Earlier this year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the availability of its , , an advanced system designed to support a new generation of missions and research projects. Athena will provide the computational power necessary to simulate rocket launches, design next-generation aircraft and spacecraft, train large-scale artificial intelligence foundation models and analyze massive datasets to uncover new scientific insights. This high-performance computing (HPC) system – housed at NASA’s Ames Research Center – will help NASA scientists, engineers and researchers overcome complex challenges in space, aeronautics and science while lowering operational costs and improving energy efficiency.

Our Team Behind this Mission

The Ģ����Ƶ Federal team, comprised of HPC-focused architects, system administrators and application subject matter experts, was responsible for leading the development and implementation of a new site architecture as well as managing the transition and integration into NASA’s operational environment. Extensive planning, coordination and technical innovation were required to successfully guide the system through design, integration testing and rollout phases. This initiative relied heavily on collaboration across multiple organizations, such as infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, operations and vendor partners – with the team focused on balancing system stability, user adoption and performance optimization while minimizing disruption to ongoing scientific workloads. Ģ����Ƶ Federal is currently providing continuous 24/7/365 operational support for Athena HPC.

“The NASA Ames Research Center conducts critical research and development for the technologies that make NASA missions possible. We are proud to have worked hand-in-hand with our customer to help bring their vision for this transformational platform to life,” said Eric Velte, Ģ����Ƶ Federal Chief Technology Officer.

Interesting facts about NASA’s newest supercomputer include:

• Athena surpasses the capabilities of its predecessors, Aitken, Electra and Pleiades, in both power and efficiency, delivering over 20 petaflops of peak performance – a measurement of the number of calculations it can make per second – all while reducing the agency’s supercomputing utility costs.
• The system includes 1,024 nodes across four racks, delivering 262,144 CPU cores. For perspective, this four-rack cluster has as many cores as 16,000 to 22,000 modern laptops combined.
• The list ranks high-performance computing systems used for advanced scientific and engineering applications worldwide; Athena currently holds the 116th spot.
• Athena was named after the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare and was selected through a contest held last year among NASA’s High-End Computing Capability workforce – which was chosen because she is the half-sister of Artemis (the agency’s lunar exploration program).

Learn more about the Athena HPC supercomputer in this .

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Teachers do much more than deliver lesson plans. They inspire curiosity, build confidence, create meaningful learning experiences and shape the future leaders of our communities. During Teacher Appreciation Week (May 4-8), Ģ����Ƶ Federal proudly continues its partnership with , a non-profit organization that has supported public school teachers from every corner of America by helping them get resources and tools to make their classrooms better places for students to learn.

At Ģ����Ƶ Federal, the spirit of giving back is deeply woven into our culture. Since 2021, employees have participated in the company’s DonorsChoose initiative that provides an opportunity to directly support classroom projects that resonate the most with them. School teachers often spend their own money to provide basic supplies, innovative learning tools and enriching experiences for their students. By stepping in to help bridge this gap, we aim to eliminate some of that burden and let educators focus on what they do best: teaching.

Our Impact By the Numbers

For the fifth consecutive year, our partnership with DonorsChoose resulted in:

• $25,000 donated to classroom projects
• 177 projects funded
• 168 teachers supported
• 161 schools served
• 36 states represented

These numbers represent hundreds of students across the U.S. who now have access to the tools and resources they need to succeed and thrive in their educational journeys. This program also makes a positive impact on classroom projects in remote villages on the North Slope of Alaska where Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s shareholders reside, such as Nuiqsut, Utqiaġ������, Wainwright and Anaktuvuk Pass.

The following employee feedback highlights why this initiative matters so much.

“I really love that Ģ����Ƶ Federal partners with DonorsChoose on this important program. It’s a nice way to support the local communities where we live.”
– Stephanie Webb, Director, Software Center of Excellence, Office of the Chief Technology Officer

“The opportunity to contribute to classroom needs was truly appreciated by the teachers we donated to.”
– Krista Kirk, Program Manager, Defense & Intelligence Operating Group

Learn more about Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s corporate responsibility i�Ծ��پ����پ������.

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“Sea-based weapons systems like the Aegis Combat System, the Long-Range Discrimination Radar and homeland defense radars in the range play a critical role in integrated missile tracking, interception and destruction,” Eric Velte, Chief Technology Officer at Ģ����Ƶ Federal, told SIGNAL Media. “Assets like the Aegis Ashore, a land-based version of this system, have long served as the backbone of broad ballistic missile defense against nation-state-based threats.”

