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• 30 June 2009: HPTi Wins Best Overall Company of the Year at American Business Awards

  High Performance Technologies, Inc., (HPTi) was named “Best Overall Company” at the 7th Annual American Business Awards, also known as the “Stevies.” HPTi's recognition comes on the heels of its winning the prestigious National Capital Business Ethics Award and the Medallion of Performance Excellence from Virginia's U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award program.
  
  Joining the company in the Stevies winners' circle was Rebecca Jimenez—HPTi's 2008 Employee of the Year—who was named the Best Technical Professional in the country. Ms. Jimenez specializes in program protection planning for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, and her insights have had a direct impact on multi-billion dollar programs at the Department of Defense.
  
  “Rebecca is the benchmark by which HPTi recruits new college hires,” stated Peter Lierni, Ms. Jimenez's manager.
  
  “Despite the economy faltering,” HPTi's President Timothy Keenan added, “we've continued to enjoy strong revenue growth. That growth and our recognition at the Stevies stem from the extraordinary contributions of our employees. Rebecca exemplifies the talent and dedication of HPTi's workforce.”
  
  This is the third consecutive year that HPTi's Employee of the Year has won a Stevie, and the second consecutive year that an HPTi employee has won the Stevie for Best Technical Professional.
  
  HPTi was also a finalist for Best Community Service Committee, and nearly a dozen HPTi employees were finalists in categories such as Best Corporate Communicator, Best Customer Service Executive, Best Finance Executive, and Best Human Resources Executive.
  
  Hailed as “the business world's own Oscars” (New York Post , April 27, 2005), the American Business Awards is the only national, all-encompassing awards program honoring great performance in business.

• 15 June 2009: HPTi's Healtcare Practice Wins $2.2M Award

  HPTi has been awarded a four-year, $2.2 million prime contract with options representing a potential for $12.8 million to support the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Office of Service Coordination (SC) Service Level Agreement (SLA) Program. The base contract period begins June 12, 2009. We have teamed for this work with Bruce Amato Associates.
  
  HPTi will staff the SC Office, which oversees the entire SLA lifecycle, including development, review, implementation, maintenance, and management of SLAs. The SC office works closely with OI&T and VHA to establish and apply SLA processes to address the delivery of core IT services. In addition, SC works directly with VHA business owners to collect, document, and communicate specific program requirements in the SLA process.
  
  This win extends HPTi's presence in the VHA. We currently support this important client in the areas of program management, software development, and enterprise technology & planning. This win is another opportunity for HPTi and the Healthcare Practice to advance our core mission of serving the nation's veterans.

• 15 June 2009: HPTi President Wins 2009 Smart CEO Circle of Excellence Award

  Tim Keenan, HPTi President and CEO, has received a Washington SmartCEO 2009 Circle of Excellence Award, which recognizes 10 Greater Washington CEOs who have demonstrated specific leadership attributes that have made them uniquely successful in the business community. Tim was recognized by SmartCEO for his Leadership role within HPTi, and his accomplishments are highlighted in the June 2009 issue of SmartCEO.
  
  The 10 winners of the Circle of Excellence Award were celebrated at SmartCEO's Circle of Excellence Awards event on June 11, 2009, alongside the year's past winners of programs including: Future 50, SmartCPAs, SmartLawyers, BRAVA! Women in Business, SmartCIOs and SmartCFOs.
  
  The Circle of Excellence categories for which CEOs were nominated and honored are: Nonprofit, Marketing Excellence, Leadership, Resilience, Going Green, CEO 30 and Under, Innovative Approach, Philanthropic/Community, Strategic Excellence, Customer Service.
  
  “Circle of Excellence winners are not only selected and honored for their accomplishments, but for demonstrating success in applying a unique leadership attribute that significantly benefits their business and the community,” said Jaime Park, Publisher of Washington SmartCEO magazine. “We are honored to recognize Tim Keenan as one of Greater Washington's standout leaders.”
  
