Award Winners To Date
Government Contractor of the Year:
Under $6 Million
2009 Culmen International LLC, Dan Berkon
2010 Integrity Management Consulting, Mary Beth Romani
2011 InCadence Strategic Solutions, Sandra K. Corbett
2012 Intrepid Solutions and Services, Inc., Lawrence I. Herbert
2013 Navanti Group, LLC, Chris Conner
2014 Coverent, Jennifer Wohlander
2015 Apogee Research, Tiffany Frazier and Evan Fortunato
2016 Fusion PPT, Michael Biddick
2017 Firebird AST, Bruce MacNair
Under $7.5 Million
2018 Phoenix Operations Group, Inc., Devin Edwards
2019 Strategic Mission Elements, Inc.
2020 ShorePoint, Inc.
2021 Digital Mobilizations, Inc.
2022 Amivero
2023 Andworx, LLC
2024 Wilco Group
Government Contractor of the Year:
$6 – 12 Million
2009 Information Systems Consulting Group Inc., Danielle Johnson
2010 Culmen International LLC, Dan Berkon
2011 Onyx Government Services, Ken Jensen
2012 Foxhole Technology, Inc., Bob Toye
2013 InCadence Strategic Solutions, Anthony Iasso
2014 MindPoint Group, Inc., Patti Chanthaphone
2015 Cybermedia Technologies, Inc., Kay Ramesh and Raj Ramesh
2016 Apogee Research, LLC, Tiffany Frazier
2017 Dynamo Technologies, LLC, Vick Taneja
$7.5 - 15 Million
2018 Ridgeline International, Inc., Joe Schniebs
2019 Expedition Technology, Inc.
2020 Allegient Defense, Inc.
2021 Bravium Consulting, Inc.
2022 BryceTech, LLC
2023 Cyber Defense Technologies
2024 WebFirst, Inc
Government Contractor of the Year:
$12 – 25 Million
2009 iLuMinA Solutions Incorporated, Simone Acha
2010 SENTECH, Inc., John Chapel
2011 Solutions Made Simple, Inc., Lang Craighill
2012 Octo Consulting Group, Inc., Ben Davies
2013 Innovative Defense Technologies, Bernie Gauf
2014 MicroPact Inc., Kris Collo
2015 Atlas Research, Ryung Suh
2016 IntelliWare Systems, Inc., Dominic LaPore
2017 Spear, Inc., Richard Pineda
$15 – 27.5 Million
2018 Axiologic Solutions, LLC, Mike Chavira and Tom Stauber
2019 Assured Consulting Solutions, LLC
2020 Fenix Group, Inc.
2021 Easy Dynamics Corporation
2022 cBEYONData
2023 Royce Geo
2024 Karthik Consulting, LLC
Government Contractor of the Year:
$27.5 – 50 Million
2019 Ridgeline International, Inc.
2020 Prescient Edge
2021 Dark Wolf Solutions
2022 MetaPhase Consulting
2023 Raft
2024 Royce Geo
Award of Excellence
(Under $25 million)
2011 Atlas Research, Ryung Suh
2012 CPS Professional Services, LLC, Phil Panzarella
2013 Excella Consulting, Inc., Steve Cooper
2014 Integrity Management Consulting, Inc., Mary Beth Romani
2015 IntelliWare Systems, Inc., Allen Payne, COO
2016 Atlas Research, Mark Chichester
2017 Strategic Resolution Experts, Inc., Jeannette King
2018 Integrity Managements Services, Inc., Nisha Shajahan
(Under $50 milllion)
