Project Updates & News...

IIa has been on a contract-winning streak since July. The following paragraphs describe the major projects won in the last few months:

October-DoD: An exciting contract win for IIa in October was the Base Services contract at Edwards Air Force Base. IIa was selected to manage education and training and track the development of base military personnel. This win expands IIa's support role for the military to 10 Air Force Bases and is the second such contract for the relatively new Education and Training Support Services division of the company. IIa will provide human resource development support for more than 6,000 military personnel at Edwards (the Air Force Flight Test Center) in California beginning in October 2003. IIa began managing a similar contract for 12,000 military and civilian personnel at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida in December 2001. The project manager at Eglin is Steve Gardner. Both contracts are under the Air Force Materiel Command.

September-DoD: In September, IIa was notified that it will continue as the contractor for the Cannon Air Force Base Library in Clovis, New Mexico. Under IIa's management and led by Melissa Haraughty, in FY01 Cannon ranked as one of the top 20 Air Force libraries around the nation in customer service. Other members of the Cannon library team are Amy Burke, Chris Haraughty, and Sean Shepherd.

August-DOE: In August, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) contracted with IIa for support of business and program development in the area of advanced terrestrial and space nuclear power systems. The Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) are restarting a space nuclear power initiative and ORNL is working to secure a major role in the new initiative.

Under the contract, IIa staff will recommend business strategies for new opportunities with DOE and/or NASA; prepare draft proposals in response to NASA research announcements; produce presentations and marketing information describing ORNL capabilities and technologies; and perform technical and programmatic evaluations of space power reactor concepts and technologies.

July-DoD: In late July, IIa won a contract to support the Deputy Director U.S. Army Engineer Research And Development Center (ERDC) in Washington, D.C. ERDC, a research organization with a staff of more than 2,100 civilians and military personnel and an annual budget exceeding $550 million, undertakes R&D in the areas of civil engineering, environment, water resources engineering, and physical sciences.

Under this contract, Roy Cooper supports the strategic planning process implementation through a series of training workshops and lecture sessions for the ERDC Director, Deputy Director, and Lab Directors; a strategic assessment process; and leadership support to achieve ERDC's objectives for this task.