Volume
2005, Issue 2
June 8, 2005
Inside this Issue: |
Headquarters Happenings
| Fast50 Award | Oak Ridger Article |
DOI Conservation Service Award
In February, IIa President Bonnie Carroll was awarded the
Department of Interior’s
Conservation 
Service
Award for 2004. In making the award, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton
cited Carroll's “outstanding
contributions” to developing the National Biological Information Infrastructure
and other biological informatics efforts. The Secretary also noted
Carroll’s “strategic
vision” both with NBII and with the Office of Science and Technology
Policy’s Biodiversity Informatics Working Group. She commended
Carroll’s “tireless efforts” as co-chair of the NBII Coalition
to raise NBII visibility to trade and professional associations, NGOs,
and others.
The award underscores Carroll’s “innovative leadership.” Norton pointed specifically to Carroll’s success as both the Executive Director of CENDI, the Federal STI Managers Group, and with NBII to leverage the conservation missions of CENDI federal agencies to create new NBII partners--the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and several bureaus of the Department of Commerce.
The awards ceremony was held February 2nd in Washington, D.C.
BusinessTn Fast50 Award
In
December, IIa was named as one of Tennessee 50 fastest-growing private
companies in Tennessee. The list appears in the December 2004 issue of
Business Tennessee. According to
Business Tennessee, the companies included on the list on average
experienced a doubling of revenue in their
most
recent fiscal years, generating an aggregate top line of $1.4 billion.
Together, these businesses employ nearly 19,000 people, many of whom work
and live in
Tennessee.
"The 50 companies selected in the first Business Tennessee Fast50 feature reflect extremely well on Tennessee and the entrepreneurial talent that resides here," said David A. Fox, editor of Business Tennessee magazine. "They testify to their entrepreneurs' creativity, to the state's business diversity and to Tennessee's healthy climate for business."
To be considered, Fast50 nominees must have been in business for at least three years, generate more than $750,000 of revenue, employ five or more people, be independent and privately owned (not publicly traded or a subsidiary) and be headquartered in Tennessee.
Information International Associates Gaining Public Recognition for Excellence
(reprinted with permission from the Oak Ridger...the following article appeared in the February 10th "Progress Edition")
What started as virtually a one-woman show back in 1988 has grown to a truly international information company with staff and projects working with and influencing information from Bangkok, Lima and Paris to Albuquerque and Arlington.
Information International Associates (IIa) has grown not only in size, but also in stature - gaining public recognition for excellence at all levels of the organization.
The company's vision to be recognized as the benchmark of excellence in information management by 2010 and its commitment to managing information as a strategic resource has led to a wide array of information projects, information technology infrastructures, base operations support, research and development (R&D) strategic planning, library and information center management, and education and training support... (read full story)