Department of Defense news release (March 16, 2006): DoD announces 2006 Nunn-Perry Award winners.The Department of Defense honored 12 corporate partnerships with the prestigious Nunn-Perry Award during the 2006 Mentor-Protege Conference held in Atlanta, Ga., March 6-9. The award is named in honor of former Senator Sam Nunn Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr. (born September 8, 1938) is an American businessman and politician. Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative), a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and of Georgia and former Secretary of Defense William Perry
Frank Ramos, director of DoD's Office of Small Business Programs, said, "The technologies and products benefiting today's warfighter in the field are, in part, the result of bringing small businesses into the forefront. We recognize these Mentor-Protege teams whose extraordinary efforts have exceeded their developmental plans and helped transform the DoD acquisition process." This year's Nunn-Perry Award recipients are: * AMEC AMEC African Methodist Episcopal Church AMEC Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce AMEC Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation AMEC Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc AMEC Association of Media Evaluation Companies Earth and Environmental Inc., Chantilly, Va., and Echota Technologies Corp., Maryville, Tenn. * The Boeing Co., Integrated Defense Systems Integrated Defense Systems may refer to:
* The Boeing Co., Integrated Defense Systems, St. Louis, Mo., and Precision Machine & Manufacturing, Grove, Okla. * Earth Tech Inc., Richmond, Va., and ETI (Embed The Internet) An earlier consortium that was devoted to putting Web servers into microcontrollers used in embedded systems. Using a Web server enables access to the device via any Web browser. See Web server and microcontroller. Professionals Inc., Lakewood, Colo. * Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. Maritime Systems & Sensors-Undersea Systems, Manassas, Va., and M & M Technical Services Inc., Woodbridge, Va. * Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Space Technology, Redondo Beach, Calif., and KW Microwave Corp., Carlsbad, Calif.. * Raytheon Aircraft Co., Wichita, Kan., and Product Manufacturing Co., Wichita, Kan. * Science Applications International Corp., Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Arrowhead Contracting Inc., Overland Park, Kan. * Science Applications International Corp., Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Ellis Environmental Group, L.C., Newberry, Fla. * Shaw Environmental Inc., Concord, Calif., and Engineering/Remediation Resources Group, Inc., Concord, Calif. * Tetra Tech EC Inc., San Diego, Calif., and T N & Associates, Inc., Milwaukee, Wis. * General Dynamics C4 Systems, Taunton, Mass., and CDP CDP (cytidine diphosphate): see cytosine. (1) (Certificate in Data Processing) An earlier award for the successful completion of an examination in hardware, software, systems analysis, programming, management and accounting, Fastener Group Inc., Brockton, Mass. Winners were selected from more than 30 partnership agreement nominations. A complete list of this year's winners and past winners is available at <http://www.dodsbconference.com>. The DoD Mentor-Protege program is the leading mentor-protege model for similar programs in other government agencies. More information on the program is available online at <http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/mentor_protege.com>, by e-mailing programinformationmp@osd.mil, or by calling (800) 540-8857. |
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