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ECS: 30 YEARS OF INNOVATION

“From its founding in April 1993 as an energy services subcontractor to becoming an industry leader in advanced technology, science, and digital transformation solutions, ECS has lived by one watchword: innovation.”

JOHN

HENEGHAN

President, ECS

As we’ve grown to partner with some of the world’s leading agencies in both the public and private sectors, our experts have continuously innovated powerful new solutions for a diverse array of complex challenges. From protecting some of our nation’s most-targeted networks to serving as the top provider of artificial intelligence solutions to the Department of Defense (DoD), our global workforce of 4,000 employees never rests until the mission is complete.

1993-2000

FROM SCRAPPY
BEGINNINGS TO
A FATEFUL PIVOT

ECS (originally Energy Conservation Specialists) was founded as an energy services company in Tampa, Florida in 1993, building a reputation for quality, cost-effective work for a diverse array of clients. While this iteration of the company went dormant in the late-90s, it was purchased, revived, and reoriented towards software engineering in 2001 by Roy Kapani, a government contracting executive.

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2001-2009

LAYING THE
GROUNDWORK
FOR SUCCESS

ECS scored its first major contract win in 2001: a five-year, $25M software development contract to build, maintain, and enhance the software systems delivering Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance. The systems built and operated by ECS delivered the largest mortgage insurance program in the world, responsible for insuring millions of properties worth a cumulative $1.3T.

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2010

ECS SPREADS
ITS WINGS

ECS secured what would prove to be a transformational contract win in 2010 with the award of a five-year, $250M contract from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office (PEO) supporting the Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (STRI) mission.

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2011-2017

A METEORIC RISE
AND A CULTURE
OF SHARING

Over the subsequent years, ECS leaned into its growing IT and cybersecurity bonafides to continue a strong cadence of business capture, including notable wins with the United States Postal Service National Customer Support Center (USPS NCSC) and the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) modernization initiative for the Department of Justice (DoJ).

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2018

ACQUIRES ECS

ECS hit another major turning point in 2018 when the company was acquired by ASGN, Inc., one of the foremost providers of IT and professional services in the technology, digital, engineering, life sciences, and government sectors.

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2019-2021

JOINING THE
BILLION-DOLLAR
CLUB

Amidst the turbulence of the pandemic years, the company’s commitment to innovation continued to pay dividends, such as its distributed workforce that allowed its contract work to continue uninterrupted despite the disruption.

Read More

2022-PRESENT

TAKING
THE LEAD
IN INDUSTRY
INNOVATION

Rather than slowing the pace as the company’s achievements piled up, ECS has stepped on the gas in the last couple of years. ECS has taken on the task of migrating the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) software, business workflows, and forms to Microsoft SharePoint Online. The company has leveraged

Read More

As we’ve grown to partner with some of the world’s leading agencies in both the public and private sectors, our experts have continuously innovated powerful new solutions for a diverse array of complex challenges. From protecting some of our nation’s most-targeted networks to serving as the top provider of artificial intelligence solutions to the Department of Defense (DoD), our global workforce of 3,800+ employees never rests until the mission is complete.

1993-2000

FROM SCRAPPY
BEGINNINGS TO
A FATEFUL PIVOT

ECS (originally Energy Conservation Specialists) was founded as an energy services company in 1993, forming strategic partnerships throughout the National Capital Region and building a reputation for quality, cost-effective work. While this iteration of the company went dormant in the late-90s, it was

Read More

2001-2009

LAYING THE
GROUNDWORK
FOR SUCCESS

ECS scored its first major contract win in 2001: a five-year, $25M software development contract to build, maintain, and enhance the software systems delivering Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance. The systems built and operated by ECS delivered the largest mortgage insurance program in

Read More

2010

ECS SPREADS
ITS WINGS

ECS secured what would prove to be a transformational contract win in 2010 with the award of a five-year, $250M contract from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office (PEO) supporting the Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (STRI) mission.

