Inc. 5000 named 38 businesses who graduated from the Veteran Institute for Procurement (VIP) in its annual list of fastest growing companies in America. Of the 38 VIP Graduate companies listed, 19 of them were also featured on last year’s Inc. 5000 list. 11 awardees are in top 25%.
VIP is a certification training program designed for veteran-owned companies to increase their ability to win government contracts by establishing best business practices. VIP arms veteran-owned small businesses to win contracts in the Federal Marketplace. VIP participants are provided with specific knowledge and best practices to help accelerate their businesses. Some of the session topics include Strategic Planning in the Federal Marketplace, Financing Solutions in the Federal Marketplace, Labor Rules & Regulations: Federal Market Compliance, and Marketing to Win.
The VIP program includes five (5) educational training curriculums for owners, principals, and C‐level executives of VOSB/SDVOSBs. Those programs are VIP START, VIP GROW, VIP ADVANCE, VIP INTERNATIONAL and VIP AEROSPACE. To date, VIP has trained over 2,300 veteran-owned companies across all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam.
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The VIP Graduate companies featured on the list include:
| Rank | VIP Graduate Company |
| 34 | Goldschmitt and Associates LLC |
| 108 | Black Box Safety, Inc. |
| 115 | rockITdata, LLC |
| 261 | Distributed Technology Group LLC |
| 343 | Windsor Group LLC |
| 387 | RP Professional Services, LLC |
| 406 | Caladwich Consulting LLC |
| 459 | Sierra 7, Inc. |
| 491 | OneZero Solutions, LLC |
| 1112 | ThinkTek, LLC |
| 1131 | Dominguez Design-Build, Inc. |
| 1290 | Vectrona-Ita Solutions, LLC |
| 1342 | Advanced Program Analytics, LLC |
| 1352 | Veratics, Inc. dba GoVets |
| 1391 | Green Powered Technology LLC |
| 1792 | PingWind Inc. |
| 2056 | IT Concepts, Inc. |
| 2173 | H2L Solutions, Inc. |
| 2300 | EGA Associates, LLC |
| 2343 | Blake Willson Group, LLC |
| 2358 | 3 Reasons Consulting, LLC |
| 2523 | EM Key Solutions, Inc. |
| 3023 | Athena Technology Group, Inc. (ATG) |
| 3074 | Mayvin, Inc. |
| 3255 | Powder River Industries, LLC |
| 3708 | Oxley Enterprises, Inc |
| 3863 | Objective Area Solutions, LLC |
| 3885 | Greencastle Associates Consulting |
| 3928 | Joint Strategic Technologies (JST) |
| 3968 | Shoup Legal, a Professional Law Corporation |
| 4306 | RB Consulting, Inc. |
| 4533 | scDataCom |
| 4567 | Seventh Sense Consulting, LLC |
| 4583 | COLUMBIA Technologies |
| 4702 | TIME Systems, LLC |
| 4894 | Pathfinder Consultants, LLC |
| 4943 | ACE Consulting Company, LLC |
| 4973 | TISTA Science and Technology Corporation |