  TheWashington SmartCEO magazine is a regional “growing company” publication. SmartCEO believes that a “growing company” is really determined by the spirit, drive, and dynamics of a company's owners and managers, rather than by the size of its building, the number of its employees, or its sales volume. Each month, a variety of businesses in the greater Washington and greater Baltimore areas turn to our pages for features, case-study advice and trend analysis, all with a uniquely local flavor. SmartCEO is read by more than 34,000 business owners in Baltimore and Washington.
  
  For a complete list of winners, visit www.SmartCEO.com.

• 08 June 2009: HPTi Receives Virginia's Top Quality Award

  High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi), a Reston-based technology services firm, has been named the recipient of the prestigious United States Senate Productivity and Quality Award (SPQA) for Virginia. HPTi has attained the Medallion of Performance Excellence, the program's highest honor. No organization has achieved this level of quality maturity since 2006.
  
  “SPQA has been a wonderful experience for HPTi,” commented Tim Keenan, HPTi's president. “We have been able to grow the company using feedback from some of the best quality experts in Virginia. It is so rewarding to see our dedication to constant improvement and growth recognized by independent evaluators.”
  
  The SPQA encourages and rewards companies throughout the Commonwealth for practicing high-quality knowledge sharing and process improvement. The awards program fosters quality services and products in every sector of the Virginia economy. Virginia SPQA Board Chairman Mark Smith offered that “although these organizations do different things, they share one important attribute, which is a commitment to performance excellence.”
  
  The SPQA Board of Directors, judges, and examiners evaluate and select award recipients. Selection criteria are based on written application submissions and on-site visits which demonstrate measurable quality and productivity results. The SPQA for Virginia was started in 1983 and is one of the longest continuously running award programs for performance excellence in the country. The criteria for the award are closely related to those of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

• 21 May 2009: HPTi is Finalist for Thirteen American Business Awards

  High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi), a technology solutions company for the U.S. government, has been named a finalist for 13 categories in the American Business Awards. This is the third consecutive year that the mid-sized company has had 100% of its nominees accepted as finalists for the national awards. The American Business Awards, nicknamed the Stevies, are the only national, all-encompassing awards honoring great performances in business. This year, HPTi is a finalist for Best Overall Company and Best Community Service Committee. HPTi employees are up for Best Human Resources Executive, Best Technical Professional, Best Finance Executive, Best Corporate Communicator, Best Support Staffer, Best IT Executive, Best Product Developer, Best Marketer, and Best Customer Service Executive.
  
  More than 2,600 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in more than 40 categories. Members of the Awards Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs will select Stevie Award winners from among the finalists in final judging that will continue through June 3. Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April through early May.
  
  “I am delighted that so many HPTi employees were named as finalists,” commented HPTi President Tim Keenan. “I am so proud when people outside of HPTi get to see the amazing contributions our people are making. The skill and talent of these nominees illustrates why a company of our size has the ability to successfully compete with multi-billion dollar corporations.”
  
  “Despite very tough economic conditions, many organizations and individuals continue to perform well,” said Michael Gallagher, founder and president of The Stevie Awards. “The results of the 2009 ABAs thus far are a testament to the resilience, creativity, and hard work of American organizations, executives, and workers.”
  
  HPTi has won Best Executive, Best Support Staffer, and Best Technical Professional in past years. The firm will find out the results of this year's voting at the awards gala on June 22nd in New York City.
  
  Details about The American Business Awards and the list of finalists in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/aba.

• 18 May 2009: HPTi Announces Its Grand Challenge—An Innovative Competition

  Many organizations claim to have cultures of innovation and creativity, but HPTi is putting programs in place and aligning resources to grow and promote novel ideas. The Grand Challenge, unveiled in the spring of 2009, has already generated several insights that are being developed into valuable applications for HPTi clients. What's more, the program has propagated a wave of innovation and collaboration within the company.
  
