[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 135 (Thursday, September 26, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S11446]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      COMMENDING THE SENTEL CORP.

 Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I rise today to congratulate the 
SENTEL Corporation of Alexandria, VA for its designation by the Small 
Business Administration as the Subcontractor of the Year for Region 
III, which encompasses the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, 
Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
  Under the leadership of President James Garrett, SENTEL has become a 
leading firm providing software used to deconflict the electromagnetic 
spectrum in military operations. SENTEL was also selected by NASA to 
reengineer the space shuttle quality assurance inspection process to a 
paperless, wireless environment. Furthermore, SENTEL developed the 
Navy's first chemical-biological detection system and was one of the 
many small contractors whose systems performed so well during the 
Desert Storm operation in Iraq.
  The SENTEL Corp. represents the best of what the Section 8(a) program 
was designed to achieve. Although SENTEL has 2 years remaining in the 
8(a) program, SENTEL's services are contracted not because it is a 
minority organization but because it provides top-notch products and 
services. In fact, SENTEL is ranked by Technology Transfer Business 
Magazine as one of the top 500 fastest-growing technology companies in 
the United States and by Washington Technology Magazine as one of the 
50 fastest-growing companies in the Washington metropolitan area for 
the fifth consecutive year.
  To point out the growth of high technology industries in Virginia, 
Gov. George Allen has referred to Virginia as the Silicon Dominion. 
SENTEL represents the best of these great Virginia businesses. On 
behalf of the people of Virginia, I am proud to express my admiration 
and congratulations to SENTEL for its designation as Subcontractor of 
the Year.

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