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Highlight Technologies (“Highlight”) supports the Small Business Administration (SBA) through the Office of Capital Access (OCA) and the Office of Disaster Assistance (ODA) by providing loan processing services, financial analysis, and administrative support services before and during the coronavirus pandemic.

In March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic created unforeseen and unimaginable challenges for millions of citizens and businesses. Due to the dramatic effects, the CARES Act was passed by the U.S. Congress, in result providing significant relief and resources for small businesses including $349 billion in SBA loan guaranties and additional resources for SBA programs. The CARES Act also provided an expansion of the current SBA 7(a) loan program to support the new Paycheck Protection Program.

Highlight was brought in to support SBA to provide surge support in response to the immediate and mission critical Coronavirus surge needs. Highlight provides full lifecycle loan processing support to SBA ODA to provide economic relief to small business owners, citizens, and non–profits throughout the United States. Highlight supports SBA OCA with dedicated loan servicing professionals to ensure loans are reviewed for forgiveness through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Highlight also supports the SBA’s 504, 7(a) and disaster loan program to work with small businesses and homeowners regarding loans issued by the SBA.

Highlight staff supporting the EIDL surge effort have processed over 1 million loans to small businesses.

“We’re honored to be in a position to use our business platform to fulfill vital services in support of the pandemic response. Our investment in HI-WAY™, our best practices for service delivery, enabled Highlight to scale and delivery services rapidly while maintaining quality” said Adam McNair, COO of Highlight.

“I’m so glad that Highlight is part of the recovery effort for small businesses and others affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was not long ago that we were a very small business ourselves, so we understand the challenges and uncertainty these businesses face. We are appreciative to the SBA for trusting Highlight to support them in this important mission,” said Rebecca Andino, CEO of Highlight.

About Small Business Administration

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 to support small business owners and entrepreneurs. The SBA is the only cabinet-level federal agency fully dedicated to small business and provides counseling, capital, and contracting expertise as the nation’s only go-to resource and voice for small businesses.

SBA OCA helps to make capital available to small businesses, through banks and other lending partners, that conventionally would not be able to access credit.

SBA ODA provides low interest, long term loans to repair or replace property and other business assets that have been impacted by a disaster.

About Highlight Technologies

Highlight Technologies (“Highlight”) is an award-winning, employee-owned, ISO® 9001, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, ISO 44001 certified, ISO 56000 certified, CMMI-DEV Level 3, and CMMI-SVC Level 3 appraised federal contractor that provides IT development and transformation, secure IT operations, and mission support services to more than 20 U.S. federal government customers. Our customers include National Security (DHS, State, Army, Navy, DISA, the Joint Staff, DTRA, Intel), Health IT (USAID, USDA, NIH, HRSA, EPA) and Citizen Services (FCC, FDIC, FTC, GSA, HHS, SBA, Education, Labor). For more information, please visit www.highlighttech.com.

Fairfax, VA – Highlight has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to support the General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Corporate IT Services (IC) to support the enhancement of essential enterprise functions. The BPA will support critical technology transformation to support employee efficiency, support security system development, maintenance, design, general IT support services, and more to support CXO IT systems.

Highlight currently supports GSA through GSA Schedule 70 and GSA PSS MOBIS by providing various IT services. Our team’s expertise involves servicing various contracts IT architecture, design & strategy, DevSecOps, Cybersecurity, Network, and Systems Administration. Our HI-WAY™TM framework allows helps our team to deliver quality solutions customized to every project and mission.

Adam McNair, Highlight President, and COO said, “We’re thrilled to continue our support of GSA as we help them develop solutions and tools that help drive, advance, and innovate government.”

“Highlight is excited about this win, and we look forward to supporting GSA’s enterprise IT systems portfolio through this BPA. Our team is well-positioned to provide agile and innovative IT solutions and services. We will leverage our HI-WAY™TM Framework, Highlight’s DevSecOps and IT infrastructure capabilities, as well as the breadth and depth of our excellent teaming partners,” said Rebecca Andino, Highlight CEO.

About Highlight

Highlight is an award-winning ISO® 9001, ISO 20000. ISO 27001, ISO 44001, ISO 56002 certified, CMMI-DEV Level 3 and CMMI-SVC Level 3 appraised employee-owned business that provides critical services to more than 20 U.S. federal government customers. Using our HI-WAY™™ best practices framework, we design and deliver solutions that integrate current systems and procedures, address all stakeholders, and seamlessly advance the mission. With over 10 years of federal contracting experience, we apply our proven transformation and evolution process to deliver quality services that balance agility, continuity, security, and compliance.

October 15, 2021 Fairfax, VA — Highlight has ranked #4 on the 2021 Washington Business Journal’s 75 Fastest Growing Companies award list and Washington Business Journal’s Largest Woman-Owned Business in Greater DC.

