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Lion Federal has successfully been recertified in ISO 9000:2015 this December, reaffirming the company's commitment to quality management and customer satisfaction. The certification was granted after a rigorous evaluation of the company's processes, systems, and policies. This recertification underscores Lion Federal's dedication to maintaining the highest standards in all aspects of their operations, ensuring that their products and services meet or exceed customer expectations. The ISO 9000:2015 certification is a globally recognized quality management standard, and Lion Federal's recertification is a testament to their ongoing pursuit of excellence.
Lion Federal is proud to announce the addition of Laura Ward to its HR team as an intern this November. Laura, currently pursuing a degree in Management and Human Resource Management at Virginia Tech, is assisting the HR team with various responsibilities, including technical recruiting and HR-related tasks. Her excellent work ethics, attention to detail, and ability to work collaboratively with others have made her an essential asset to the team. Lion Federal is delighted to have Laura on board and looks forward to her continued contributions to the company's HR initiatives.
Lion Federal and Ventera Corporation’s Joint Venture, DigiCloud Services, LLC has begun work on the General Services Administration Office of Inspector General’s Cloud Migration Services contract. Our team is migrating GSA’s on-premises legacy systems to Microsoft 365 and Azure. The scope of this work will include O365, SharePoint, Teams Voice, organizational device management, network file migration, and security assurance.
Lion Federal was awarded the Army Resilience Directorate Information Technology Support Services contract as the prime. Our team will provide ITSS for ARD systems as a prime contractor to ensure that systems are fully compliant with the Department of Defense, the US Army and the hosting facilities' policies and regulations. We will support this very important mission of the Army's Drug and Alcohol management information system, Risk Reduction Application, and Systems Branch, ARD Websites. ITSS services will include maintenance, sustainment, security, help desk, training, and data analysis of ARD systems.
Lion Federal has moved both its Washington D.C. and Tysons Corner offices to Falls Church at 5881 Leesburg Pike, Suite 304, Falls Church, VA 22041 to focus on growing DigiCloud Services—a mentor-protégé joint venture between Ventera Corporation and Lion Federal, as well as other partnerships.
Lion Federal was awarded a contract to support US Border Patrol and CBP Office of Information Technology in the implementation of a Common Operating Picture solution that will provide a single command and control interface to all surveillance technologies deployed between the border points of entry.
DigiCloud Services—a mentor-protégé joint venture between Ventera Corporation and Lion Federal has been accepted onto the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract vehicle. Under the MAS Program, GSA issues long-term governmentwide contracts that provide federal, state, and local government buyers access to commercial products, services and solutions at pre negotiated pricing. The GSA Schedule is structured to support the 12 large categories established by OMB under the category management approach of smarter buying. The Schedule is further divided into subcategories and Special Item Numbers (SINs) that are aligned to NAICS codes to simplify the process for buyers and sellers to understand the scope of GSA’s offerings and find what the products and services they are looking to buy or offer. The MAS Program supports GSA's Federal Marketplace (FMP) strategy of modernizing and simplifying the buying and selling experience for all stakeholders.
We are proud to announce that DigiCloud Services—a mentor-protégé joint venture between Ventera Corporation and Lion Federal has been accepted onto the 8(a) STARS III GWAC. The 8(a) STARS III GWAC is a small business set-aside contract that provides flexible access to customized IT solutions from a large, diverse pool of 8(a) industry partners. It expands capabilities for emerging technologies, supports both outside of the continental United States (OCONUS) and CONUS requirements, features limited protestability up to $10M, and offers expert guidance from the GSA team, including free scope review services and market research.
