S3 News:

CACI, INC.-FEDERAL, Chantilly, VA has been selected for a prime contract award for the Rapid Response Third Generation (R2-3G) contract:

Jul 30 2010 / Huntsville, AL – CACI, INC.-FEDERAL, Chantilly, VA has been selected for a prime contract award for the Rapid Response Third Generation (R2-3G) contract to be issued by the U.S. Army Program Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command (CE-LCMC). S3 is a member of the Team CACI on this award. This IDIQ vehicle provides critical equipment and support services to government system, platform and item managers worldwide. Together, Team CACI and the R23G contract will provide unique and flexible acquisition and technical expertise and deliver a capable, agile resource for rapidly meeting U.S. Army needs anytime, anywhere, around the world. S3, a woman owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, AL, was incorporated in 1993 by its CEO, Ms. Jan Smith. Today, S3 has over 400 employees, performs technical services for the US Army, US Marines and NASA, and operates at thirty government and prime contractor duty sites, both CONUS and OCONUS. S3 has three core business units: Training, Sustainment & Logistics; Acquisition, ILS, Programmatics, Systems Engineering, Test & Evaluation; and Army & Joint Transformation. S3’s Quality Management Program includes certification for both ISO 9000:2001 and AS9100 (Aerospace). More information to follow.

System Studies & Simulation Receives 2010 Best of Killeen Award:

Jul 14 2010 / Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

System Studies & Simulation Receives 2010 Best of Killeen Award

U.S. Commerce Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement

NEW YORK, NY, July 7, 2010 -- System Studies & Simulation has been selected for the 2010 Best of Killeen Award in the General Contractors category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).

The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2010 USCA Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties.

About U.S. Commerce Association (USCA)

U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) is a New York City based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USCA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising.

The USCA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America.

SOURCE: U.S. Commerce Association

CONTACT:
U.S. Commerce Association
Email: PublicRelations@uscaaward.com
URL: http://www.uscaaward.com

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S3 received a major National Guard Bureau Army National Guard Aviation and Safety Division Support Services contract:

Apr 24 2010 / Huntsville, AL - S3 received a major National Guard Bureau Army National Guard Aviation and Safety Division Support Services contract on April 12, 2010. This is a full and open single-award GSA Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for ARNG Aviation support services and activities, including flight training service support for both aircrew and non-aircrew personnel, both CONUS and OCONUS, joint transformation, force integration, staff analysis, training management, facilities development, program development, and budget execution at seven locations. The ARNG BPA has a ceiling of $95M over five years and is the eighth similar contract vehicle to be awarded to S3 in the last three years. S3, a woman owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, AL, was incorporated in 1993 by its CEO, Ms. Jan Smith. Today, S3 has over 400 employees, performs technical services for the US Army, US Marines and NASA, and operates at thirty government and prime contractor duty sites, both CONUS and OCONUS. S3 has three core business units: Training, Sustainment & Logistics; Acquisition, ILS, Programmatics, Systems Engineering, Test & Evaluation; and Army & Joint Transformation. S3’s Quality Management Program includes certification for both ISO 9000:2001 and AS9100 (Aerospace). S3 has amassed a group of 100+ pilots in support of helicopter classroom, cockpit, and simulator training requirements.

S3 Receives Space and Missile Defense Initiative Support (SMDIS) III, Scientific, Engineering, and Technical Assistance (SETA) Services Contract Award:

Nov 17 2009 / Huntsville, AL – The Armed Forces Strategic Command (ARSTRAT), Peterson AFB, CO has issued four (4) small business awards of the SMDIS III SETA Services Contract, one of which is awarded to System Studies and Simulation, Inc. (S3). Awarded on September 9, 2009, SMDIS is an ID/IQ contract providing technical advisory and assistance services to SMDC and its customers’ managed systems, equipment and technology. SMDIS III has a ceiling of $450M ?? over five years. SMDIS III is the seventh such similar contract vehicle to be awarded to S3 in the last three years. The others include AMCOM EXPRESS – Technical Domain BPA, FORSCOM’s FIRST contract, SMDC/ARSTRAT’s SETAC 07, NAVSEA’s Seaport-E, and S3 received both a Full & Open and a Small Business Set Aside award in PEO STRI’s STOC II. S3, a woman owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, AL, was incorporated in 1993 by its President and CEO, Ms. Jan Smith. Today, S3 has 400 employees, performs technical services for the US Army, US Marines and NASA, and operates at thirty government and prime contractor duty sites, both CONUS and OCONUS. S3 has three core business units: Training & Logistics; Acquisition, ILS, Programmatics, Systems Engineering, Test & Evaluation; and Army & Joint Transformation. S3’s Quality Management Program includes certification for both ISO 9000:2001 and AS9100 (Aerospace).

