The Department of Defense (DOD) announced the fiscal year
2019 Nunn-Perry Awards winners today, recognizing excellence in the DOD Mentor
Protégé Program.
DOD Mentor Protégé Program participants deliver capabilities
across major defense programs in support of the warfighter. Recipients of the
Nunn-Perry Award excel in protégé growth and development.
The DOD Mentor Protégé Program was established Nov. 5, 1990,
in response to concerns raised by DOD prime contractors regarding their
inability to meet Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) subcontracting goals. At
the time, many SDBs lacked the technical capabilities to meet DOD subcontract
requirements.
Mr. Shannon Jackson, Deputy Director of the Office of Small
Business Programs within the Office of Industrial Policy, congratulated the
winners and discussed the important collaborative roles that mentors, protégés,
and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) play in our nation’s
small business economy and the defense industrial base.
''The Department of Defense and the American economy succeed
because of the innovations borne from small companies like those in the DOD
Mentor Protégé Program," said Jackson. "Within the defense industrial
base these companies work to deliver cutting edge technologies and services
that challenge the status quo and have the capacity to shape the future of
their respective industries. In order to create these capabilities to support
the warfighter, their companies have to deliver more than technology or
services."
The program looks forward to celebrating the accomplishments
of the winners, listed below, at the 2020 Mentor Protégé Training Week. The
award is named for the contributions of Senator Sam Nunn and former Secretary
of Defense William Perry, who both played critical roles in the implementation
of the DOD Mentor Protégé Program.
"The DOD Mentor Protégé Program helps innovators grow
as companies to meet the growing and shifting demands of the warfighter and the
Department. The Nunn-Perry Award pauses to highlight the companies that have
navigated that challenging transition from capability to company above and
beyond their peers. Congratulations to this year's award recipients,'' said
Jackson.
Award Recipients:
- Air Force: IBM, Steel Point Solutions, Morgan State University
- Air Force: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Marvin Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso
- Army: System Studies & Simulation, R2C, J.F. Drake State Community & Technical College and Oakwood University
- DIA: Global Resource Solutions, Advanced Decision Vectors, A&M College of Business and Southern University
- MDA, Parsons Government Services, Mb Solutions, Alabama State University
- MDA, Raytheon Company, Kord Technologies, Bethune-Cookman University and Oakwood University
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