Victory Solutions is proud to announce the establishment of VictoryVets, a new Employee Resource Group with a focus on veterans which make up over 18% of the Victory Solutions workforce. VictoryVets is open to all employees and will focus on career development, mentoring, recruitment and community support efforts. VictoryVets is led by John Ryan, our Victory Solutions Chief Operating Officer (COO) and former Army soldier.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, virtually presented its 2021 Industry & Advocate Awards. Victory Solutions is proud to have received the FY2021 Small Business Prime Contractor Excellence Award!
Nominated by the MSFC Engineering Directorate for our work providing configuration/data management (CDM) and information management (IM) services on the Marshall Integrated Program Support Services (MIPSS) contract, we are thankful to our dedicated team of CDM and IM professionals who work at high levels in service of our customers.
Huntsville, AL (September 2, 2021) – Hurricane Ida has devastated the communities in the southern Louisiana area. With several of our employees having close ties to the region, Victory Solutions purchased food, paper products, cleaning supplies, flashlights, tarps, repair materials and other essential items to support victims of the hurricane and aid in the relief efforts. Employees packed emergency aid boxes of food and essential items to distribute to impacted families in the area.
Huntsville, AL (August 7, 2021) – The Small Victories Committee organized a volunteer opportunity for Victory Solutions employees to work a Saturday at the CASA Garden harvesting fruits and vegetables, weeding raised beds and providing general clean up. The CASA Garden provides nutritious, fresh, organic produce for the elderly and homebound in our community. This is the second time this year Small Victories has organized a volunteer group to work at the CASA Garden. Our thanks to Carol Sivley for coordinating the effort!
Information about the services CASA provides including the CASA Garden can be found at https://casamadisoncty.org/
Huntsville, AL (June 19, 2021) –Victory Solutions supported the annual March of Dimes March for Babies raising over $2000 in support of this collective effort to transform the health of moms and babies. Although the March of Dimes conducted their event virtually, Victory Solutions employees met at Big Spring Park for a socially distanced one mile walk around the park. This is the third year employees have participated in the event and met our fundraising goal. Our thanks to Emily Walters for coordinating Victory Solutions participation in this event!
Information about the March of Dimes mission and their efforts can be found at https://www.marchofdimes.org/
Victory Solutions is proud to be considered a top contender for the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce's Best Places to Work 2021 Competition! The Victory Solutions Team is truly amazing!
https://hsvchamber.org/2021-best-places-to-work-contender-list/
Huntsville, AL — The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded the Consolidated Program Support Services (CPSS) Configuration and Data Management (CDM) contract to Victory Solutions Inc. of Huntsville, Alabama, to provide CDM services at 10 NASA Centers including Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center.
As a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned (SDVO) and Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), Victory Solutions is a multiple award-winning company specializing in building relationships with defense and commercial customers to develop, analyze, and integrate advanced aerospace systems. With this contract's award, the potential mission services value is $96.5 million and a maximum potential IDIQ value of $169 million over eight years.
"Victory Solutions is pleased to receive this latest contract as we work to provide solutions to the complex, and ever-changing, problems across the aerospace, defense, and technical engineering industries. This award is not only a reflection of the capabilities of our advanced teams, but also a reflection of our commitment to developing the skills of our employees, building effective teams, and forging partnerships with our customers to identify and solve their problems." - Kris McGuire, Founder/CEO, Victory Solutions.
Victory Solutions will be responsible for providing configuration and data management support to include planning, coordination, technical management, execution, and surveillance for programs, projects, and organizations with directorates and offices that exercise responsibility for their hardware and software products.
For more information, please contact David Alan Smith at davidalan.smith@v-s-inc.com.
From left, Victory Solutions Vice President David Alan Smith, CEO Kris McGuire, and IDEA Executive Director Chris Crumbly worked to establish the Systems Engineering Technology Program utilizing an award from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Victory Solutions has partnered with Auburn University, Calhoun Community College, and the newly created Institute for Digital Engineering Advancement (IDEA) to utilize a $500,000 award from the Department of Defense to develop a digital engineering curriculum to educate the next generation of systems engineering technicians. The award represents year one of a five-year grant totaling $9.9 million.