S3 Awarded Army Security Assistance Training Subcontract by NGC:

Oct 16 2009 / (Herndon, Va., October 13, 2009) -- The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command and the Mission and Installation Contracting Command Center has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) a contract to support the U.S. Army Security Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor, partnered with System Studies and Simulations, Huntsville, Ala.; NEK Advanced Securities Group, Albuquerque, N.M.; and RLM Communications, Fayetteville, N.C. Assistance Training Management Organization (USASATMO). Under the terms of the five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity multiple-award contract, which has a ceiling value of $140 million, Northrop Grumman will support training, logistics and maintenance of selected friendly foreign military and paramilitary forces through the use of security assistance teams. S3 has the aviation training support. USASATMO deploys and sustains security assistance teams in support of U.S. foreign policy and national interests. Teams are organized to support mobile training, extended training service and technical assistance. These teams provide technical and training support as well as assistance to foreign military forces using equipment and technology supplied by the United States.

The National Guard Bureau has awarded a Flight Training Services award to System Studies & Simulation, Inc., (S3):

Sep 18 2009 /

Awarded on Sept 1, 2009, S3 will provide services consisting of Flight Training, Flight Training support, and Flight Training Service Support for both aircrew and non-aircrew personnel, at Fort Rucker, Alabama. In recognition of the fact that every flight training need cannot be foreseen for the entire life of this contract, particularly due to rapidly changing technology, changing national strategic interests, and Army restructuring, budgetary and personnel realities, a certain degree of flexibility toward future flight training requirements is needed. To meet future flight training service needs of the Army, as the changing needs of the Government may dictate, S3 will provide certain flight training services under this contract to other flight training, flight training support and/or flight training service support activities. As the Government needs may change, S3 will provide similar academic training services using advanced classroom technologies or new and emerging academic technology in other flight training, flight training support or flight training service support activities; similar flight simulator training services in other aircraft systems or categories including present, new or emerging aircraft or other simulator systems; similar aircraft flight training services in other aircraft systems or categories including present, new or emerging aircraft. In addition, S3 eventually may include new flight training service requirements; past examples being aircraft transition training, combat skills training, aircrew coordination training, and night vision devices training; future examples may include, but not limited to, flight training support in the UH-60M and CH-47F.



EXPRESS - Technical Domain Award:

Aug 21 2009 / Press Release Date: 8-18-09 S3 POC: Tracey Edmonds Telephone: 256-539-1700 x 225 Fax: 256-539-8015 Email: Tracey.Edmonds@s3inc.com S3 (System Studies and Simulation, Inc.) 615 Discovery Drive Huntsville, AL 35806 Woman Owned, Small Business The press release below from S3 (System Studies and Simulation, Inc.) is for the Business Announcement Section. For additional information or clarification, please contact Tracey Edmonds. System Studies and Simulation, Inc (S3) Receives EXPRESS – Technical Domain Award Huntsville, AL – The Army Contracting Command (ACC), Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) Contracting Center, has awarded an Expedited Professional and Engineering Support Services (EXPRESS) Blanket Purchase Agreement in its Technical Domain to System Studies and Simulation, Inc. (S3). Awarded on May 12, 2009, the BPA under the EXPRESS Technical Domain is a set of BPAs providing technical advisory and assistance services to AMCOM and its customers’ managed systems, equipment and technology. The EXPRESS BPA has unlimited award terms. S3 received one of seven new BPA awards in the Technical Domain. The other domains include Logistics, Programmatic and Business & Analytical. S3 is a Team Member under multiple prime contractors currently performing in those domains. The EXPRESS Technical BPA is the sixth such similar contract vehicle to be awarded to S3 in the last three years. The others include FORSCOM’s FIRST contract, SMDC/ARSTRAT’s SETAC 07, NAVSEA’s Seaport- E, and S3 received both a Full & Open and a Small Business Set Aside award in PEO STRI’s STOC II. S3, a woman owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, AL, was incorporated in 1993 by its President and CEO, Ms. Jan Smith. Today, S3 has 370 employees, performs technical services for the US Army, US Marines and NASA, and operates at thirty government and prime contractor duty sites, both CONUS and OCONUS. S3 has three core business units: Training, Sustainment & Logistics; Acquisition, ILS, Programmatics, Systems Engineering, Test & Evaluation; and Army & Joint Transformation. S3’s Quality Management Program includes certification for both ISO 9000:2001 and AS9100 (Aerospace).

Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce Small Business Awards:

Aug 29 2008 / August 21, 2008 / The Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County’s 23rd annual Small Business Awards Celebration occurred 21 August 2008. The Small Business Awards recognize, support, and inspire the small business community to turn their dreams into realities. The awards recognize small businesses in four categories: Business Services/Wholesale, Personal Services/Retail, Technology, and Construction & Manufacturing. S3 was nominated in the Technology category and took first place in that category. Additionally, the Chamber recognizes the non-profit organization of the year, entrepreneur of the year, and young professional of the year. Jan Smith, President/CEO of S3 won the Entrepreneur of the Year award. This was the first time in the history of the awards that the same company took both a category and Entrepreneur awards. Jan was chosen from more than 90 contenders representing companies, nonprofit organizations and executives from the Huntsville area. She also was named a Business Fellow by UA Huntsville, a recognition awarded at the event each year. "It has been a terrific ride," Smith said of the 15 years the company has been in business. She thanked her employees for the firm's success, and said Huntsville is "a great entrepreneurial city."