The U.S. Navy’s advanced systems place it as a critical component of America’s Golden Dome missile defense initiative.

As work on the Golden Dome for America project intensifies, focus remains largely on the U.S. Space Force and space-based systems, leaving questions on the U.S. Navy’s role in the initiative. With current capabilities in place, the Navy is poised to be a potential anchor and force multiplier for the nationwide missile defense system.

The Golden Dome, a project first introduced as The Iron Dome for America in January 2025, is a strategic initiative to combat threats targeting the United States. In May 2025, the missile defense initiative was renamed to its current title. “I’m pleased to announce that we have officially selected an architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the land, sea and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors,” the president stated during a press conference from the Oval Office.

In March, Golden Dome Director Gen. Michael Guetlein announced an additional $10 billion spending necessary for space capability procurement, totaling about $185 billion for the full missile defense system. According to a report by Defense Scoop, the funds would be used for tools, including an airborne moving target indication, the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor, and the Space Data Network.

“When you look at the posture … some of the locations where the Navy is operating, 24/7, the response time to be able to be in a position to create an effect, in this case knocking down ballistic missiles or cruise missiles or drones, is impressive,” said J.D. Gainey, former commander of the USS Hopper (DDG 70), an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided-missile destroyer.

Gainey spoke during a 2025 Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance webinar discussion about the Navy and the Golden Dome.

“Nobody else in the world can do that, so when it comes to what they are supposed to do, the good thing is they have the capability; they have the tech; they have the experience to do it,” he stated.

The Aegis Weapon System, for example, is the Navy’s automated command-and-control (C2) system created to detect and engage threats. According to the Navy website, the first Aegis ship, titled USS Ticonderoga (CG47), was commissioned in 1983 and deployed just six months after.

The is “capable of simultaneous operations against multi-mission threats: anti-air, anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare,” the website states, closely resembling the Golden Dome mission.

“Sea-based weapons systems like the Aegis Combat System, the Long-Range Discrimination Radar and homeland defense radars in the range play a critical role in integrated missile tracking, interception and destruction,” Eric Velte, chief technology officer at Ģ����Ƶ Federal, told SIGNAL Media. “Assets like the Aegis Ashore, a land-based version of this system, have long served as the backbone of broad ballistic missile defense against nation-state-based threats.”

Modern day conflicts have showcased the Navy’s operational capability in an active environment, with reports stating that an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney fired a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile amid Iran operations. The ship is one of the few in the Destroyer Modernization 2.0 program, which aims to upgrade the destroyers’ electronic warfare, radar and combat systems.

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Ģ����Ƶ Federal subsidiary Ģ����Ƶ Federal Data Network Technologies LLC, has been selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to execute the Financial Management Data System (FMDS) Technical Support Services contract. This work builds upon the longstanding partnership between Ģ����Ƶ Federal and NOAA.

Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s Advanced Analytics Platform, A2P, is the framework for NOAA’s FMDS program. FMDS is an operational system that enables NOAA financial analysts to perform financial management including budget planning, variance analysis & plan adjustments. One key feature of the FMDS tool is that it uses AI/ML to examine data from prior spending cycles to predict future spending needs. The custom application of this solution for NOAA demonstrates an effective application where AI and data analytics are helping a government agency achieve its goals with smarter financial management methods.

‘Single Pane of Glass’ View and AI-Enabled Forecasting

• FMDS leverages a commercially developed custom AI module that can make sense of the agency’s complex financial data patterns and pre-process it in ways that help personnel identify spending behaviors for individual contracts to predict how much of their budget could potentially be left unused on each contract.
• The program gives financial leaders greater visibility into the agency’s finances by breaking down silos to bring data from disparate systems into a “single pane of glass”, to give them the data they need at their fingertips.
• The system’s analytics provide an integrated view of timely data that enables better decision-making through improved visibility into past financial performance against plan as well as AI-enabled forecasts into future spending behavior.

Creating Efficiencies Through Cost Savings

In the first couple of years of deployment, the system has identified tens of millions of dollars that had not yet been allocated due to complex planning practices. This tool has been so impactful that NOAA rolled it out to its entire budget community after the initial deployment with its National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) team. FMDS is based on commercial software that can be tailored to the unique needs of different agencies.

“This contract award underscores NOAA’s trust in our team to deliver innovative, reliable solutions like AI analytics for financial management,” said Clay Morad, vice president at Ģ����Ƶ Federal.