Development and implementation of the Systems Engineering Technician Program, SET, has been in work for several years. In 2016 Victory Solutions Chief Executive Officer, Kristine McGuire, was appointed by Congressman Aderholt (AL 4th District) to the Board of the Tennessee Valley Corridor (TVC) with the mandate to identify educational opportunities in support of TVC regional goals. Through Victory’s Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) support to the Missile Defense Agency and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, our team identified a critical US industrial base skill gap: a readily available workforce of digital modelers trained to support systems engineers. This led to the concept of a 2-year degree in Systems Engineering Technology (SET) which will appeal to graduating high school students and career transitioning professionals including returning veterans (McGuire is a disabled veteran herself).
The nonprofit IDEA will be the central hub for the SET initiative. Overall implementation will be led by Auburn Engineering associate professor Greg Harris and assistant professor Greg Purdy, both of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; James Payne, dean for Business and Computer Information Systems at Calhoun Community College; David Alan Smith, senior vice president of Victory Solutions; and Chris Crumbly, executive director of IDEA.
“Our SET curriculum will prepare a workforce of systems engineers equipped with the digital engineering skills necessary to enable future U.S. technology development,” Harris said. “Systems are much more complex today and there is a great demand for systems engineers from organizations such as the Department of Defense, NASA and the Department of Energy. The SET program will address this demand and establish a workforce pipeline to enable trained systems engineers to make an impact.”
The SET curriculum will feature a strong focus on exposure to various industries with a need for systems engineers and will emphasize internship opportunities for program participants to gain hands-on experience. “It’s imperative, on both economic and national security grounds, that we identify and achieve efficiency gains in our engineering and product development processes,” Payne said. “People looking to start a technical career in the Huntsville area will find this program to be a promising addition to the opportunities Calhoun already offers. We look forward to building this program from the ground up and establishing it as a nationwide standard.”
Students in the program will have direct access to prominent companies in the aerospace and manufacturing industry in the form of guest lecturers and other involvement coordinated by Victory Solutions. We are working to establish SET internships to provide students with real-world experience while offering our government and industry partners insight to SET capabilities as well as the opportunity to fine tune the SET curriculum over time”, Smith said.
Ultimately, the vision of the researchers and industry partners involved in bringing the SET program to fruition is to provide a national collaborative center in the form of the nonprofit IDEA, where best practices and solutions in digital engineering and manufacturing will be identified, shared and recommended. “IDEA will introduce the SET concept to community college systems across the nation and remain as a subject matter expert to support education and connect organizations with experts, graduates and interns,” Crumbly said.
Victory Solutions is excited to be on the Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, team in the development of the NASA Human Landing System (HLS). We are honored to be part of such an impressive team of experienced small and mid-sized companies with an exceptional range of experience in NASA, DoD and Commercial space programs. We look forward to participating in this team’s historic unique, technologically advanced, and robust HLS concept. Our team’s experience and knowledge of aerospace systems development allows this team to provide our nation with the next American landing on the surface of the Moon in 2024 and continue our legacy of Space Exploration leadership and discovery.
For additional resources such as an imagery, animation, the fact sheet and the infographic, please click the links below.
https://www.dynetics.com/newsroom/
https://www.dynetics.com/space-solutions/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFBeVQ3STZ0
On Friday, February 28, 2020, Ms. Kris McGuire, CEO of Victory Solutions was presented with the Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year award from The Catalyst Center for Business and Entrepreneurship. The Catalyst Center was founded in 2003 and serves entrepreneurs and small business owners in every stage of business to assist in successfully navigating their business journeys. The Annual Entrepreneur of the Year Awards recognizes the accomplishments of entrepreneurs throughout North Alabama and celebrates all areas of entrepreneurship - from services and technology to defense, retail, and everything in-between.
The Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year award acknowledges an outstanding military-veteran entrepreneur in the North Alabama Region and it is an honor for Kris McGuire to have been nominated and presented with the award in recognition of her vison, effort and leadership in building Victory Solutions into a small business with over 100 employees at 10 locations within the US and overseas. More information regarding the Catalyst Center and their mission is available at https://catalystcenter.org/