Read More

2011-2017

A METEORIC RISE
AND A CULTURE
OF SHARING

Over the subsequent years, ECS leaned into its growing IT and cybersecurity bonafides to continue a strong cadence of business capture, including notable wins with the United States Postal Service National Customer Support Center (USPS NCSC) and the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)

Read More

2018

ACQUIRES

ECS hit another major turning point in 2018 when the company was acquired by ASGN, Inc., one of the foremost providers of IT and professional services in the technology, digital, engineering, life sciences, and government sectors.

Read More

2019-2021

JOINING THE
BILLION-DOLLAR
CLUB

Amidst the turbulence of the pandemic years, the company’s commitment to innovation continued to pay dividends, such as its distributed workforce that allowed its contract work to continue uninterrupted despite the disruption.

Read More

2022-PRESENT

TAKING
THE LEAD
IN INDUSTRY
INNOVATION

Rather than slowing the pace as the company’s achievements piled up, ECS has stepped on the gas in the last couple of years. ECS has taken on the task of migrating the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) software, business workflows, and forms to Microsoft SharePoint Online. The company has leveraged

Read More

As ECS celebrates 30 years and our industry moves into a future that is changing faster by the day, two things remain certain: The challenges facing our customers will continue to evolve and require dynamic IT-enabled solutions, and ECS will never stop innovating new ways to solve those challenges and advance those missions.

 

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ECS (originally Energy Conservation Specialists) was founded as an energy services company in Tampa, Florida in 1993, building a reputation for quality, cost-effective work for a diverse array of clients. While this iteration of the company went dormant in the late-90s, it was purchased, revived, and reoriented towards software engineering in 2001 by Roy Kapani, a government contracting executive.

ECS changed its name to Electronic Consulting Services and moved from its headquarters at 1801 Reston Parkway to its current home on Prosperity Avenue in Fairfax, Virginia. Armed with a new logo, the feel of a new start-up, and a recently won slot on the Government Services Administration (GSA) Schedule program, the company went to work winning new business.

ECS scored its first major contract win in 2001: a five-year, $25M software development contract to build, maintain, and enhance the software systems delivering Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance. The systems built and operated by ECS delivered the largest mortgage insurance program in the world, responsible for insuring millions of properties worth a cumulative $1.3T. The systems interfaced with major banks and Wall Street institutions and generated a surplus of revenue, requiring zero taxpayer funding.

ECS continued to build its capabilities and qualifications while winning additional financial services contracts ranging from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

The ‘00s were a crucial decade for ECS. The company spent those years laying intensive groundwork for long-term success. It established credibility as a provider of quality systems that could deliver results on-time, began making significant investments in staff and infrastructure, and built the expertise and breadth of talent needed to take on increasingly mission-critical work. As a final validation of the company’s performance during this period, ECS won 100% of its recompete contracts during the ‘00s.

ECS secured what would prove to be a transformational contract win in 2010 with the award of a five-year, $250M contract from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office (PEO) supporting the Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (STRI) mission.

This award had numerous important effects. It grew the company nearly 50% essentially overnight, launching ECS forever out of the “small business” category. It also created a new baseline of consistent annual revenue that allowed the company to begin investing more heavily in its people and solutions. It established ECS in the defense contracting space, which would become a cornerstone of the company’s business. Finally, it led to the opening of additional office space in Orlando.

Just like that, the stage was set for exponential growth — but few could have predicted just how meteoric that ascent would be.

Over the subsequent years, ECS leaned into its growing IT and cybersecurity bonafides to continue a strong cadence of business capture, including notable wins with the United States Postal Service National Customer Support Center (USPS NCSC) and the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) modernization initiative for the Department of Justice (DoJ). From 2011 to 2017, the company’s annual revenue from defense contracts alone nearly tripled.

During this period, ECS also kicked off a series of strategic acquisitions to expand the company's size and solution expertise into new markets, such as marine and engineering services. The acquisition of InfoReliance, a leading provider of cybersecurity, cloud computing, and software engineering solutions and managed services, created an opening to partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft – critical partnerships that to this day have made ECS’ cloud offerings much more robust. By 2017, the company had grown to a size of more than 2,400 employees.