“FMDS presents an example of how an agency can evolve from an operating model focused on manually pulling data from various sources to one that gives leadership real-time visibility and vision into that data, and by extension, into the agency’s contracts and acquisitions,” said Theresa Cauble, Ģ����Ƶ Federal senior director of solutions architecture.

This contract is the first task order that Ģ����Ƶ Federal has won on the NOAA Mission IT Services (NMITS) acquisition vehicle. Ģ����Ƶ Federal will also provide front-line technical services to users while continuing to successfully implement this system across the agency. As a trusted partner, we look forward to advancing NOAA’s critical mission to better understand Earth’s climate and weather systems.

For more information, contact PR@asrcfederal.com.

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At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, there is a fleet of in work, and Rebekah �մDZ����ٴDZ�������’s hands have helped build each one. Tolatovicz works to build, integrate, and test the spacecraft used during the Artemis II test flight, as well as those designed to carry humanity to the Moon on future Artemis missions.

Tolatovicz is a mechanical technician lead for the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, or Ģ����Ƶ Federal, supporting the Orion spacecraft’s main contractor Lockheed Martin. A typical day for Tolatovicz takes place inside NASA Kennedy’s Operations and Checkout Building, with Orion assembly and testing. Her work ranges from helping coordinate and lead technicians, to jumping into hands-on installations on components like hatches and engines, to collaborating with the engineering team.

“What I really like about the area that I’m in is we do so much,” said Tolatovicz. “From starting with the bare structure and installing giant parts and titanium pieces, to final integration where you’re installing the tiniest little components. I think that’s the coolest part. We don’t do just one technical thing — it’s all the technical things.”

Tolatovicz currently works on the Orion crew modules that could sustain the astronauts on future Artemis missions, and she played a large role in work on the Artemis II spacecraft that carried four astronauts on a mission around the Moon, splashing down April 10. This included testing, integration, and final installation and closeout before the spacecraft was prepared for fueling and stacking on the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket.

As Artemis II was the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis program, Tolatovicz recognized the impact of her work.

“It’s really vital to stress the importance of what we do and know nothing is minuscule. Everything matters. It’s really important to pass that down on to the new hires and make sure that everybody has that perspective.”

Tolatovicz, who began as an intern with Lockheed Martin through Eastern Florida State College’s aerospace technician program, knows what it’s like to be a newcomer. She had been mentored by technicians who worked through the space shuttle era, which largely shaped her experience and outlook.

“At first I didn’t think I was going to make it,” said Tolatovicz. “But if you come in with a good attitude and want to learn — there’s so much you can learn from these guys, they have decades of knowledge to share. Once I got down on the floor and was working with them hands-on, I knew I could figure it out.”

Tolatovicz has been working on the Orion program for nine years. Since then, the Maine native has witnessed her work come to fruition on Orion’s uncrewed Artemis I test flight as well as the Artemis II mission around the Moon.

“It’s really amazing for me to be a part of NASA’s history and the next step,” said Tolatovicz. “I just really love my job, the team, and working through challenges. You don’t think about it when you’re putting things on, but then you get to tell somebody else that you installed the thrusters for the spacecraft, and you realize — man, that’s pretty cool.”

To learn about other Ģ����Ƶ Federal employees supporting the Artemis missions, read about Our Team Behind the Artemis II Mission.

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Clay Morad will tell you his career started because his mom grabbed him by the ear. That’s not a metaphor — she told him to go work for��The Corporation,��meaning Arctic Slope Regional Corp., the Alaska Native company his family has been tied to for generations. He listened, landed an internship in 1999 and never really left.

Twenty-seven years later, he’s the vice president of NASA and NOAA operations at Ģ����Ƶ Federal, overseeing 300 people across 16 programs and a portfolio that spans satellite operations, financial management and cloud services. His grandmother grew up in a sod hut in Point Hope, Alaska. The profits from the work he does flow back to 14,000 Ģ����Ƶ shareholders, his family among them.

In this Q&A, he discusses how mentorship shaped his path, why turning sensor data into usable intelligence is the defining challenge for his customers right now and what it means to build a career inside a company where your success and your community’s success are the same thing.

Can you provide a brief overview of your professional background and career progression?

I was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska and am an Iñupiaq shareholder of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (Ģ����Ƶ), the parent company of Ģ����Ƶ Federal. My journey with Ģ����Ƶ began in 1999 when I was fortunate to secure an internship, a pivotal opportunity that marked the start of a 27-year career within the Ģ����Ƶ family of companies.

