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April 2014: NSAWW is excited to announce that CEO Courtney Banks Spaeth has been selected as a finalist for the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce’s 2014 Outstanding Corporate Citizenship Awards! The Outstanding Corporate Citizenship Awards attract the region’s top senior executives, elected officials, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and emerging influential leaders as they join together to honor business leadership and above-and-beyond corporate social responsibility (CSR). Mrs. Spaeth is honored to have been selected by the Chamber as a finalist for the Executive of the Year award, along with Kathy Albarado, President and CEO of Helios HR; Lovely Hammel, Co-founder and President of Emloyment Entreprises, Inc Tim Sargeant, Manager of State and Local Affairs at Dominion; and Raul "Danny” Vargas, President of VARCom Solutions, LLC, and is looking forward to the June 17th award ceremony. It will be an exceptional event, and Mrs. Spaeth is proud to have been nominated alongside such inspirational leaders.

March 2014: NSAWW is proud to announce its newest client, Blue Beacon Consulting Inc., a fast-growing information technology (IT) consulting firm that provides innovative IT solutions to government organizations and private industry clients looking to manage the design, development, implementation, and growth of their online operations.

Blue Beacon Consulting is a private, minority-owned small business led by former Accenture executive Jeff Wynne, whose clients have included government agencies such as the US Department of Agriculture and the General Services Administration, as well as private companies such as Verizon and Johnson & Johnson. The Blue Beacon consulting team has over 20 years of experience helping clients improve their service delivery models, simplify their processes, and maximize efficiency and effectiveness. Their core strengths lie in CRM, content management, and web technologies. Blue Beacon Consulting also offers services in the areas of internet strategic planning and governance, customer data integration, program management, business process transformation, business case/ROI justification, and full life-cycle development, as well as quality assurance and web metrics.

March 2014: NSAWW is proud to announce that Chief Executive Officer, Courtney Banks Spaeth has been selected by the Business and Professional Women’s Foundation to receive the 2014 Joining Forces Mentoring Plus "Angel” Outreach Award in honor of her significant efforts to raise awareness and cultivate support for the Joining Forces Mentoring Plus program through her personal and professional networks.

The ceremony, which will take place on March 18th at the U.S. Navy Memorial, is part of the BPW Foundation’s Women’s History Month Celebration and will feature First Lady Michelle Obama as the honorary chair and NBC4’s Erika Gonzalez as the moderator. Alliant Credit Union, Booz Allen Hamilton, and BPW North Carolina will be honored alongside Mrs. Spaeth in recognition of their own contributions to the Joining Forces Mentoring Plus program. The ceremony will also feature two career development panels focusing on social media and other valuable tools in the civilian workplace, and will be followed by a networking and awards reception.

March 2014: Courtney B. Spaeth, CEO, NSAWW is pleased to be moderating the panel on "Growing and Selling Security Businesses in Today's Environment" at the ASIS NYC Security Conference and Expo. Barry Kopelson, Senior Partner, NSAWW will also be participating as a panelist. The other panelists are Duane Dobson, Executive, Ernst and Young; Joe Golden, Senior Executive, The McLean Group; Scott Heimberg, Partner, Akin Gump; and France Hoang, Chief Strategy Officer, MAG.

March 2014: Rear Admiral Branham joins NSAWW after a nearly forty year career with the United States Coast Guard in various executive positions. Prior to joining NSAWW, Rear Admiral Branham was most recently the Vice President of Government Relations at Witt O’Brien’s where he was responsible for relationship building and maintenance across a broad spectrum of federal and state agencies to raise awareness of the company’s products and services. Previous to this, Rear Admiral Branham was Executive Vice President for Government Services at O’Brien’s Response Management where he led his division to a much higher state of readiness, training, and capability to ensure timely and accurate assistance to regions, states and communities in dealing with the impacts of Hurricanes Isaac & Sandy, Tropical Storms Irene & Debby, and major ice storms in Massachusetts.

February 2014: NSAWW is pleased to announce the hiring of Nicole West as advisor to the Chief Executive Officer, Courtney Banks Spaeth. Mrs. West is a Senior Operating Executive with extensive experience in business management, strategy development, marketing/communications, operations and technology for both mature and early stage companies.

February 2014: Mr. Stamps joins NSAWW with over 40 years of executive experience with large, midsize, and startup companies in both the federal and commercial markets. Over the course of his long and distinguished career Mr. Stamps has created successful new businesses, served on boards of directors and advisors, managed sales and national account programs for Fortune 500 companies, and has been the top executive in sales, marketing, and customer service organizations.

February 2014: Mr. Kwolek joins NSAWW after a long and distinguished career with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense bringing extensive geospatial intelligence, program management, acquisition and budget expertise.

Previously, Mr. Kwolek served over three decades with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and its predecessor agencies, retiring as a Senior Executive. His most recent assignment with that agency was as the Deputy Director, NGA Defense-Pentagon where he developed strategic plans transitioning customers from hardcopy and media to a digital environment for combat support, intelligence, and humanitarian assistance/disaster relief. Prior to Deputy Director , Mr. Kwolek was the Interim Deputy Chief Information Officer for the NGA where he served as Geospatial Information Executive representing the DoD and NGA on Geospatial issues and was responsible for leading IT Strategic Planning, IT Policy development, IT budget, and Cyber Defense. He also held a two year Federal advisory position with National Geospatial Advisory Committee for Department of Interior Director.

January 2014: Mr. Bergeron joins NSAWW after a long and distinguished career in the intelligence community bringing extensive program management and budgetary formulation expertise as well as a great deal of leadership acumen and IT executive experience.

Previously, Mr. Bergeron served as a Vice President at Altamira Corporation, where he oversaw the merger of two predecessor companies, Invertix and Near Infinity, into a single unit. Before joining Altamira Corporation Mr. Bergeron held several senior positions at the CIA, first as Chief of Ground Systems Contracts Teams, then as Chief of Agency IT Acquisition Strategy, and finally as Chief/Deputy Chief of DS/Non-Traditional Support. While at the CIA he worked on numerous projects to enhance officer profiles and to reduce costs and administrative burdens for overseas officers. Additionally, he pioneered the application of Alpha Contracting for the National Reconnaissance Office and was responsible for creating and managing a cohesive team of Air Force, CIA, DoD civilian and Naval officers, the largest contracting team at the NRO.

January 2014: NSAWW is proud to announce the addition of its CEO, Courtney Banks Spaeth, to the Board of Directors for the Greater Washington Board of Trade. The Board of Trade is the largest network of business and non-profit leaders in the Greater Washington area and the only regional organization representing all industry sectors. Founded in 1889, the Board of Trade enjoys a long history of creating and maintaining a business climate that is healthy, inviting and profitable for the regional business community and the community at large. The Board of Trade is pro-business and bipartisan, and convenes business, nonprofit and government leaders to collaborate on important issues throughout Greater Washington. Its current initiatives include improving regional Telecom, promoting sustainability for regional businesses and the environment, marketing Greater Washington’s economic opportunities through its affiliate - the Greater Washington Initiative - which promotes the area as a vibrant place to live and work, as well as attracting and retaining a talented workforce for the region.