The company’s innovative moves continued apace, including developing flight termination and command transmitter systems for range safety and modernizing security for roughly 1.4 million endpoints across the U.S. Army’s global infrastructure with the Army Endpoint Security Solution (AESS).

Finally, it was during this time that ECS increased its investment in its people and was recognized as an employer of choice in the government IT industry. From renting out Smithsonian museums on the Washington, D.C. National Mall for legendary galas to various profit-sharing initiatives, the company enjoyed exceptionally low turnover and was named a Washington Post “Top Workplace” for several consecutive years.

ECS hit another major turning point in 2018 when the company was acquired by ASGN, Inc., one of the foremost providers of IT and professional services in the technology, digital, engineering, life sciences, and government sectors.

With the acquisition, ECS transitioned from one of the largest privately held government services contractors to a strategic segment of a rising, publicly traded company. As a result, the company gained access to a whole new scale of capabilities, personnel, and competitive edge to compete for and win the very largest opportunities in the federal market.

Amidst the turbulence of the pandemic years, the company’s commitment to innovation continued to pay dividends, such as its distributed workforce that allowed its contract work to continue uninterrupted despite the disruption.

Among ECS’ solution and service offerings, the company continued to build its portfolio with next-gen cloud for zero trust architecture, intelligence gathering and processing tools like Argos PAI, and smarter and more effective cybersecurity capabilities such as Pathfinder and ARC Threat Intelligence. The company also began running the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Dashboard Ecosystem, delivering cyber situational awareness data to federal agencies and summarizing risk exposure across the government for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

In 2021, ECS celebrated a major milestone as the company joined the “Billion-Dollar Club” by exceeding $1B in annual revenue for the first time.

Rather than slowing the pace as the company’s achievements piled up, ECS has stepped on the gas in the last couple of years. ECS has taken on the task of migrating the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) software, business workflows, and forms to Microsoft SharePoint Online. The company has leveraged Agile software development to deliver a Legacy Data Consolidation Solution (LDCS) for the Defense Health Agency (DHA), digitally transforming and modernizing healthcare records systems. And, the company provides key support in several high-priority U.S. foreign policy areas, from solving mission partner collaboration in Ukraine to sustaining and enhancing the USTRANSCOM Global Air Transportation Execution System (GATES), which manages all air and sea cargo and passenger movements for DoD missions.

In 2022, ECS became the largest provider of artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions to the DoD, representing the company’s dominance on the cutting edge of innovation as well as a fitting exclamation point on 30 years of progress. At the same time, the company’s core identity as a cybersecurity and IT solution leader was reinforced with the recompete win of the continuously innovative AESS contract and the acquisition of Iron Vine Security, a leading cybersecurity company.

ECS (originally Energy Conservation Specialists) was founded as an energy services company in Tampa, Florida in 1993, building a reputation for quality, cost-effective work for a diverse array of clients. While this iteration of the company went dormant in the late-90s, it was purchased, revived, and reoriented towards software engineering in 2001 by Roy Kapani, a government contracting executive.

ECS changed its name to Electronic Consulting Services and moved from its headquarters at 1801 Reston Parkway to its current home on Prosperity Avenue in Fairfax, Virginia. Armed with a new logo, the feel of a new start-up, and a recently won slot on the Government Services Administration (GSA) Schedule program, the company went to work winning new business.

ECS scored its first major contract win in 2001: a five-year, $25M software development contract to build, maintain, and enhance the software systems delivering Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance. The systems built and operated by ECS delivered the largest mortgage insurance program in the world, responsible for insuring millions of properties worth a cumulative $1.3T. The systems interfaced with major banks and Wall Street institutions and generated a surplus of revenue, requiring zero taxpayer funding.

ECS continued to build its capabilities and qualifications while winning additional financial services contracts ranging from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

The ‘00s were a crucial decade for ECS. The company spent those years laying intensive groundwork for long-term success. It established credibility as a provider of quality systems that could deliver results on-time, began making significant investments in staff and infrastructure, and built the expertise and breadth of talent needed to take on increasingly mission-critical work. As a final validation of the company’s performance during this period, ECS won 100% of its recompete contracts during the ‘00s.