Coming up through the IT stack, I transitioned to program management in 2007 with the Drug Enforcement Administration and reached the Vice President role in 2013 overseeing operations and growth of a new entity focused on software development in Defense.

Since that time, I’ve oscillated between business development, capture, and operations roles, and currently oversee a portfolio of NOAA and NASA programs with a focus on Satellite Operations and Financial Management.

Why was this the path you chose, and how influential was it to your career?

My initial path was laid by my mom, who effectively took me by the ear and told me to go work for The Corporation (Ģ����Ƶ). I’m so glad she did. From there, I was able to experience working in the arctic at an oil camp, office work in Anchorage, and Washington, D.C. after graduating college with a BS in Computer Science and deciding to stay on the East Coast.

That early decision to work for Ģ����Ƶ laid the groundwork for a long career, gaining experience and technical prowess in IT, then honing my skills in what has become a passion for growth and operations excellence.

I was also very lucky to have many mentors along the way, most influential being an early CEO at Ģ����Ƶ Federal who helped me chart a course at 24 years old to work my way up the org chart and be in a position to lead the organization.

Do you have a personal connection to the current mission you support?��

As an Ģ����Ƶ shareholder, I’m very fortunate to have a symbiotic relationship with Ģ����Ƶ Federal; the better I do for my company, the better the company does for me and my people. When I drive profits and establish relationships with my customers for mission success, those profits and relationships directly benefit my immediate family, extended family, and all 14,000 shareholders of Ģ����Ƶ. It’s hard to imagine a better motivation to succeed.

Our long-term vision, and the fact that I can never sell or trade my shares, has led me to double down on my values and integrity, keeping the long-term view in mind instead of cutting corners for short-term gains.

I’ve been to our villages. My grandmother grew up in a sod-hut in Point Hope, Alaska. I love the fact that the work we do at Ģ����Ƶ goes towards preserving my culture and my way of life, while also providing opportunities for professional and monetary advancement depending on what we as individuals want.

What are your current top priorities and responsibilities? How do these relate to your company’s overall mission/growth strategy?

As the Vice President of NASA/NOAA Operations, I oversee a staff of over 300 people across 16 programs from Florida, California, Texas, Alaska, Maryland, and other locations across the United States. We support satellite and ground system operations for NOAA, engineering services for NASA, as well as financial management and cloud operations. I love meeting with my customers and helping my program management team solve the variety of complex challenges, be they technical, interpersonal, or mission based.

The services we provide are directly in line with the company’s strategy and mission. We provide Space domain services to our customers, while delivering meaningful and sustainable profits to our shareholders; it’s truly the best of both worlds.

Where do you and your team see growth opportunities in your current field or portfolio you support, or what do you anticipate to be your customers’ top pain points?

With the exponential growth of sensor data across the market from both the private and public sector, our customers are faced with mountains of data and challenged with making it useful. Moving from data to information to wisdom is a challenge across the market, and there’s a need to collect, hold, and distribute that wisdom to users, be they farmers, warfighters, or meteorologists.

I’m excited about our nation’s investment particularly in weather radar, satellite data, and integration of that information into the cloud to meet the needs of the people of the world.

How are you and your team planning to address/prepare for these opportunities?

We’re leveraging both our direct and adjacent experience to bring robust solutions to our customers. One of the great things about working for Ģ����Ƶ Federal is that we’ve got 9,000 employees supporting the gamut of federal agencies. This allows us to pull the best and brightest into adjacent areas.

I’m always amazed at how a solution we may have developed for Earth Sensing Satellites might be applicable to supporting the warfighter, or how a financial tool developed to support NOAA can apply directly to a defense system to provide meaningful insights into spend planning.

How important is mentorship & networking in GovCon? Were they influential to your career?

I’m fortunate to have had a wide array of mentors throughout my career. Having only worked for Ģ����Ƶ Federal, I recognize the limitations that inherently come with a monolithic perspective. Having a wide network of mentors and colleagues with which to share ideas and gain perspective has been instrumental to my success in this industry.

I am a voracious reader, from business books to articles, science fiction to historical biographies. Casting a wide net allows me to see connections and gain insights that I would have otherwise missed. The same is true for my personal network and connections with mentors and mentees alike.

What is something most people don’t know about you personally?

In my spare time I love volunteering with youth sports organizations. I have a 14-year-old son who loves hockey, lacrosse, and running. I grew up playing none of those sports but have worked with our community to support these small volunteer groups. Now I’m a coach and I run the board for my town’s youth lacrosse league. I love the community and helping to shape our next generation into hard-working, resilient athletes… who are, at the end of the day, good humans.