Lion Federal is pleased to announce that it has been renewed on the General Service Adminstration Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract vehicle. Under the MAS Program, GSA issues long-term governmentwide contracts that provide federal, state, and local government buyers access to commercial products, services and solutions at pre negotiated pricing. The GSA Schedule is structured to support the 12 large categories established by OMB under the category management approach of smarter buying. The Schedule is further divided into subcategories and Special Item Numbers (SINs) that are aligned to NAICS codes to simplify the process for buyers and sellers to understand the scope of GSA’s offerings and find what the products and services they are looking to buy or offer. The MAS Program supports GSA's Federal Marketplace (FMP) strategy of modernizing and simplifying the buying and selling experience for all stakeholders.
We are proud to announce our partnership with DataRobot! DataRobot is an extremely innovative machine learning firm providing cutting edge MLaaS such as AutoML.
This month, Lion Federal welcomes Diane Rivas as our newest Social Media Manager intern. Diane is a senior at Virginia Tech, who is majoring in Smart and Sustainable Cities. Welcome to the Lion Federal Pride Diane!
Now that the school year is coming to a close, we highly encourage college students to apply to our Winternship program! Lion Federal interns gain valuable experience by working alongside our wide range of techinical experts.
We are proud to announce our participation in Virginia Tech's Computational Modeling & Data Analytics Capstone of 2021. Our student team, "Testing the Mane Frame" will be analyzing the performance of our innovation software (TAF) to look for areas of improvement and computational resource savings.
Lion Federal will be hosting it's annual company-wide "Happy Hour" at Starr Hill Biergarten in Tysons Corner on Thursday, September 30th at 4:00pm. All are welcome to attend!
This month, Lion Federal welcomes Owen Chambers as our newest Cybersecurity intern. Owen is a Masters student studying Cybersecurity at George Mason University who has supported our innovation projects, bringing in new security testing capababilities to the Test Automation Framework. Owen has also helped our developers by penetration testing our applications and systems. Welcome to the Lion Federal Pride Owen!
We are excited to announce that our main office has been relocated to 1765 Greensboro Station Pl, McLean, VA 22102 in "The Boro". Please note that our Washington D.C. office location has not changed.
This month, Lion Federal welcomes Benny Hartnett as the newest member of the innovation development team. Benny is a full-stack developer who is building innovative software products and internal systems. Welcome to the Lion Federal Pride Benny!
Find us at the 9th Annual NoVA B2G Matchmaking Conference & Small Business EXPO!
Over the last year, the Lion Federal Pride has delivered outstanding services to our customers and partners during what has been a very trying time around the world. As the economy and nation begins to recover, we are strategically positioning Lion Federal to grow into new areas of the Federal Government while simultaneously expanding our teams with our existing customers. As part of our growth strategy, Lion Federal opened a new office in downtown Washington, DC at 1616 H Street NW to create a stronger presence and closer engagements in our Nation’s capital.
This month, Lion Federal welcomes Zeena Alani as the newest member to the executive team. Zeena is a Human Resources specialist and is supporting human resources and recruitment, train and retain the best talent so we continue to deliver exceptional service to the government. Welcome to the Lion Federal Pride Zeena!
This month, six Lion Federal employees received the first ever awards for Outstanding Customer Service. Each of our recipients were recognized by our customers for their leadership, performance and dedication throughout 2020 during what has been an extremely trying time. Congratulations to Scott Avery, Nasif Gilini, Sylvia Crailes, Chris Danielson, Ron Stone and Henry Torres!
As we look back on 2020, our message for all of us is to be hopeful for the future, to remain focused on caring for our families, our friends and colleagues, and to continue our commitment to our customers and partners as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the difficult year, the Lion Federal Pride has worked tirelessly to deliver outstanding service during extraordinary times, which will serve us well moving forward into the future.
The Lion Federal Back-Office Team volunteered with FACETS to distribute food to the homeless in Fairfax County. The team used a FACETS van loaded with pizza, fruit and water to deliver more than 120 meals to those in need. The team was honored to be part of such a great cause. For more information, please visit the FACETS website at facetscares.org.
