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NASA’s Stennis Space Center Earns Agency’s Small Business Administrator’s Cup Award

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LaToya Dean

May 18, 2017
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NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot (l) and Associate Administrator of the OSBP Glenn Delgado
NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot (l) and Associate Administrator of the Office of Small Business Programs Glenn Delgado (r) present the 2016 NASA Small Business Administrator’s Cup for small business excellence to Stennis Director Rick Gilbrech during a site visit May 17.
Stennis Office of Procurement Director Rob Harris (l) and former Stennis Small Business Specialist Robert Watts
Participants in the presentation of the 2016 NASA Small Business Administrator’s Cup on May 17 included Stennis Office of Procurement Director Rob Harris (l) and former Stennis Small Business Specialist Robert Watts. Watts received the NASA Small Business Specialist of the Year award earlier this spring for his work at Stennis. He recently accepted a position at Johnson Space Center.

NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, has been awarded the agency’s fiscal year (FY) 2016 NASA Small Business Administrator’s Cup. The award is presented annually to recognize the NASA center that has the best overall small business program. It is the second time Stennis has earned the cup in the award’s eight-year history.

Stennis first received the cup in 2011 for having the most innovative small business program in the agency. Five years later, Stennis is receiving the cup for the tremendous center-wide effort and support to promote and better integrate all small businesses in support of the Stennis programs and mission.  In FY 2016, Stennis had its most successful overall year on record with regard to the percentage of dollars awarded to small businesses.

The award was presented to Stennis Director Richard J. Gilbrech by Acting NASA Administrator Robert M. Lightfoot and Associate Administrator of the Office of Small Business Programs Glenn A. Delgado.

“The Stennis Space Center has earned this award by demonstrating, at every level, a dedication to America’s small businesses who are essential to NASA’s mission,” said Delgado, whose office sponsors the award.

“This is a great honor for Stennis Space Center and reflects the hard work and effort of our dedicated workforce,” Gilbrech said. “Small businesses are vital to both NASA and Stennis, and we are very committed to ongoing partnerships with them. This award demonstrates the depth of that commitment.”

Stennis Office of Procurement Director Rob Harris added: “The credit goes to the firm commitment from senior levels of leadership across the center, the program offices, and the Office of Procurement because everyone knows support to small business is a priority. This commitment is contagious and it permeates through all areas of the center.”

The award honors the significant contributions that the center’s senior management, program and technical personnel, and procurement office have made to the agency’s Small Business Program.

For more information about the NASA Small Business Administrator’s Cup Award and NASA’s Office of Small Business Programs, visit:

http://www.osbp.nasa.gov

To learn more about doing business with Stennis Space Center, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/stennis/home/index.html

Valerie Buckingham
Stennis Space Center
228-688-3898
valerie.d.buckingham@nasa.gov