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October 20, 2008 - Washington, DC UniSpec awarded prime eRecords contract with the Department of Transportation
– Washington, DC
UniSpec is establishing records management standards and processes and
assist DOT in properly maintaining and disposing official document according to NARA
standards. The eRecords support helps DOT adapt to changing laws, regulations and
mandates that have impacted records management policies, procedures, and practices
within Federal agencies.
July 2, 2008 - Washington, DC UniSpec awarded $17.1M/5yr prime contract with the
Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
UniSpec was awarded a 5yr/$17M prime contract to provide administrative and
operational support services to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration (PHMSA). UniSpec provides ongoing support services to DOT across the
continental US. These support services include services at its Headquarters location
and its regional offices. PHMSA's Headquarters is located in Washington, DC.
Regional offices are located in Des Plaines, IL; Kansas City, MO; Houston, TX;
Atlanta, GA; Ontario, CA; Lakewood, CO; West Trenton, NJ; Oklahoma City, OK and
Anchorage, AK.
January 8, 2008 - Washington, DC UniSpec awarded a $5M/5yr
Database engineering and operations subcontract to support
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
UniSpec provides full life-cycle database administrative services to the
Information Systems Division (IS) of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
(OCC) on both mainframe (IDMS and DB2) and client server (Microsoft SQL-Sever,
Sybase SQL-Server) platforms. Included these services are database modeling and
design, implementation and integration, replication, backup and recovery. These
services and a host of other related on-site and remote monitoring and
administrative services are performed in a multitude of environments (e.g.,
Development, Preview, Staging, Production, Reporting, etc.) in support of the Data
Management groups mission of high data availability.
August 30, 2007 - Washington, DC UniSpec awarded Prime
contract to support Commerce Census to support Commodity Flow Survey
publication – Washington, DC
UniSpec will provide expert management consulting services for the collection, review, and quality assurance of freight transportation characteristics necessary for the production and publication of the Commodity Flow Survey (CFS). The CFS is a component of the Economic Census and is conducted in partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Research and Innovative Technology Administration. The CFS provides the only comprehensive source of key freight transportation measures of what, where, and how goods are moving in U.S. economy across all modes of transportation.
June 15, 2007 - Washington, DC UniSpec awarded $2.5M Prime
IDIQ contract from the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)
OCIO providing Certification and Accreditation services
UniSpec is pleased to announce that IDIQ contract worth $2.5 M if all options are exercised. UniSpec served as Certification Agent for a Certification and Accreditation (C&A) project for all BIS business applications. UniSpec will be performing analysis and review, conducting interviews with BIS personnel, and preparing all deliverables in accordance with FISMA, NIST, and DOC guidance. UniSpec manages the efforts for completing a detailed inventory of all systems and system components, detailed review of BIS Enterprise Security Architecture for both high and moderate systems at Commerce, conducting a comprehensive risk assessment, conducting the system test and evaluation (ST&E), and reviewing and updating disaster recovery, continuity of operations, and risk management plans.
March 15, 2007 - Washington, DC UniSpec awarded subcontract to
support the HUD Chief Information Security Officer to develop Certification and
Accreditation packages
UniSpec was awarded a subcontract from Lockheed Martin
to support the HUD Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to develop
Certification and Accreditation packages for Microsoft Exchange. UniSpec
began the project with an initial assessment of HUD’s existing material.
UniSpec performed and facilitated all steps necessary to ensure HUD received a
Full Authorization to Operate (FATO). Due to the exceptional quality of
UniSpec’s work, HUD received an “A+” FISMA rating.
December 9, 2005 – Washington, DC UniSpec featured as
panelist at the 10th Annual NASA Mentor Protégé Conference
UniSpec was featured as guest speaker with its Mentor, LESCO, at
the 10th Annual NASA Mentor Protégé Conference. LESCO and UniSpec were
featured to discuss best practices and successes as NASA approved Mentor and
Protégé. Other panelists included Ken Bajaj of SystemsNET, Bob Frey and Dr.
Terry Tarbell of RSIS, and Kevin Howard of Boeing IT Services. The event was
held at the Crown Hamilton Hotel with over 300 in attendance.
September 14, 2005 – Richmond, VA UniSpec provides high-end Gap Analysis
work for the Federal Reserve in Enterprise Architecture and Management
UniSpec provides an Enterprise Gap Analysis and Roadmap for the
Federal Reserve IT Infrastructure. The Gap Analysis covered mission-critical
fault and configuration monitoring and management techniques for some of the
Fed’s upcoming strategic initiatives. The work involved a Quantitative
Analysis of best of breed management systems such as Micromuse NetCool,
InfoVista, and SMARTS InCharge. The Fed needed to ensure availability and
chargeback for emerging auction and retail products from its Manhattan
office.
June 24, 2005 - Washington, DC UniSpec awarded subcontract to support the NASA
Chief Security Office to develop FISMA-based Cyber security Plans
UniSpec provided high-end, strategic consulting to the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of NASA.
UniSpec is providing NIST and FISMA-compliant guidelines for the security certification and
accreditation of information systems supporting NASA enterprise-wide. This consists of the
development of 13 Master Plans that will dictate the Security Policies and Procedures NASA
wide. UniSpec leverages its qEA services to develop the C&A processes throughout the program,
for all the NIST compliant respected phases, the Initiation Phase, Security Certification Phase,
Security Accreditation Phase, and Continuous Monitoring Phase.