Army Aviation Materiel Readiness Award for Contribution by a Small Business 2007:

Feb 18 2008 / On February 14th, S3 was awarded the “Army Aviation Materiel Readiness Award for Contribution by a Small Business” for the company’s efforts in support of the U.S. Army in 2007. The citation below was read at AAAA’s 34th Annual Aviation Product Symposium held in Huntsville, AL. “S3, Inc. made significant contributions to the materiel and operational readiness of Army Aviation in 2007. From its worldwide activities fielding the Common Missile Warning System (CMWS) to providing hand-on-training to Army pilots enabling them to become Maintenance Test Pilots, to saving soldiers’ lives, limbs and eyesight through its MEDEVAC operations, S3 has helped the U.S. Army and Army Aviation sustain and improve its materiel and operational readiness. S3’s many activities throughout CONUS, Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan set the standard for what a highly motivated, small, agile, well-led company can do in support of our Nation’s defense. A few examples of S3’s many contributions include conducting maintenance test flights of Army aircraft in Iraq as well as training soldiers in Afghanistan on how to move aircraft by strategic air. S3, with its strong corporate commitment to our nation’s defense and its three-hundred and fifty dedicated professionals, made significant contributions to Army Aviation’s materiel readiness well beyond all proportion to the size of the company. Few companies, large or small, have contributed so much to the material readiness of Army Aviation over such a wide range of endeavors as S3. They are truly deserving of the 2007 AAAA Army Aviation Material Readiness Award for Contribution by a Small Business.” During Jan’s acceptance remarks, she credited the award to the efforts of the entire S3 aviation team, as well as S3 employees working in support of the CMWS and JAMS offices. She said S3 employees do great work because they know it makes a positive difference for our soldiers who are fighting around the world on our behalf.

SETAC Contract Award:

Dec 21 2007 / System Studies and Simulation, Inc (S3) Receives System Engineering & Technical Assistance Contract (SETAC) Award Huntsville, AL – The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command has awarded a System Engineering & Technical Assistance Contract (SETAC) to System Studies and Simulation, Inc. (S3). S3, a woman owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, AL, was incorporated in 1993 by its President and CEO, Ms. Jan Smith. Today, S3 has 355 employees, performs technical services for Army and NASA, and operates at thirty government and prime contractor duty sites, both CONUS and OCONUS. S3 has six core business units: Logistics, Program Integration, Information Technology, Training, Strategic Planning/Transformation, and Technical/Engineering Support. S3’s Quality Management Program includes certification for both ISO 9000:2001 and AS9100 (Aerospace). SETAC, awarded on December 6, 2007, is a five year, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract. SETAC sustains operations for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT), and other Army and Department of Defense organizations supported by the Command. The purpose of this contract is for engineering support services, including independent assessments, analyses, software verification, simulations and special studies associated with USASMDC/ARSTRAT missions. SETAC has a combined award contract ceiling value of $247.5 Million. S3 was one of three small business led teams selected for contract award. S3’s TEAM S3 for SETAC 07 includes: • 5D Systems • ARINC • Axiom • BR2C • C4Tech • DCS Corporation • Delta Research • Future Research • LogiCore • L-3 TCS • MagnaCom • Oceaneering • Osborne Technologies • Penta Research • Polaris Sensor Technologies • Quantum • RAM • Sentar • Shearer Associates • Sparta • SpecOps • SRA • Synectic Solutions • Tyonek Manufacturing, LLC • Unisys Corporation • Visidyne • VisionCentric

ISO/AS9100 Certification:

Nov 16 2006 / On December 5, 2006, we celebrated our AS9100 and ISO9001:2000 Certification with a ceremony and lunch in the Main Conference Room. Presenting our Certificate of Certification and a Banner announcing our AS9100 Certification were: Henry Burdg, Director of the Alabama Technology Directorate and Acting Associate Dean - College of Business Outreach, Auburn University, Ronny Kisor, Center Director of the Alabama Technology Network, and Chris Anderson, Project Engineer for the Alabama Technology Network. Following Jan’s comments, the following S3 employees were recognized for their contributions to achieving AS9100 and ISO9001:2000 Certification: Pat Miller, Klaus Yager, Donna Culver, Dianna Dabbs, Sarah Knowles, Curtis Ballard, Betty Ragsdale, Katherine Stem, Keisha Shankles, and John Briggs. Congratulations to all for your efforts in helping us achieve this major milestone! It demonstrates to our customers, S3’s commitment to quality support and continuous improvement, while concurrently providing a discriminator that sets us apart from most other companies and will assist us in securing new work and growing the Company.