Sonja Alexander

Headquarters, Washington, DC September 30, 1997

(Phone: 202/358-1761)

RELEASE: 97-221

NASA NAMES MINORITY CONTRACTORS OF THE YEAR

NASA has named two small firms as minority contractor and

subcontractor of the year for their exceptional contributions
to the nation�s space program.

Dynacs Engineering Company, Inc., Clearwater, FL, was named

NASA Small Disadvantaged Business Contractor of the Year and
Micro Craft, Inc., Tullahoma, TN, Small Disadvantaged Business
Subcontractor of the Year.

Dynacs Engineering Company, nominated by NASA�s Johnson

Space Center, Houston, TX, was recognized for providing complex
technical and management support for the integration of Russian
cooperative activities into the International Space Station
Program. Dynacs provides systems engineering and integration
for Phase 1 experiments and demonstrations, including
experiment definition, subsystem evaluations, safety
assessments, and Shuttle and Mir systems integration and
verification planning. Dynacs Engineering was founded in 1985
by its current President and CEO, Dr. Ramen Singh.

Micro Craft, Inc. was nominated for Small Disadvantaged

Business Subcontractor of the Year by Sverdup Technology, Inc.,
Huntsville, AL, a prime contractor to NASA�s Marshall Space
Flight Center, Huntsville, AL. Under a subcontract with
Sverdup Technology, Inc., Micro Craft supports the Computers
and Data Systems Division of the Astrionics Laboratory in the
design and development of a Space Station Furnace Facility
ground test system, X-ray calibration facility master-control
computer, and data archival/retrieval system. Ms. Fran Folk
Marcum is the Chief Executive Officer of the company, which was
founded in 1958.

NASA also awarded three of its employees the Exceptional

Achievement Medal for their significant support of the Agency�s
socio-economic business programs in the small business,
technical, and procurement arenas. Recognized were Tom May,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, and Steve Craig and
Aloysius Hepp from the Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH.

In addition, four Centers were recognized for meeting or

exceeding all of their negotiated small business goals for
Fiscal Year 1996. They were the Ames Research Center, Mountain
View, CA, the Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS,
the Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH, and the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Ken Szalai, Director,
Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, along with
Hernandez Engineering, Inc., Houston, TX, and Reggie Williams,
President, Procurement Resources, Inc., Atlanta, GA, received
special recognition awards.

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