March 15, 2005 - Washington, DC UniSpec awarded subcontract to support NASA's
"Return to Safe Space Flight" Campaign
UniSpec is a major subcontractor to LESCO on the NASA Operational Support Services (OSS)
contract. In that role, UniSpec is performing work for national and international publication,
graphics, and branding support through the Printing and Design office. The work is instrumental
to NASA's continuous marketing and branding campaign to universities, industry, and the science
community. The program also includes support of other administrative services such as mail
handling, move services, and editor support.
January 15, 2005 - Pasadena, CA UniSpec awarded prime consulting contract through
JPL CIOs Office performing Enterprise Architecture-Operational Risk
UniSpec was awarded work a result of the "Emerging Adaptive Methodologies in Analyzing
Operational Risk". UniSpec performed high level Gap analysis work for the NASA JPL DNS
contract. The work involved analysis of network and help desk operations as well as
developing strategies for optimization and consolidation. UniSpec leveraged its qEA
(Quantitative Enterprise Analysis) product to extract and frame the data. The information
was used as a supplement to dictate strategic vision of JPL's operations contracts.
October 30, 2004 - Pasadena, CA UniSpec selected as 6 out of 160 firms to speak
at JPL High Technology Science Forum
UniSpec was chosen as 6 out of 160 firms to speak at the NASA/JPL 2004 High-Tech Science
Forum. UniSpec's speaking topic and white paper was "Emerging Adaptive Methodologies in
Analyzing Operational Risk". The High Technology conference presenters covered such topics
as Advanced Robotics, Emerging Polymer techniques, and Spacecraft Manufacturing engineering.
As an Enterprise Architecture and Risk company, UniSpec was able to provide the agency with
bleeding techniques to mitigate risks to NASA Space Missions. UniSpec executives and principals
are recognized as industry leading experts in Enterprise Architecture and Risk Management.
The presentation was featured on NASA TV and was delivered before the NASA Mission Support
community with over 2000 in attendance.
September 24, 2004 - Washington, DC UniSpec receives SBA 8(a) certification
UniSpec Enterprises, Inc. (http://www.unispec1.com) was certified by the Small Business
Administration as an 8(a) company. The certification recognizes UniSpec as a certified
small business, small and disadvantaged business and financially sound business through
September 2013.
May 30, 2004 - Jackson, Tennessee UniSpec begins buildout in the companies state-of-art Call Center at the Center for Entrepreneurial Growth and Technology Innovation (CEGTI)
UniSpec, Inc. (www.unispec1.com), the enterprise architecture, IT outsourcing, and government
solutions company, announced today that it would build a state-of-the-art Mobile Management
Operations Center (M 2 MOC). The Call Center will be built in a CEGTI incubator at Lane
College in Jackson, Tennessee. The Call Center will be located in a HUBZone and hopes to
generate over 25 jobs by June 2005. UniSpec's CEO, Wesley McClure, II states, "Being an
incubated company within the CEGTI and being collocated on a College campus offsets facilities
and G&A costs to our company. Our 5 year lease allows us to 1) focus on build premier
outsourcing products and services and 2) leverage Computer Science juniors' and seniors'
talents in our M 2 MOC. We have raised and invested the necessary capital to complete the
software prototype by years end and look forward to providing services early next year." CEGTI's
facility plans to be completed by Summer 2005.
April 30, 2004 - Jackson, TN UniSpec Accelerates Growth with $1.7M win from Department of Commerce
UniSpec, Inc. (www.unispec1.com), the enterprise architecture and IT outsourcing government
solutions company, announced today that it is the beneficiary of over $1.7M to build its
state-of-the art One.Vision Call Center. "We are extremely excited about this opportunity
to focus on technology innovation and growth for Western Tennessee," said Mr. Wesley
McClure, II, the company president. "This is yet another opportunity for us to prove the
exceptional quality and value we provide in call center outsourcing, management consulting
and enterprise architecture solutions."
This new grant co-marketed with Lane College, substantiates the One.Vision Call Center for
the next 5 years and gives the company the framework to develop enhanced managed products and
call center resources. "As the federal government chooses to partner with small businesses and
non-profits to create jobs and continue our nation's economic recovery, we see an extremely
strong market for our unique products and solutions," said Mr. McClure.
February 16, 2004 - Arlington, VA UniSpec selected to serve as experts at NSF and DHS SBIR panels as management consultant experts in enterprise architecture and IT services.
UniSpec's executive management team provided guidance in the area of electro optics and
control for the National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
program. UniSpec executive management also participated in panels for the Department of
Homeland Security and non-profit organizations. UniSpec's Chief Financial Officer, Carter
McClure, M.B.A, states, "We are pleased to continue to receive national recognition as a
niche, emerging high-end small business. As a business in our first year, we have seen
strong demand and revenue growth in our 3 rd quarter of business. We expect to break the
half million mark in our first year."
September, 18 2003 - Mitchellville, MD UniSpec wins enterprise management software development contract with Worldcom
UniSpec, Inc. (www.unispec1.com), the enterprise architecture and IT outsourcing
government solutions company, announced today that it won a contract to provided high-end
management consulting services to the WorldCom Satellite Control Center in McLean, VA. The
work will entail the development and optimization of several facets of their worldwide
solution for the FAA's Telecommunications Satellite program. UniSpec's expertise has provided
support services for this operation for years. Richard Garabedian from WorldCom states, "It is
easy to get this work sole sourced to UniSpec because of their in-depth knowledge in building
and maintaining these complex, heterogeneous systems monitoring systems. I have grown to expect
superior service from our long term relationship".
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