Awards & Achievements
We have been recognized as an industry leader for our innovation and ingenuity both internally and externally.
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Selected as a 2012 Virginia Business Best Place to Work
Recipients are selected based on an in depth employer questionnaire and employee-satisfaction survey.
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The Fantastic 50 – Placed 4 Years
The Fantastic 50, presented by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce, is Virginia's most prestigious awards program that recognizes the 50 fastest-growing companies in Virginia. Companies are judged on four-year total growth rates.
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Inc 5000 by Inc. Magazine – Placed Four Years Running
The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs. In a stagnant economic environment, median growth rate of 2011 Inc. 500|5000 companies remains an impressive 94 percent. The companies on this year’s list report having created 350,000 jobs in the past three years, and aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $366 billion, up 14 percent from last year.
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Inside Business Best Places to Work – Selected Six Times
This award focuses on corporate culture and employee satisfaction. To be selected for the honor, companies submit information about their culture, annual turnover, employee satisfaction, fair and equitable treatment, compensation, benefits and employee training opportunities.
To be considered, each company has to have a sufficient number of employees respond to an online survey, and the judges consider those results and comments in making their final selections.
Inside Business Top 25 Best Places to Work – Selected 4 times
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Inside Business Roaring 20s
The Roaring 20 award honors Hampton Road’s most dynamic businesses based on revenue and employee growth. The award recognizes the region’s fastest growing companies that are making significant contributions to our local economy.
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Hampton Roads Technology Council - High-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year in Hampton Roads
Jeff Wassmer was selected for this award in 2008 which honors an individual who has demonstrated outstanding entrepreneurial success in the development of a technology-based, commercial enterprise.
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Achievements
Through communication, recognition, and festivities, employee-owners share in the achievements we have had and collectively work to attain the company’s strategic goals of what will come.
March 27, 1999 – Spectrum was incorporated at the Holiday Inn on Mercury Boulevard, Hampton, VA. First office location was Jeff Wassmer’s home on Wiley Way in Warner Robins, GA
November 1999 – Awarded first contract supporting the Air Force at Langley AFB, VA
November 2000 – First Corporate Office established at 7 W Queens Way, Hampton, VA
March 2002 – Key sub-contract win for Information Security System Support moved Spectrum’s work into additional states
August 2004 – Re-established presence in Warner Robins, GA
June 2005 – Washington, DC presence established
November 2006 – Company re-branding. All employees travelled to Hampton, VA for the company’s first Vision Day. Jeff Wassmer and Anthoney Stoney unleashed new logo and marketing materials first to employees as well as introduced the Employee Deferred Stock Plan
2006 also marked the establishment of Envision Labs and the Acquisition & Logistics Division
August 2007 – Announced as the Prime for the ACC Contract Advisory and Assistance Services (CAAS III) IDIQ Contract
October 2007 – Obtained ISO 9001 certification
November 2007 – Spectrum hired its 100th employee & opened the Warner Robins, GA office
December 2007 – Jeff Wassmer, Anthoney Stoney & John Heck signed the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
January 2008 – Announced as the 560th ACSG Contract for Advisory and Assistance Service winner
July 2008 – Awarded 9th Reconnaissance Wing Support Contract supporting the U-2 and Global Hawk flight and ground operations at Beale AFB, CA
October 2008 – Spectrum hired its 200th employee
January 2009 – Spectrum Ethics Envisioned program instituted
January 2009 – Spectrum Foundation established through the Peninsula Community Foundation
March 27, 2009 – Celebrated the Company’s 10 Year Anniversary at the Virginia Air & Space Center
August 2009 – Relocated headquarters office to One Compass Way in Newport News, VA
September 2009 – Awarded the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Air Force Global Cyberspace Integration Center (GCIC) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract for Enterprise Design & Development Engineering (EDDE)
May 2009 – Formalized Strategic Planning Process
March 2010 – Awarded the B2-FAB contract at Whitman AFB and the 84 RADES contract at Hill AFB, adding two new states to the Company’s locations
March 2010 – Established the Washington, DC office
May 2010 – First Spectrum Foundation Golf Tournament, Kiln Creek Golf Course in Newport News, VA
June 2010 – Hired Ralph Wade, Chief Strategy Officer to further refine and tailor the Company’s planning goals
February 2011 – Hired Washington, DC based AVP and Director of Envision Labs to further Engineering and Technology Management
September 2011 – Establishment of employee computer-based training and development