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OrangeSlices.ai | March 28, 2026

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Ģ����Ƶ Federal a 4-year task win on the ProTech 2.0 Satellite Domain IDIQ to support the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS).��

CNN | March 27, 2026

Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s Space Operating Group President and former astronaut, Scott Altman joined CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper to discuss the upcoming Artemis II mission and recalls his experience preparing for his first trip to space.

OrangeSlices.ai | March 18, 2026

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Ģ����Ƶ Federal a 5-year task win to continue providing support for NOAA. EMOSS VII is a major support contract used by NOAA to run and sustain its environmental satellite programs.��

Canadian Defence Review | February 23, 2026

The United States Air Force awarded ARCTEC Alaska, a joint venture between Ģ����Ƶ Federal and ATCO Frontec, a 10-year contract valued at roughly $596M USD to provide operations and maintenance services for the Alaska Radar System (ARS). Under the agreement, ARCTEC will operate and maintain 15 long-range radar sites across Alaska, two radio sites, and facilities at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, the headquarters for the ARS.

Washington Technology | February 19, 2026

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded Ģ����Ƶ Federal a potential five-year, $437.2 million contract to continue its engineering and professional services work at a key FAA office that houses training for air traffic controllers.

OrangeSlices.ai | February 17, 2026

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded Ģ����Ƶ Federal a two-year contract to provide Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS) records and information management support for EPA Region 1.��

OrangeSlices.ai | February 13, 2026

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Ģ����Ƶ Federal a $27 million contract to provide technical support services for the agency’s FMDS.��

Clearance Jobs | January 31, 2026

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency awarded Ģ����Ƶ Federal a $28 million contract to provide support services for case processing operations centers in Boyers, Pennsylvania and St. Louis, Missouri.

Loudon Now | January 17, 2026

Scott Altman, President of Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s Space Operating Group received George C. Marshall International Center’s fifth annual Marshall Award in Ethical Leadership. Before joining Ģ����Ƶ Federal in 2010, he had a distinguished career with NASA and the U.S. Navy. The former astronaut is a veteran of four space flights, logging over 51 days in space and commanding the final two servicing missions of the Hubble Space Telescope. Altman logged more than 7,000 hours in over 40 types of aircraft.

Associated Press | January 14, 2026

The Defense Logistics Agency awarded Ģ����Ƶ Federal a contract valued up to $2.3 billion to provide supply chain management for its Chemicals and Packaged Petroleum Oils and Lubricants Performance 3rd Generation (ChemPOL III) program. Under this contract, will manage DLA’s ChemPOL commodities, servicing more than 5,000 global U.S. installations as well as allied partners through Foreign Military Sales (FMS). The supply chain management and logistics team at Ģ����Ƶ Federal has supported this program since its inception in 2007.

GovCon Wire | January 7, 2026

Lori Stallard, a GovCon industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience leading business development and capture strategy, joined Ģ����Ƶ Federal as Growth Operations SVP.

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Ģ����Ƶ Federal��announced today that its joint venture��with ATCO,��, was awarded a 10-year U.S. Air Force contract to provide full-service facility operations and maintenance services at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, which comprises 15 remote long-range radar sites and two radio sites across Alaska, the largest base in the Pacific Air Force.

Originally��established��during��the��Cold War��as an early warning system to��protect��U.S. airspace, the Alaska Radar System (ARS)��remains��critical��to national security. Today, ARS provides��uninterrupted surveillance to the North American Aerospace Defense Command��(NORAD)��and the U.S. Northern Command. ARS also provides civil��aircraft��information to the Federal Aviation Administration.��

Under this contract, ARCTEC Alaska will��continue to��provide specialized��logistics��and management��expertise��to��put in place��appropriate equipment, supplies and staff to��meet mission needs.��ARCTEC has supported this program since 1994.��

“The Alaska Radar System is critical to maintaining our sovereign air space and we are proud to be entrusted with supporting the safety and security of our Nation,” said Jennifer Felix, president and CEO of Ģ����Ƶ Federal. “This follow-on contract demonstrates our ability to consistently deliver critical mission services in complex environments.”��

“As a global support and facilities management company, we are uniquely positioned to support the U.S. Air Force in Alaska,” said Jim Landon, President, ATCO Frontec. “Our expertise in some of the most remote and challenging environments is why the USAF has trusted in our abilities for decades, enabling them to maintain continuous surveillance of our skies and safe navigation for civil flights across North America.”

