Our greatest asset is our employees. We celebrate their contributions to SMS' success.

157 employees and 16 teams exercised for a total of 322,000 minutes to compete for their sponsored charities.

Our 2021 Annual Awards Ceremony recognized employees for their outstanding achievements during the year.

SMS’ 2020 Annual Awards acknowledge and applaud employees’ outstanding performance and dedication throughout the year.

This spring, SMS employees and family members participated in a six-week fitness challenge promoting health and employee engagement. Similar to the 2020 challenge, participants competed with colleagues and contract teams in accumulating the most minutes of activity each week. This year, 13 teams with 157 participants ranging in age from 15 to 83 won badges…

Linh Pham came to the U.S. in 1975 after honorably serving in the South Vietnamese Air Force as a combat pilot. He settled in the Washington Metro area working multiple jobs to put himself through school, eventually starting his professional career with Xerox before coming to SMS as an engineer in 1987. Throughout his career,…

At SMS, we pride ourselves on providing the highest levels of support to our customers. On a mid-December day in 2020, Sheri Resperski found herself going above and beyond by providing critical assistance to a government manager who had become seriously ill. Sheri had travelled to her customer’s base in Maryland from her home in…

For over 20 years, SMS has recognized the dedication and value each employee contributes with anniversary awards. This tradition began with ten-year anniversary watches and has expanded to include six more milestones ranging from one to twenty years. In 2020, over 400 employees received awards, including SMS-branded travel mugs, jackets, backpacks, and coolers. SMS’ Payroll…

This summer, SMS partnered with Cigna to beat the quarantine blues by engaging SMS employees and family members to participate in a 6-week fitness challenge. The challenge encouraged friendly competition between colleagues and teams to see who had the most fitness activity each week.  Participants won badges, participated in a little competitive banter, and were…

Engineer Of The Year Congratulations to Shawn Silva-Cosgrove, our 2019 SMS Engineer of the Year. As the Customer Service Center Manager on SMS’s Base Level IT Support (BLITS) contract at Hanscom AFB Base, Shawn transformed the team’s approach and processes to significantly improve service desk restoral times, increase customer satisfaction, and improve performance and morale…

Employees at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) have been fortunate to have SMS engineer Robert Cross-Price as their co-worker during COVID-19. Robert has so far brought 50+ masks to his co-workers at DTRA. He has also donated them to employees at his local grocery store and has been offering them freely to anyone who…

Purchasing Manager Molly Murphy started with SMS in 2010 and has steadily developed into an integral part of the company. Molly has been the focal point in supporting our increasingly complex customer requirements as well as ensuring that all of our employees have the tools necessary to do their jobs. Ben Friedman, Vice President of…

Director Of Engineering Andrew Stanley has nearly 20 years of experience at SMS as a functional architect in the planning, design, implementation, and administration of hybrid infrastructures at scale. He specializes in vendor agnostic, agile approaches to building secure, repeatable and survivable infrastructures using DevSecOps practices. Mr. Stanley currently provides his expertise on the Army’s…