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Monday, January 08, 2007

OnPoint Staffing Featured in the Smart CEO Future 50 2007 edition

For the third straight year, OnPoint Staffing, Inc. has been featured as one of Baltimore's fastest growing Future 50 companies.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Things Happening at OnPoint Staffing

OnPoint Staffing has been going through some new and exciting changes over the past year. We have been featured as part of Baltimore's 50 fastest growing companies for two years in a row in Smart CEO Magazine (Required Reading for Growing Companies).

OnPoint Staffing has started two new corporations, OnPoint Staffing and LexPoint Technologies. OnPoint Staffing is a Maryland based Light Industrial Staffing company, operating as a full service contingent, evaluation to hire and direct placement personnel provider servicing a multitude of industries throughout North America.

We recently partnered with another corporation forming LexPoint Technologies. LexPoint Technologies is an earned value consulting company specializing in earned value cost analysis.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Annapolis Incubator Nabs 4 More

by Robert J. Terry
Staff, MSNBC

The Chesapeake Innovation Center is welcoming four more companies into its fold -- including one led by a Navy SEAL who is G. Gordon Liddy's son -- sustaining a pace of feverish growth that shows no signs of slowing as the federal government continues to pour money into homeland security.

U.S. intelligence agencies and large corporations are looking more and more to small and innovative technology startups for answers on everything from counterterrorism strategies to information analysis -- and the Annapolis technology incubator is reaping the benefits.

The companies are:

  • Red Cell Associates, a "risk mitigation" firm led by James Liddy, a Navy SEAL and the son of syndicated radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy. The company's brain trust has extensive counterterrorism experience at the Pentagon, even helping create Department of Defense terrorism protection plans.
  • U.K.-based BeCrypt, which counts some of Europe's leading law enforcement, financial services and health care organizations as customers and hopes to break into the U.S. market. Officials with the British embassy, knowing BeCrypt was looking for a U.S. base of operations, contacted the CIC on the company's behalf.
  • CINTT, an intelligence training and technology development firm.
  • Bridgeborn, which is developing visual analytics technology to pull and organize data from various sources and mine the information for valuable business intelligence.

The four additions brings to 18 the number of companies led by national security entrepreneurs wanting to do business under CIC's roof. Those companies are developing everything from a potential anthrax vaccine to a way to generate more accurate terrorist watch lists and have attracted about $80 million in funding.

Company executives continue to be attracted to the opportunity to trade on CIC contacts at the National Security Agency, the secretive Fort Meade spy agency that is a key CIC business partner. The incubator's growing staff also continues to build inroads with the government's defense and intelligence communities.

"Many incubators are usually real estate plays. We quickly understood they were not," said Tim Ambrosino, CEO of Bridgeborn, an analytics company currently based in Virginia Beach, Va. "This is about getting a group of companies together than can provide a total solution to organizations like the NSA."

Local and state officials see the CIC as a catalyst helping form a cluster of informatics and security firms in Greater Baltimore that will grow to be trusted partners of government intelligence agencies, which traditionally have been wary about working closely with the private sector.

"CIC is on the cutting edge. They have great contacts with people doing new and emerging things in homeland security," said J. Michael Barrett, Red Cell's vice president for business development. "We tracked them down through reputation."

The additions to the incubator's roster of companies comes as the National Business Incubation Association brings its annual conference to Baltimore May 15-18.

Four more sponsors have signed agreements in recent weeks to help subsidize CIC operations and get first crack at forging deals with incubator companies. They include M&T Bank (the first bank to sign a sponsorship agreement), American Express Tax and Business Services, transportation consulting firm Trident Global Partners and OnPoint Staffing, a recruiting firm. As sponsors, companies pay $5,000 to $25,000.

Incubator managers are working to balance CIC's portfolio of companies, which typically focus on physical security, cyber security and informatics. The four additions means CIC will be better able to match solutions being developed at the incubator with government agencies and corporations wrestling with security challenges, CEO John Elstner said.

"The CIC is based on a knowledge network of people and these four companies bring a wealth of resources to us," Elstner added.

NSA, Northrop Grumman, BearingPoint and others are all on the lookout for new tools that can be used to protect data, communications, transportation infrastructure and public health from potential threats -- an attack on a power plant, for example. The NSA in particular is grappling with an information overload problem, trying to sift through reams of cell phone and Internet communications and make sense of the chatter in an effort to keep pace with rapid change in global telecommunications.

NSA spent about $2 billion in 2003 on contract work in Maryland.

These organizations and others have formal partnerships with the CIC. The incubator, backed by the Anne Arundel County Economic Development Corp., has quickly gained notice for its portfolio and success working with NSA.

CIC won a $445,000 contract last November to vet research and products for the agency, a move state and county officials consider a key first step in forming a cluster of informatics companies in the region.

"We think that physical and cyber security, as well as this critical infrastructure resilience [push] and informatics, is kind of the sweet spot," Elstner added.

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