ECS secured what would prove to be a transformational contract win in 2010 with the award of a five-year, $250M contract from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office (PEO) supporting the Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (STRI) mission.

This award had numerous important effects. It grew the company nearly 50% essentially overnight, launching ECS forever out of the “small business” category. It also created a new baseline of consistent annual revenue that allowed the company to begin investing more heavily in its people and solutions. It established ECS in the defense contracting space, which would become a cornerstone of the company’s business. Finally, it led to the opening of additional office space in Orlando.

Just like that, the stage was set for exponential growth — but few could have predicted just how meteoric that ascent would be.

Over the subsequent years, ECS leaned into its growing IT and cybersecurity bonafides to continue a strong cadence of business capture, including notable wins with the United States Postal Service National Customer Support Center (USPS NCSC) and the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) modernization initiative for the Department of Justice (DoJ). From 2011 to 2017, the company’s annual revenue from defense contracts alone nearly tripled.

During this period, ECS also kicked off a series of strategic acquisitions to expand the company's size and solution expertise into new markets, such as marine and engineering services. The acquisition of InfoReliance, a leading provider of cybersecurity, cloud computing, and software engineering solutions and managed services, created an opening to partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft – critical partnerships that to this day have made ECS’ cloud offerings much more robust. By 2017, the company had grown to a size of more than 2,400 employees.

The company’s innovative moves continued apace, including developing flight termination and command transmitter systems for range safety and modernizing security for roughly 1.4 million endpoints across the U.S. Army’s global infrastructure with the Army Endpoint Security Solution (AESS).

Finally, it was during this time that ECS increased its investment in its people and was recognized as an employer of choice in the government IT industry. From renting out Smithsonian museums on the Washington, D.C. National Mall for legendary galas to various profit-sharing initiatives, the company enjoyed exceptionally low turnover and was named a Washington Post “Top Workplace” for several consecutive years.

ECS hit another major turning point in 2018 when the company was acquired by ASGN, Inc., one of the foremost providers of IT and professional services in the technology, digital, engineering, life sciences, and government sectors.

With the acquisition, ECS transitioned from one of the largest privately held government services contractors to a strategic segment of a rising, publicly traded company. As a result, the company gained access to a whole new scale of capabilities, personnel, and competitive edge to compete for and win the very largest opportunities in the federal market.

Amidst the turbulence of the pandemic years, the company’s commitment to innovation continued to pay dividends, such as its distributed workforce that allowed its contract work to continue uninterrupted despite the disruption.

Among ECS’ solution and service offerings, the company continued to build its portfolio with next-gen cloud for zero trust architecture, intelligence gathering and processing tools like Argos PAI, and smarter and more effective cybersecurity capabilities such as Pathfinder and ARC Threat Intelligence. The company also began running the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Dashboard Ecosystem, delivering cyber situational awareness data to federal agencies and summarizing risk exposure across the government for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

In 2021, ECS celebrated a major milestone as the company joined the “Billion-Dollar Club” by exceeding $1B in annual revenue for the first time.

Rather than slowing the pace as the company’s achievements piled up, ECS has stepped on the gas in the last couple of years. ECS has taken on the task of migrating the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) software, business workflows, and forms to Microsoft SharePoint Online. The company has leveraged Agile software development to deliver a Legacy Data Consolidation Solution (LDCS) for the Defense Health Agency (DHA), digitally transforming and modernizing healthcare records systems. And, the company provides key support in several high-priority U.S. foreign policy areas, from solving mission partner collaboration in Ukraine to sustaining and enhancing the USTRANSCOM Global Air Transportation Execution System (GATES), which manages all air and sea cargo and passenger movements for DoD missions.

In 2022, ECS became the largest provider of artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions to the DoD, representing the company’s dominance on the cutting edge of innovation as well as a fitting exclamation point on 30 years of progress. At the same time, the company’s core identity as a cybersecurity and IT solution leader was reinforced with the recompete win of the continuously innovative AESS contract and the acquisition of Iron Vine Security, a leading cybersecurity company.