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Syzygy on Winning Streak for Gaining Defense Contracts

Numerous local information technology and engineering services companies are benefiting from the increase in government spending earmarked for improvements to IT systems and services.

Syzygy Technologies, a San Diego-based firm that provides engineering services primarily within the Department of Defense marketplace, has recently expanded to meet the needs of existing and future contracts.

Syzygy CEO Keith Sutton said he now provides systems engineering, hardware and software integration, independent verification and validation services, and testing services to Navy, Marine Corps and joint services customers.

The company was formed in 1995 by Sutton, along with co-founders Al Crespo, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer; Merv Cutler, vice president and chief business development officer; and Joe Discar, vice president and chief information and technology officer.

Syzygy has since grown to more than $8.6 million in sales for 2007 and 80 employees in four offices.

It has grown at an annualized rate of over 15 percent in the past 10 years, according to Sutton, who anticipates 2008 sales to reach $13.5 million.

Now with four offices nationwide, Syzygy is seeking business contracts from the military and government in Washington, D.C.; Norfolk, Va.; and Hawaii.

“It has been a long-term investment for us to grow,” said Sutton. “We have grown geographically to other offices as well as our customer base here.”


East Coast Offices

Syzygy’s Washington office, which opened in April 2007, provides support to the area and Northern Virginia. Its Virginia Beach office serves customers from Virginia to the Gulf Coast.

It most recently expanded to Hawaii six months ago to better provide command center support, test and evaluation services, and project consulting services to various military commands in the Pacific Rim, including the Pacific Command; naval facilities at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; the Marine Corps’ Camp H.M. Smith in Hawaii; Camp Smith, and the Pacific fleet.

Sutton said he has been able to grow so rapidly due to networking and collaboration with other defense contractors. He said the company works with 34 subcontractors.

“In this industry you have to dance with other people,” said Sutton. “You help them with contracts and they help you.”

Syzygy has worked with Booz Allen Hamilton, L-3 Communications Holdings, SAIC, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.

Recently, Syzygy Technologies was awarded a contract for an undisclosed sum to provide joint programs software maintenance and product support for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, or Spawar, in San Diego. Product support will include systems administration, network, security, communication, database and engineering changes.

Sutton said that this contract allows Syzygy to continue to provide networking and communications support to both the Navy and Spawar.

This is just one of numerous defense-related contracts Syzygy has won in the past year. As part of a multiple contract competition, Syzygy was awarded a $3 million contract in June to provide engineering support, systems integration, test and evaluation, and program management support to the Defense Information Systems Agency for the Net-Enabled Command Capability program. This contract has award options of up to $7 million in the next two years.

In April, it won another contract to perform testing and customer support for the Collaborative Force Analysis, Sustainment and Transportation System, a collaborative network of software tools that allows for campaign planning, forecast planning, forecast prediction, information management and rapid execution.


R & D; For Defense

Kevin Carroll, executive director of the San Diego Council of the American Electronics Association, noted that a huge amount of research and development money for defense-related technologies funnels into San Diego.

“The reality, especially in San Diego, is that there are a lot of small technology companies that the defense department relies on,” said Carroll.

He said that the local market is a leader in research and development jobs in California and that is partially due to defense dollars funneling in as a result of government contracts.

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