2019 Evans Incorporated
2020 M2 Strategy, Inc.
2021 Jovian Concepts, Inc.
2022 Goldschmitt and Associates LLC
2023 TCG, Inc
2024 Premier Enterprise Solutions, LLC
Mentor/Protégé Program of the Year
2009 A-TEK, Incorporated, Debbie Rieger (under $100 million)
2010 LMI, Manik K. Rath (under $100 million)
CACI International, Jody Brown (over $100 million)
2011 Robbins-Gioia, LaDawn Tylee-Clark (under $100 million)
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Babak Nouri (over $100 million)
2012 Attain, LLC, Greg Baroni (under $100 million)
Northrop Grumman Information Systems, Lynn Livengood (over $100 million)
2013 ASM Research, Inc., Jeri Lassiter (under $100 million)
DCS Corporation, Curtis Schehr (over $100 million)
2014 AMERICAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Joe Kopfman
2015 IBM, Luanne Pavco
2016 CACI, Steve Weiss
2017 DynCorp International, Debbie Newberry
2018 CALIBRE Systems, Inc., Joe Martore
2019 Peraton, Inc. (Submitted by GovTact, LLC)
2020 Advanced Decision Vectors, LLC
2021 Amivero (with Grant Thornton)
2022 PBG Consulting, LLC (with TCG, Inc.)
2023 Leidos (with Sure Secure Solutions)
Government Project of the Year
2013 Potomac Healthcare Solutions, William Joseph and Tom Burden
2014 Atlas Research, Mark Chichester
2015 VariQ Corporation, Ben Edson and Marcie Nagel
2016 Amyx, Inc., Satya Akula
2017 Unissant, Manish Malhotra
2018 INTEGRITYOne Partners, Steven Winkler
2019 Firebird AST
2020 NetImpact Strategies Inc.
2021 Worldwide Counter Threat Solutions, LLC
2022 Kreative Technologies
2023 INCATech LLC
2024 VivSoft Technologies LLC
Government Advocate of the Year – Honoree
2009 Michael S. Sade, GSA
2010 Kevin Boshears, Department of Homeland Security
2011 Michael O’Neill, Director of the Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) Programs at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)
2012 Sandra Broadnax, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
2013 Bridget Bean, U.S. Small Business Administration
2014 Mitchell Ross, NOAA
2015 Maria L. Kersey, Director, Office of Small Business Programs, Defense Intelligence Agency
2016 Jackie Robinson-Burnette, U.S. Small Business Administration
2017 Todd Richards, GSA
2018 Soraya Correa, DHS Office of the Chief Procurement Officer
2019 Robb Wong, U.S. Small Business Administration
2020 Jeffrey Hale, NOAA Acquisition & Grants Office
2021 Roderick Johnson, U.S. Small Business Administration
2022 John Klein, U.S. Small Business Administration
2023 Mitchell Winans, Internal Revenue Service
2024 Darlene Bullock, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
SECAF’s Special Recognition Award
2014 VariQ Corporation, Ben Edson
2015 Business Information Technology Solutions Inc., Dan McQuay
2016 KnowledgeBank, Michele Borg
2017 Nationwide IT Services, Inc., C.K. Park
2018 Renegade Technology, LLC, Dan Smith
2019 InCadence Strategic Solutions, Anthony Iasso
2020 De Lune Corp
2021 Excel Technologies
2022 DroneShield
2023 Dignari
2024 Coforma
Executive of the Year
2020 Rui Garcia, Acuity Inc.
2021 Rick Tossavainen, Dark Wolf Solutions, LLC
2022 Aaron Moak, PingWind
2023 Olivia Trivisani Bowker, Amivero
Under $25M
2024 Cheryl Gordon, Integrity Management Services, Inc.
$25M - $50M
2024 Marc Goldschmitt, Goldschmitt and Associates LLC
SECAF’s Advocate of the Year
2016 Kathy Albarado, Helios HR
2017 Sue Evans, Evans Incorporated
2018 Richard Pineda, Spear Inc.
2019 Mark Melton, Cordia Partners
2020 Curt Anderson, E-Innovation Global, LLC
2021 Devon Hewitt, Protorae Law
2022 Veronica Vannoy, CORDIA
2023 Jon Williams, PilieroMazza
2024 Matthew Agresti, EagleBank