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Zin Technologies, Inc.


NASA Minority Business of the Year Award

9/18/2003

NASA has named ZIN Technologies, Inc. the winner of the 2003 Minority Business of the Year Award. This prestigious award recognizes that ZIN Tech has significantly contributed to the success of the NASA and the Glenn Research Center’s mission.

' ZIN is extremely proud of providing NASA with engineering and product development services for over 30 years,' said Daryl Laisure, ZIN Tech’s President and CEO. 'This award reflects the pride, dedication to quality, and day-to-day commitment of our employees in supporting NASA Glenn.

Presentation of the Glenn Contractor of the Year Award signifies NASA’s recognition that ZIN has demonstrated excellence, continuous improvement and outstanding technical and managerial achievement in quality and performance. As a result of this award, ZIN will now compete for the 2003 George M. Low Award, NASA's premier quality and performance award.

This award is given to contractors who demonstrate outstanding achievement within several nomination factors: customer satisfaction and contract technical performance, cost performance, management initiatives to proactively meet GRC’s needs and build relationships with NASA, commitment to Safety, Contract Management Initiatives, mentoring small businesses, NASA advocacy, and community outreach, employee development, and equal opportunity commitment. The latter is mostly concerned with developing and nurturing our employee and vendor base.

ZIN performs on two contracts with GRC dealing with spaceflight and aerospace system development and operations. ZIN Tech operates under an ISO certified Quality Management System (QMS). The QMS and sustained outstanding technical performance were cited by Glenn as a key discriminator in ZIN Tech’s selection. ZIN Tech has been an active partner with GRC on more than 95 science payloads since 1990. Recently, ZIN Tech was one of the first developers operating science payloads on the ISS with a continuous presence since April, 2001. ZIN Tech supports a variety of programs including the International Space Station, Next Generation Launch Technology, Orbital Space Plane, Aircraft Safety and Communications, Power Systems, and advanced MEMS sensor systems.