Highlight is one of the 75 companies in the Washington D.C. area to accept the 75 Fastest Growing Companies award, and one of 30 to accept a ranking on the Largest Woman-Owned Businesses in Greater DC. Both recognitions are determined by the percentage revenue growth from 2018-2020. Highlight’s revenue has grown significantly for two consecutive years between 2018 and 2020 with an average growth revenue percentage of 149.24%. Additionally, Highlight’s employee growth has been 386.18% over the past three years.

Rebecca Andino, Highlight CEO, “I’m thrilled that Highlight made this prestigious list! Our growth is due to great partnerships with our customers, teaming partners, and most of all, our amazing team of employees. It was also so exciting to have an in-person event again, and I am grateful to WBJ and the sponsors for this event and program.”

About Highlight

Highlight is an award-winning ISO® 9001, ISO 20000. ISO 27001, ISO 44001, ISO 56002 certified, CMMI-DEV Level 3 and CMMI-SVC Level 3 appraised employee-owned business that provides critical services to more than 20 U.S. federal government customers. Using our HI-WAY™™ best practices framework, we design and deliver solutions that integrate current systems and procedures, address all stakeholders, and seamlessly advance the mission. With over 10 years of federal contracting experience, we apply our proven transformation and evolution process to deliver quality services that balance agility, continuity, security, and compliance.

About Washington Business Journal

Washington Business Journal is owned by parent company American City Business Journals. American City Business Journals (ACBJ) is the largest publisher of metropolitan business newsweeklies in the United States, with 44 business publications across the country reaching more than 3.6 million readers each week.

October 5, 2021 – Fairfax, VA – Highlight was announced as a 2021 NVFS CARE Award recipient. CARE Awards are awarded to DC Metro Area-based companies with significant commitments to employee engagement—both at work and home—and community service.  This win is Highlight’s second consecutive win building on our win in 2019. Due to the pandemic, the 2020 CARE Awards were canceled.

Highlight is firmly committed to supporting its employees and the community. In 2021, Highlight employees participated in four service opportunities that benefitted non-profit organizations as a part of our Highlight Cares Initiative, an effort designed to demonstrate our dedication to community service and employee engagement.

In 2021, Highlight conducted a Nationwide Virtual Food Drive, Environmental Service Competition, Back to School Drive, and will hold a Holiday Gift Drive at the end of the year. The food drive resulted in employees donating $1526 items to food banks across the nation, and Highlight donating $10,000 to Feeding America. The Environmental Service competition resulted in over 100 hours of clean-up, wildlife and nature tending, and implementation of more sustainable practices, and 1000 tree donations to One Tree Planted. In our third initiative, Sweat for the Vets, our team competed in mileage and 5k competition and ran a t-shirt campaign, resulting in $6787 donated to benefit The Mission Continues. The Highlight Cares Back-To-School-Drive helping Women Giving Back resulted in $835 employee donations, countless school supplies, and a corporate donation of $2000. Highlight will conduct our fifth initiative at the end of the year.

Highlight is dedicated to providing rewarding careers through impactful projects and competitive benefits designed to support its employees in their work and home lives. Highlight offers a variety of opportunities to grow professionally, such as leadership and career development programs. When it’s time to play, Highlight prioritizes times to build community within the company, with its Special Interest Groups within the Highlight internal communication channels or its launch parties for significant events or projects, such as Spirit Week!

“It’s an honor to be recognized with a CARE Award for the second year in a row. I’m proud of our entire Highlight team for their hard work, creativity, and generosity in developing and supporting our community service and employee support and recognition programs. Thank you to NVFS and the Highlight team for this recognition!” said Rebecca Andino, CEO of Highlight.

The 2021 CARE Awards will be hosted virtually this year on the morning of Tuesday, November 16, due to the ongoing pandemic.

Information on attending or sponsoring is available at nvfs.org/careawards.

About Highlight

Highlight is an award-winning ISO® 9001, ISO 20000. ISO 27001, ISO 44001, ISO 56002‑certified, CMMI-DEV Level 3, and CMMI-SVC Level 3‑appraised, employee-owned federal government contractor that provides critical services to more than twenty U.S. federal government customers. Using our HI-WAY™™ best-practices framework, we design and deliver solutions that integrate current systems and procedures, address the concerns of all stakeholders, and seamlessly advance the missions of our customers. With over ten years of federal contracting experience, we apply our proven transformation and evolution process to deliver quality services that balance agility, continuity, security, and compliance. To learn more, visit www.highlighttech.com.

September 24th, Fairfax, VA – Highlight has been awarded a prime contract to support the National Institute of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Research (CSR). The contract consists of a six-month base period with nine successive option periods resulting in an estimated $26 million for complete contract execution.

Highlight will support the NIH mission with facilitation and coordination services focused on grants management, stakeholder engagement, and enterprise-wide coordination. Our team will support the full grant cycle for NIH CSR’s annual processing of over 100,000 applications for NIH’s 27 Institutes and Centers.