  Grand Challenges are rooted in technology—in other words, in the application of a methodological activity, discipline, or study (science) or in the application of electronic or digital products and systems. They must focus on the outward market (not on internal HPTi operations), and they must relate to at least one of HPTi's portfolio items: System Engineering, Computational Science, Secure Software, Enterprise Technology Planning, and Knowledge Discovery and Visualization.
  
  To participate in the Grand Challenge, employees from across the company submit ideas, which are voted on by their peers. The five highest scoring ideas are identified, and their sponsors are given 15 minutes at the company's technology offsite to describe the ideas and their value. After another round of voting, two or three challenges are identified for development, and their sponsors lead brainstorming breakout sessions at the offsite to refine the ideas. After the ideas have been developed—and after employees have been given the opportunity to contribute to this development—HPTi leadership allocates resources to act on the innovation. Based on the particular challenge, final outcomes could include whitepapers, paper and software prototypes, thought-leadership pieces, brown-bag sessions, and investment cases.
  
  Promising innovations developed this spring include software improvements for high-performance computing, insights into social networking and information sharing, and speeding up the parallelization of sequential models in computational science. Though some of these topics can seem intimidating, collaboration among HPTi knowledge leaders has made seemingly incomprehensible ideas accessible and relevant to people outside of a particular discipline. As the program incorporates the lessons it has learned during its inaugural administration, it continues to gain popularity and support among HPTi's technology innovators.

• 06 February 2009: HPTi's Mark Thompson Honored by Montana State University

  HPTi's Mark Thompson is being honored by the Montana State University as a 2009 Outstanding Alumnus for Exceptional Achievement. Each year, the university selects four alumni who have distinguished themselves in fields ranging from business, to education, to public or civil service, to the arts and sciences. Recipients of the award have exhibited unusual courage, creativity, perseverance, or originality in their chosen field; raised the quality of life for others; contributed to and promoted the advancement of higher education; or distinguished themselves as leaders in their profession or area of interest.
  
  Mark graduated from Montana State University-Billings in 1985, earning a bachelor of science degree in economics. He also holds an MBA (with honors) from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
  
  Since he joined HPTi in 2004, Mark has been instrumental in developing HPTi's business in high performance computing (HPC) systems integration, scientific computing, HPC software and utilities, and computational sciences and research and development management. In 2007, he was directly responsible for HPTi's largest contract win ever—a $214.5 million contract with the Army High Performance Computing Research Center that Mark identified and pursued by building relationships with HPC research teams across various universities, including Stanford University. In 2008, he was awarded HPTi's Summit Award, one of the highest recognitions HPTi bestows.
  
  “I want to extend my personal congratulations to Mark for this well deserved achievement,” said Scott Miller, HPTi's Chief Operating Officer. “It's been my distinct pleasure to have worked closely with Mark since he joined HPTi five years ago. I have witnessed Mark's unique talents and professionalism first hand and have come to admire him for his tenacity, creativity, and commitment to our success.”

• 05 February 2009: HPTi CEO Recognized as One of Greater Washington's Thought Leaders

  HPTi announced today that CEO Tim Keenan has been named to the Washington SmartCEO magazine 2009 Smart100 program, an exclusive group of 100 CEOs assembled by an independent selection committee. A Smart100 CEO is selected for his or her leadership, strategic vision, and character rather than on the growth of the organization.
  
  “HPTi is pleased to be selected for this high honor and recognition of our efforts to build a firm that strives to create economies of skill versus economies of scale,” Keenan said.
  
  All Smart100 CEOs will be profiled in the 100-page annual supplement in SmartCEO this spring. The Smart100 will also be listed on www.smartceo.com. The Smart100 companies represent a variety of industries.
  
  “The Smart100 represent 100 of Greater Washington's CEOs. No other publications in the Greater Washington area have produced a publication of this magnitude with such high-caliber CEOs. The Smart100 embodies 100 CEOs with incredible business minds who have successfully grown their companies to be the best in Washington,” says Group Associate Publisher of SmartCEO, Jaime Park.