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Masters of the deal: military contract will boost the company's bottom line by 20%.


Huntsville, Alabama-based Tec-Masters Inc. recently landed a two-year, $26.8 million service contract with Naval Air Warfare air warfare

Military operations conducted by airplanes, helicopters, or other aircraft against aircraft or targets on the ground and in the water. Air warfare did not become important until World War I (1914–18).
 Training Systems, a training and technical division of the U.S. Navy. The burgeoning company first appeared on the BE INDUSTRIAL/SERVICE 100 list last year at No. 55 with $68 million in sales.

The company will provide military live training, system development, logistics support, technical assistance, and other performance enhancement strategies for the division. The NAVAIR NAVAIR Naval Air Systems Command  contract will account for 60% of Tec-Masters' business, reveals Larry Reed, vice president for operations at Tec-Masters.

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British-born American physician noted for his research on yellow fever. In 1900 he deliberately infected himself with the disease for experimental purposes.
, president and chief executive officer of Tec-Masters, says the contract is one of the largest his company has acquired since graduating from the Small Business Administration's 8(a) certification in 1999. In the program, minority-owned firms become eligible to receive federal set-aside contracts. "We are delighted to be able to provide NAVAIR with our technical service and expertise,"

Carroll says. "The contract will enable us to remain a leader in the field of information technology systems training and support."

Reed says the company will pro vide some services on site at the NAVAIR corporate training center in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. , and at other Tec-Masters facilities. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Alabama, Tec-Masters has offices in Florida, Missouri Florida is a hamlet in Monroe County, Missouri, United States, best known as the birthplace of writer Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) in 1835.[1] The 2000 census reported a population of 9. , Georgia, and Oklahoma.
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Title Annotation:B.E. 100s
Author:Townes, Glenn
Publication:Black Enterprise
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 1, 2006
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