are committed to being the desired mission partner to address and solve our customer’s most pressing SIGINT/Cyber challenges. With a new SIGINT/Cyber portfolio that encompasses fourteen corporate mergers and acquisitions, five facilities and nearly 500 cleared skilled engineers within a 10 miles radius of Fort Meade, and over 800 SIGINT/Cyber product line employees across AL, FL, MD, SC and TX.  We are positioned to be a driving force in consistently meeting and exceeding our customer’s SIGINT/Cyber mission needs with innovation, fresh ideas, and a work force dedicated to our customer’s success. We are looking for large and small business partners to join our efforts in supporting customer mission needs with emphasis on the following: SIGINT/Cyber Systems and Software Engineering; Cyber Solutions Development; Enterprise Architectures; Global Access; Integrated Mission Management; Reverse Engineering; Vulnerability Assessment; CLOUD; Analytics and Visualization; User Experience Design; SIGINT Development; Computer Forensics; Cross Domain Solutions; Network Security; Mobile Security; BIG DATA; Knowledge Management; Remotely Deployable Systems Engineering, Integration and Deployments; and Global Systems Deployments and Integration. 
 
Van Dyke Technology Group
Van Dyke Technology Group builds on a 20-year legacy of providing systems and security engineering solutions across the IC. In the last 12 years Van Dyke has experienced steady growth as an information engineering Prime contractor providing high assurance, net-centric, information sharing solutions. Our technological thrust is creation of information network architectures that solve the security and identity management issues related to protecting the flow of information within an enterprise network, between and among enterprise domains of differing security levels (cross domain solutions), and for access to the evolving object-based, net-centric, information sharing environment architectures. We help our customers meet their security and performance needs. Van Dyke solutions span the cybersecurity spectrum, optimize system performance and help our military, intelligence and civil agency customers to adopt new technologies confidently. Van Dyke is headquartered in Columbia, MD. Our staff numbers 180, the vast majority of whom hold one or more security-related certifications. Over the past two years, we have expanded into two emerging technology domains including the nexus of language and intelligence analysis and cyber security services across government, financial and commercial markets.  We are interested in small companies wanting to establish true partnerships across our core business areas.
 
Ventura Solutions (A Boeing Company)
Ventura Solutions was acquired by the Boeing Company in June 2014.  As part of the Boeing Intelligence Systems Group, we combined with the local National Security Programs (NSP) office and together are dedicated to creating and delivering innovative command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (C4ISR) and cyber solutions that provide spectrum superiority to our customers.  NSA is a key intelligence community customer and we have a strong focus on delivering innovative mission solutions that collect, process, analyze and exploit enormous amounts of data across a variety of collection systems.  We have a number of NSA prime contracts and rely on both large and small business industry partners to assist us in solving our customer’s critical challenges.  We are interested in meeting with companies that have local TS/SCI cleared personnel.  We are especially interested in companies with cleared personnel having expertise in agile software development, digital signal processing (DSP), software defined radios (SDR), cloud computing, data analytics and visualization, UX design, software and system integration and test (I&T).