Lion Federal wins a second multi-million dollar award within two consecutive months through a vendor partnership, furthering this relationship. This contract is a great start for the company to grow in 2020.
Lion Federal is excited to announce the award of a competitive Task Order on an IDIQ with a Fortune 500 business partner. This multi-million-dollar contract spans across multiple years and helps to solidify the recent partnership with this distinguished integrator.
The Lion Federal HR team recruited at the Restart hiring and networking event. This job fair was the largest hiring event for cleared professionals in the DMV. The team met with many great potential hires and made some good future contacts.
Lion Federal has partnered with two large prime vendors and signed teaming agreements with both to go after multi-million dollar over multiple year awards. The procurement process is expected to be a short turn-around.
Our HR team – Sophie and Christine – represented Lion Federal at a career fair hosted by TechExpo. They enjoyed connecting with cleared professionals from all around the DMV!
We are saying goodbye to our first ever class of College Summer Interns! Thank you to Ben and Isaac from MIT for all their hard work. Additionally, thank you to Stephanie and Zia for being our first high school interns.
Lion Federal are is excited to be partnering with another small business – a Virginia-based firm, to provide complimentary skillsets. We are looking forward to the opportunities this partnership will bring across different government agencies.
Bring out the welcome wagon – we’ve moved! Lion Federal has officially set up shop in our new location. Find us as 8300 Boone Blvd., Suite 500, Vienna, VA 22182.
Employees and customers enjoyed an exciting team-building outing at Nationals Park to support our local baseball team! Everyone had a great time eating hotdogs and peanuts while watching the Nats beat the Cubs 5 to 2.
Lion Federal sponsored a happy hour to raise money and awareness for FACETS at Matchbox in Merrifield Virginia. The event was a success and raised about $2000 to donate to a local organization.
Lion Federal obtains Small Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (SDBE) certification in the state of Virginia. Lion Federal now also has access to many other state contracts set-aside for small disadvantaged businesses.
An existing Lion Federal customer awarded a new project to deliver an additional resource team in the IC. This award helps to solidify the partnership with this large integrator.
Lion Federal signed a teaming agreement with an Alaskan Native 8(a) for a task order on a multi-billion-dollar IDIQ.
Lion Federal held it's annual holiday party on December 8th at American Prime Steak House in McLean, VA. This event is held for all employees and this year we had a special "Ugly Sweater" contest. Congratulations to William Turner and Larry Phelps for wearing the worst sweaters!
Lion Federal supported the 30th Anniversary Taste of Fall charity event for FACETS, a charity organization that helps parents, their children and individual who suffer the effects of poverty in Fairfax County, Virginia. All kinds of donated items, from gift baskets to complete vacations for the family, were auctioned to raise funds for this amazing cause. This event is one of two big events to help raise funds to support this organization that makes a difference in over 1000 lives in Fairfax County.
Lion Federal recently sent its Energy Sector team to Anaheim, CA to join other industry professionals and members of society of exploration geophysicists in Oil and Gas Industry Technology Innovation.
Lion Federal has agreed to a Strategic Agreement with a large integrator to support their over $1 Billion contract over 9 years. This provides Lion Federal an easy vehicle to provide talented teams of professionals with agreed labor categories and rates.
Lion Federal attended the Fall MIT Career Fair to recruit top engineering talent from MIT and other Boston area universities to help solve complex technology challenges within the US Intelligence Community. A few select underclassmen will also be awarded summer internships for two specific projects: Social Media Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for Psychometrics.
Lion Federal continues to secure contracts with strategic teaming partners to delivery mission oriented IT services to the Department of Homeland Security.
Lion Federal sponsored FACETS at the 30th Anniversary Opening Doors Benefits Breakfast event. With Lion Federal's support, the event grossed the largest donations in the past three years. FACETS is a charity organization that helps parents, their children and individual who suffer the effects of poverty in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Lion Federal was awarded a contract to provide a Project Management excellence to the Intelligence Community.