“This program is a perfect fit for Highlight because we thrive at the intersection of technology and mission. Our HI-WAY™^TM certified processes for innovation management and stakeholder engagement will drive innovations for NIH that directly benefit their mission,” said Adam McNair, President and COO.

“We are honored and excited to continue to support NIH CSR in carrying out its mission to provide a fair, independent, expert, and timely scientific review for NIH research grants. In the age of COVID, it is significant that we can continue to support this mission. From a business perspective, this is a key contract in Highlight’s HHS portfolio, and our Grants Management and Health IT lines of business, and a major recompete win for us,” said Rebecca Andino, Highlight CEO.

 

About Highlight

Highlight is an award-winning ISO® 9001, ISO 20000. ISO 27001, ISO 44001, ISO 56002‑certified, CMMI-DEV Level 3, and CMMI-SVC Level 3‑appraised, employee-owned federal government contractor that provides critical services to more than twenty U.S. federal government customers. Using our HI-WAY™™ best-practices framework, we design and deliver solutions that integrate current systems and procedures, address the concerns of all stakeholders, and seamlessly advance the missions of our customers. With over ten years of federal contracting experience, we apply our proven transformation and evolution process to deliver quality services that balance agility, continuity, security, and compliance. To learn more, visit www.highlighttech.com.

September 16, 2021, Fairfax, VA – Highlight has been awarded a subcontract opportunity to support Medical Science & Computing LLC, a Dovel Company, across the National Institute of Health (NIH) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Scientific, Operations, and Administrative Resources (SOAR) contract.

SOAR will support NIH’s 27 Institutes and Centers by supporting operations, clinical research support, facility operations, maintenance, engineering and architecture support, technical IT services, analysis support, communication and publishing services, and administrative support.

Adam McNair, Highlight President and COO, said, “We’re excited to advance our capabilities in Health IT as we mature the integration of ISO 44001 and ISO 56000 to deliver higher quality outreach and innovation support to NIH.”

“Highlight appreciates the opportunity to team with Dovel and continue serving NIH’s biomedical research program through the SOAR program. I am especially excited about this win because it allows us to offer NIH the talents of our large scientific research-focused workforce, and it provides career advancement opportunities for our team members” said Rebecca Andino, Highlight CEO.

 

About Highlight

For over ten years, Highlight has provided development and modernization, secure IT, and mission solutions for our U.S. federal government customers. Using our HI-WAY™^TM best practices framework, we design and deliver solutions that integrate current systems and procedures, address all stakeholders, and seamlessly advance the mission. Highlight is an award-winning woman-owned, ISO® 9001, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, ISO 44001 certified, CMMI-DEV Level 3, and CMMI-SVC Level 3 appraised small business that provides critical services to more than 20 U.S. federal government customers. For more information, please visit www.highlighttech.com.

Fairfax, VA – August 17, 2021 – Inc. Magazine today revealed that Highlight Technologies is No. 820 on the annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000 list.

“We’re proud of this ranking because it shows that running an ethical business and taking care of your employees is a sustainable strategy. We’re excited about the growth because it continues to provide opportunities for our employee-owners here at Highlight,” said Adam McNair, Highlight President and COO.

“We are thrilled to be named to the Inc. 5000 list for the first time. It’s an honor to be listed among so many other entrepreneurial companies, and we congratulate all our fellow honorees,” said Rebecca Andino, Highlight CEO.

Not only have the companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000 been very competitive within their markets, but this year’s list also proved especially resilient and flexible given 2020’s unprecedented challenges. Among the 5000, the average median three-year growth rate soared to 543 percent, and median revenue reached $11.1 million. Together, those companies added more than 610,000 jobs over the past three years.

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc., which will be available on newsstands on August 17.

“The 2021 Inc. 5000 list feels like one of the most important rosters of companies ever compiled,” says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. “Building one of the fastest-growing companies in America in any year is a remarkable achievement. Building one in the crisis we’ve lived through is just plain amazing. This kind of accomplishment comes with hard work, smart pivots, great leadership, and the help of a whole lot of people.”

 

About Highlight

Highlight is an award-winning, ISO® 9001, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, ISO 44001, ISO 56002‑certified, CMMI-DEV Level 3‑, and CMMI-SVC Level 3‑appraised, an employee-owned federal government contractor that provides critical services to more than twenty U.S. federal government customers. Using our HI-WAY™™ best-practices framework, we design and deliver solutions that integrate current systems and procedures, address the concerns of all stakeholders, and seamlessly advance the missions of our customers. With over 10 years of federal contracting experience, we apply our proven transformation and evolution process to deliver quality services that balance agility, continuity, security, and compliance. To learn more, visit www.highlighttech.com.

More about Inc. and the Inc. 5000

Methodology

Companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2017 to 2020. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2017. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2020. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2017 is $100,000; the minimum for 2020 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to three decimal places. There was one tie on this year’s Inc. 5000.  Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.’s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.

About Inc. Media

The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including web sites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Vision Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.

For more information on the Inc. 5000 Vision Conference, visit http://conference.inc.com/.

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