The Department of War��[nor a respective Military Service or any other DOW��Component] does not approve, endorse, or authorize this company, its products or services.

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At Ģ����Ƶ Federal, we believe in the power of celebration, and what better way to honor our individual and collective achievements than with the 2025 Polaris Awards! Last month, we proudly recognized our recipients during a ceremony filled with gratitude, admiration and applause for their hard work, outstanding contributions and relentless pursuit of excellence. Inspired by the North Star, the annual Polaris Awards shine a spotlight on employees who serve as guiding lights – those who exemplify an unwavering commitment to the company’s core values while navigating challenges and delivering exceptional service to our customers.

This year’s winners included 15 remarkable individuals and two notable teams who embody Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s core values: accountability, continuous improvement, integrity, respect, stewardship and teamwork. Their dedication and focus on championing the missions that matter are inspiring, and we couldn’t be prouder to celebrate their accomplishments!

“One of our highest priorities is creating opportunities for every employee to grow and thrive. I’m especially proud to honor the extraordinary ways our award winners contributed to our collective success,” said Jennifer Felix, president and CEO of Ģ����Ƶ Federal. “Our Polaris Awards recipients exemplify what it means to lead with purpose, and their contributions reflect the very heart of Ģ����Ƶ Federal.”

2025 Polaris Awards Recipients

Congratulations to the 2025 Polaris Awards recipients for their outstanding accomplishments!

Interested in a purpose driven career? Learn more about joining our team and opportunities for supporting our Nation’s most critical missions.

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We are incredibly proud to announce that Jennifer Felix, President and CEO of Ģ����Ƶ Federal, has been awarded the first-ever Legacy Heroine Award by the March of Dimes Heroines of Washington at their . This prestigious honor recognizes her commitment to leading with purpose and helping to strengthen communities across the Capital region.

The Heroines of Washington program, now in its third decade, is more than just an awards ceremony, this initiative celebrates women in the D.C. metropolitan area who make a meaningful impact beyond their job titles. , the organization behind this award, has been at the forefront of maternal and infant health for over 80 years, leading the fight for the health of all families.

A Legacy of Leadership and Service

Jennifer’s career in government contracting is marked by a commitment to ethical innovation and a drive to deliver solutions that truly serve the public good. But her influence extends far beyond our company walls. At Ģ����Ƶ Federal, Jennifer has consistently championed initiatives to build stronger and more meaningful impact in the communities our employees work and live. She has been a vocal advocate for veteran hiring initiatives, STEM outreach programs and expanding professional development opportunities for employees.

The Legacy Heroine Award specifically acknowledges her deep personal commitment to maternal and infant health, a cause central to the March of Dimes mission. Jennifer has been a member of the Heroines of Washington Awards board since 2017 and served as co-chair for four consecutive years from 2018 to 2021, elevating the awards program to new heights. Since then, she has worked behind the scenes as a member of the Executive Leadership Team and building a corporate giving initiative to benefit the March of Dimes. In the last four years, Ģ����Ƶ Federal employees have participated in annual March for Babies and have generated nearly $1M towards the organization’s mission. The company’s support goes beyond the annual March for Babies walk to include volunteer involvement and sponsorship of the March of Dimes’ Heroines of Washington event.

Reflecting on the honor, Jennifer shared her perspective:

“As an organization, Ģ����Ƶ Federal has come together to support the March of Dimes because their purpose is focused on advocating for families. Their mission resonates and connects with our shareholders because Alaska Native women have a higher risk of mortality in childbirth…When you don’t have a health pregnancy, it affects the family in so many ways. Their mission of supporting the health of women and babies and ultimately the health of the whole family is vitally important. I hope my legacy of work with the March of Dimes really inspires others to get involved.”

Watch the Interview

Earlier this year, Jennifer sat down with WashingtonExec to discuss her career, her passion for philanthropy and what this award means to her. The conversation is a moving look at a leader who measures success not just by professional milestones, but by the positive community impact she creates.

Jennifer’s recognition as a Heroine of Washington highlights the inspiring intersection of professional achievement and profound community impact and is a testament to the power of purpose-driven leadership. Please join us in congratulating Jennifer on this incredible achievement.

To learn more about how our Ģ����Ƶ Federal supported the 2025 March for Babies across the nation, please visit: /asrc-federal-walks-because-every-step-counts/

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