Contract Award: $350M for Risk Management, Demining, and Explosives Management in the Middle East and Africa
LENOIR CITY — Sterling Global Operations (SGO), an international stability operations company, has recently been awarded contracts totaling more than $350 million for risk management, demining, and explosives management in the Middle East and Africa. The contracts are with governmental and commercial clients and extend over the next five years.
"It's rewarding to our employees personally that we safeguard U.S. military members and civilians in foreign countries from landmines and other explosive remnants of war," said Matt Kaye, SGO chief executive officer. The services we provide often take us into conflict and post-conflict areas to reduce or eliminate risk, at less cost, that our clients would otherwise face," he said.
SGO's services are munitions response; demining; intelligence support; logistics; risk management; communications; and more, in difficult and sometimes dangerous environments.
SGO, with 15 offices currently managing operations in 18 countries, has also been cited as one of America's largest employee-owned companies as well as put on the Forbes list of America's Best Employers.
SGO, in March, became the first American company to earn worldwide certification under ANSI/ASIS PSC.1-2012, an international standard designed specifically for private security company quality management systems.
Hailey Fecher, SGO human resources manager, said SGO's ranking as one of America's largest employee-owned companies is "a testimony to the motivational power of ownership."
The National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) ranks SGO – 100 percent employee-owned - as the nation's 41st largest Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) company. There are over 800 participants in the company's ownership program.
"When you own the company you have extra motivation to dedicate yourself to its success," said Fecher. "It brings out the best in us individually and as a team."
ABOUT Sterling Global Operations
Sterling Global maintains the highest level of safety, quality and ethics in all aspects of our work. Headquartered in Lenoir City, Tennessee, Sterling Global Operations is an employee-owned, ISO 9001:2008 registered worldwide security and infrastructure support company employing approximately 3,500 professionals worldwide. Sterling Global has 18 offices in North, Central, and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia.