Aquila Spirit 777 INC Capability Statement

Top Secret Facility Clearance

Aquila Spirit 777 INC

Company Address:
2720 Boswell Avenue,
Alexandria, Virginia 22306

Contact Person: Amel E. Smith
Telephone: 703-408-2056
Email: red1red2@aol.com

Washington DC Regional Office:
2720 Boswell Ave
Alexandria, VA 22306

Phone: (703) 408-2056
Fax: (703) 842-8100

Business Ownership: Single Owner, INC

DUNS Number: 118035238
CAGE Code: 980T7
UEI: K41UNXHYBAJ9

Website Address: Pending

Contacts:

  • Amel Smith – CEO & President
    • red1red2@aol.com
    • Clearance: Top Secret Clearance / SCI.
    • Citizenship: U.S. born citizen.
    • Professional Intelligence and Security Subject Matter Expert.
  • Karan Smith – Secretary/Treasurer, karanbrooks@aol.com

NAICS Codes:

  • Primary 541611: Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
  • Primary 541618: Other Management Consulting Services
  • 541519: Other Computer Related Services
  • 541612: Consulting Services
  • 541618: Other Management Consulting Services
  • 541690: Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
  • 541930: Translation and Interpretation Services
  • 541990: All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
  • 561110: Office Administrative Services
  • 561210: Facilities Support Services
  • 561320: Temporary Help Services
  • 561499: All Other Business Support Services
  • 561611: Investigation Services
  • 561621: Security Systems Services (Except Locksmiths)
  • 561990: All Other Support Services
  • 611430: Professional and Management Development Training
  • 611699: All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction
  • 922190: Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities
  • 928110: National Security

Business Size/Classification:

  • Small Business <$1,500,000
  • 8(a) Certified through 2031
  • Veteran-Owned Business (VOSB)
  • Minority-Owned Business Entity (MBE)
  • Small Disadvantaged Business Entity (SDB)

Clearances: Our personnel are US Government cleared up to Top Secret/SCI levels

Our Capabilities Include: Counterintelligence/analysis/ Insider Threat / Cyber Security / TSCM/Research & Technology Protection / Linguist Support /Special Access Program Support / Multi-Disciplinary Security Briefing/Debriefing Travel Support / Intelligence Analysis/Special Security Operations

We are skilled and experienced in Intelligence operations both strategic and tactical.

Amel and Karan Smith of Aquila Spirit 777 Inc


Aquila Spirit 777 is owned, operated, led, and managed by Amel E. Smith, a retired 20-year US Army Officer/veteran who last served as the Commander, National Capital Region Military Intelligence Detachment, Fort Belvoir, VA. His background consists of 20 years of military service. His first assignment at 18 years old was with the 82nd Airborne Division as an enlisted Infantry Paratrooper, where he formed and developed the foundations of his life and career—brotherhood, loyalty, fearlessness, leadership, and the mandated goal of mission accomplishment no matter how small or large the mission.

Later in his military career, as a Counterintelligence (CI) Special Agent and a military officer, he formed the pillars of his future successes: honesty, integrity, trust, faith, dedication, compassion, and forgiveness.

Mr. Smith served in combat operations in Desert Storm I/Kuwait and Grenada. He provided intel and force protection support in Haiti and Bosnia. He served as an Operations Officer, the Counterintelligence Special Agent in Charge, Counter Espionage officer at the Pentagon Resident Office, and a Detachment Commander in the US Intelligence and Security Command in Italy, Germany, and the Washington DC National Capital region.

Background: Mr. Smith brings forty-three (43) years of operational, managerial, and technical expertise and experience supporting the Military and, as a civilian, numerous U.S. Government Agencies. His background includes experience in conducting security-oriented investigations and training. He is a highly skilled and experienced investigator, skilled at the collection of background information concerning foreign and domestic individuals, groups, and organizations that pose a threat to national security. He is highly skilled in interrogation techniques and skilled in liaison abilities with local and federal law enforcement, intelligence, and security agencies. He has an extensive background in conducting physical surveys of installations and facilities to identify and minimize vulnerabilities. His extensive background in public speaking and formal briefs of groups up to 500 plus personnel includes general officers and senior civilians. He has formal training and qualification as an instructor. He is a certified Counterintelligence Special Agent, Cryptologic facility inspector, Special Security Officer, and Italian linguist.

After his superior military career and honorable discharge, Mr. Smith spent 12 years directly assigned to and supporting the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), Department of State (DoS), as a MANTECH company Director and an onsite Program Manager with the title “Senior Technical Advisor” to the Director of the Office of Information Security, managing an 80-million-dollar contract, with over 80 personnel located in 5 countries and 5 different US locations. He supported on-the-ground operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Israel, Egypt, Yemen, the Philippines, China, and numerous other US Embassy locations. He designed, developed, and implemented several security programs including the Insider Threat Program, the Cyber Security Program, the Special Security Operations Office, including operations, information, personnel, and facility Security programs, and the TS/SCI systems information assurance Program for the Intelligence and Research Bureau (INR). He designed and managed several IT systems solutions such as Fellowship of Hope (FOH) network for the Foreign Exchange officers, which was an information-sharing Cross Domain solution.

He designed and oversaw the creation of the Office of Overseas Buildings (OBO) Projnet (C) classified and Projnet (U) unclassified solution to securely pass US Embassy blueprints and drawings to and from US government contractors.

Mr. Smith designed, developed, installed, and managed the lifesaving Blue Force tracker program and system for more than 20 different US Embassies worldwide.

Mr. Smith’s technical expertise in cyber, network, information assurance, information technology, physical personnel, and communications security were key in his success as the Senior Technical Advisor to the Director of Security Infrastructure, Diplomatic Security, DoS. Mr. Smith’s vast experience allows him to find solutions to government problems.

For the past 13 years, Mr. Smith has been working as a Corporate Executive Director and a Program Manager and has been directly managing government contracts, which gives him over 23 years managing government contracts. The contracts he has managed include the Department of the Army, Department of State, Department of Treasury, Department of Homeland Security, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, the Pentagon Special Security Office, two CI Technical Surveillance Countermeasures

contracts, the Intelligence and Security Command Special Security Office, the Iraq and Afghanistan contract for the DOD Language Interpretation and Translation Enterprise (DLITE) contract, the Department of State Iraq Senior linguist and cultural advisor support to the US Embassy senior leadership.

In addition to having been a very successful senior Program Manager, his expertise includes 23 years holding various positions dual-hatted as a Corporate Executive Director reporting to corporate presidents and CEOs for large and small businesses. In these roles, he managed and was directly responsible for overseeing numerous contracts, hiring, positive and negative counseling, and in certain cases, removing personnel from contracts. Managerial experience includes management of contracts, personnel, equipment, procurement, financial reporting, quality control/assurance, and operations management.

This experience includes ODCs reports tracking and accountability of equipment procurement and deployment. He was also responsible for creating, tracking, and submitting all mandatory monthly, weekly, and annual reports reporting all financial aspects of every contract to include labor, vehicle rental, travel, per diem, and other contract requirements. On all contracts, he developed and ensured strict quality control plans and quality assurance programs and managed and directed operational needs and requirements.

Operational experience includes strategic overt and clandestine operations, tactical counterintelligence operations, intelligence analysis, risk management, security support to US Embassy operations, and US military operations. This includes in-depth knowledge of security and intelligence policy and procedural directives. Technical experience includes secure computing knowledge ranging from technical COMSEC integration to policy and procedural security; administration of computer systems, both standalone and server administration; computer hardware and software configuration; computer network designing, building, and administration; certification and accreditation and network process engineering and technical documentation.

Mr. Smith has provided oversight to personnel on government contracts that provide Cyber, Forensic, Insider Threat, TSCM, Security, bringing leadership and management experience to meet customer expectations for timely and quality deliverables. On occasion, he has been requested to provide direct support to the customer’s Cyber and Forensic needs. Mr. Smith has extensive experience in Business Development (BD) providing over 10 years in all aspects of BD.

Aquila Spirit 777’s Past Performance

Amel Smith – Aquila Spirit 777
President/CEO Oct 2020 – Present

Serves as the President of Aquila Spirit, currently providing Program Management Serve as a consultant to Purdy group LLC support to the DoS Bureaus of NEA and SCA linguist and cultural advisor contract, where linguist and cultural advisors support the US Embassy Senior Staff in Iraq, Afghanistan and Qatar . Also the Program manager for the TS/SCI Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) Counterintelligence foreign vetting program, and counter-terrorism analysis contracts. Mr Smith occasionally will provide onsite counterintelligence support as a backfill when needed.

Manages contracts, personnel, equipment, procurement, financial reporting, quality control/assurance, and operations management. This experience includes tracking and accountability of equipment procurement and deployment. Also was responsible for tracking and reporting all financial aspects of every contact to include Labor, ODCs apartment, and vehicle rental, passports Visas, work permits, licensing, Travel, Per Diem, and other requirements.

Serves as an Aquila Spirit 777consultant to Advantage SCI, LLCperforming as a Program Manager on TS/SCI government contracts. As a consultant he recently was the Program Manager for the Defense CI and Security Agency’s (DCSA) Intelligence Information Reports writing contract which he took from a failing program from another contractor to an extremely successful contract.

For the past 11 years HE has been the Program Manager for the Department of Defense Language Interpretation and Translation Enterprises (DLITE where he manages employees who provide the full range of foreign language solutions to the Department of Defense (DoD) in support of forces engaged in humanitarian, peacekeeping, contingency and combat operations around the world for the two past years of which were as a Aquila Spirit consultant and new he manages the DLITE language contract in Iraq and in Afghanistan. He anamages an average of 15-20 personnel in Iraq. He has provided successful management of resources, quality control, personnel and contract budgets. Responsible for Excellent CPARs ratings on all the contracts he supported Also Served as a consultant providing Program management for the TS/SCI Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) Counterintelligence foreign vetting program

Purdy group LLC
Director of Operations and Senior Program Manager Feb 2017 -Oct 2020

Served as the director of Operations and managed various contracts either as a Program Manager or the Company operations manager. Managed the PFPA contract and is responsible for identifying recruiting, hiring, and managing all personnel on this contract. Mr. Smith managed the DoS Bureaus of NEA and SCA linguist and cultural advisor contract, where linguist and cultural advisors support the US Embassy Senior Staff in Iraq. He was responsible for Excellent CPARs ratings on all his supported contracts. Mr. Smith provided oversight to personnel and operations on 13 government contracts that provide training, information technology, training, Facility support service Cyber, CI, Analysis, Security, program management services, linguist services and brings leadership and management experience to meet customer expectations for timely and quality deliverables. Based on his experience and expertise, he developed processes for management, recruiting, retention and training that deliver outstanding performance in each engagement. Mr. Smith met all contract deliverables, manages and keeps all costs within budget,

He maintained continuous communications with the Contracting Officer Representatives and Contracting Officers, providing quality control and quality assurance programs that prevent issues and maintain quality. Mr. Smith provided organizational Facility Security Officer support as an alternate FSO. Provided various corporate functions to include business development, quality control and quality assurance and manages corporate proposal writing and oversight. He proactively managed Purdy’s Business Development processes, bid process; analysis of opportunities and proposal writing. Mr. Smith was a single person managing, implementing and executing the entire business development and proposal process.

Advantage SCI, LLC July 2011 – Present
Director of Government Services and Senior Program Manager

Serve as the Director of Government Services and Program Manager on multiple TS/SCI government contracts. As a PM he managed the Department of Treasury Security Support, DHS Security Support, SSO Support 902nd INSCOM, Joint Staff SSO and theTSCM program and five CI contracts at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (the TSCM program, CI in Cyber, Insider Threat, CI Analysis, and Security Training and Education). Requested by multiple customers to provide direct support on several CI, Cyber and TSCM issues and projects. Successfully engaged and identified vulnerabilities of customer systems and procedures. Drafted Insider Threat Policy for government agency in response to Research Technology Protection analysis. Lead kickoff and starting efforts for deployment, management and recruiting Iraq and Afghanistan SME and linguist contract support. In addition, drafted and supervised plans for Advantage SCI SCIF in Alexandria, VA Duties as PM included: responsible for coordinating with the contracting officer, contracting officer technical representative and the Advantage SCI support staff to meet customer mission requirements, resolved all personnel issues, successfully management budget, train and mentor onsite leads and other project managers. Mr. Smith provided organizational Facility Security Officer support as an alternate FSO. Mr Smith was key to numerous contract wins and provided various corporate functions to include business development, quality control and quality assurance and manages corporate proposal writing and oversight. He proactively supported Advantages Business Development processes, bid process; analysis of opportunities and proposal writing.