David Alan Smith, Lisa Cooper and Pete Rodriguez were thrilled to recognize several top performing employees on our NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Integrated Program Support Services (MIPSS) Configuration Management/Data Management (CM/DM) contract at last week's MIPSS All Hands meeting.
Sustained Superior Performance Award
Vern Crouch for his continued exceptional support to the Space Launch System (SLS) Program as the JICB/SICB/SERB Secretariat.
On the Spot Awards
Cindi Thomas, Courtney Greene, Meredith Miller, Tammie Hughes and Marcella Logan for exceptional CM/DM support to the SLS Spacecraft/Payload Integration & Evolution (SPIE) element.
Dawn James for excellent support to the SLS Block 1B Flight Software Critical Design Review.
Laura I. for consistent excellence and dedicated focus as the lead for the Jira databases for the SLS Program. 

Victory Solutions is proud to have served as a sponsor for “Dine with a Purpose” benefiting the non-profit Patterson Place, an innovative vocational community providing adults with special needs meaningful service and work opportunities. The event celebrated the amazing participants in the Patterson Place program and the educational environment offered to empower them to engage in meaningful jobs, build a sense of belonging and validate dignity and respect for these special needs adults. Thanks to Patterson Place for the incredible work they are doing making a difference in our community!

Small Victories made multiple donations to local charities just in time for the holidays with proceeds raised and matched by the company from the annual Christmas party fundraising raffle. Checks were delivered to Kids to Love foster care services, the New Futures homeless shelter, the Manna House food distribution program and the Veterans Initiative Program committed to eradicating veteran homelessness. We're fortunate to able to give back to the community through these wonderful local charities who do so much to help those in need in our area.

Three of our Systems Engineering Technology (SET) interns from Calhoun Community College, Anthony Sanders, Kevin Calderon and Collin Langseth, were awarded On the Spot awards from company president David Alan Smith for their excellent MBSE support provided to Boeing and the Missile Defense Agency while working on the GMD System Integration, Test, and Readiness (SITR) contract. Anthony, Kevin and Collin have been recognized by the customer for their professional attitudes, understanding and adaptability to assignments, and high quality of work. Congratulations!

Welcome to our visiting veteran heroes for Heroes Week 2023! Victory Vets, our Veterans Employee Resource Group, and Small Victories, our employee-led community support group, organized participation in the Heroes Week Welcome event at the Port of Huntsville - Huntsville International Airport. Heroes Week is sponsored by the SEMPER FI COMMUNITY TASK FORCE of North Alabama and provides the Tennessee Valley/Northern Alabama communities the chance to show their deep appreciation and recognition of these service members, their families, and caregivers. Guests are honored at events throughout the week including the Huntsville Veterans’ Day Breakfast and Parade, Marine Corps Birthday Ball, a Yacht Cruise/Dinner on Lake Guntersville and several lunches and dinners hosted by local organizations and businesses. Pictured are Laura Richerson, Lisa Cooper, Carol Sivley, Susan Heeschen, Dan Hicks, Marcus Craig, Diana Poling, Beverly Toney, Pete Rodriguez, Jason Browne, Tina Trafford, and Jenna Hensley.

Victory Solutions held a Ten + Year Anniversary lunch honoring employees with ten or more years of service at Bravo Italian Kitchen yesterday. Employees enjoyed a family style Italian lunch with Kris McGuire, CEO, and David Alan Smith, President, recognizing each employee individually. Many great memories were shared and a wonderful time was had by all!
Lisa Cooper, Angie McCrary, Pete Rodriguez, Chris McLemore, Sivley Carol, David Alan Smith, Terri Lovett, Karen Owens, Beverly Toney, Dan Hicks, Jason Browne, Laura Prater, Dannie Cochran, kris mcguire, Bob Riggle, David Parker, Vern Crouch, Kasondra Gipson, Todd Cumming

Victory Solutions is honored to have received the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center 2023 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award at the Marshall Small Business Alliance Meeting and MSFC FY23 Industry and Advocate Awards. The award is in recognition of the exemplary performance provided to the MSFC Engineering Directorate and Space Launch System Program Office under the Configuration and Data Management Contract. Kris McGuire, Founder and CEO, and Dr. Pete Rodriguez, Chief Technology Officer, accepted the award. Thanks to all of our employees and teammates whose hard work, dedication and outstanding performance led to receipt of this prestigious award.

A little rain on Saturday didn't stop our Small Victories team as they volunteered at the Enable Madison County Vegetable Garden! Volunteers harvested and packaged 16 bags of fresh vegetables for delivery to senior citizens and the homebound in our community. The team was also able to help with weeding and applying insect repellant to the plants. Learn more about the many worthwhile services Enable provides at https://lnkd.in/e2-zQ3Nz
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Kudos to our Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) Team for well-deserved recognition of their outstanding efforts in support of the 2022/2023 in-port period for SBX! Jason Matricardi was recognized for his exceptional contributions as SBX-1 Mission Director during a challenging 120-day maintenance period. Kevin Miller was recognized for exceptional contributions in the installation and integration of the new SBX Satellite Communications (SATCOM) System. Kenneth Easley, Matthew Witte and Chris Outlaw were recognized for exceptional contributions in the preparation and execution of the Cooperative Vulnerability Test of the Non Mission Communications (NMC) Network.  Developed by the Missile Defense Agency, the SBX radar is designed to detect, track, and discriminate incoming threats and provide data to ground-based interceptors as part of the Ballistic Missile Defense System.

We appreciate all of your efforts on this vital component of our nation's missile defense system. Congratulations!
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