2009 - DP Associates Wins Ares I Upper Stage MSFC Contract
2008 - DP Associates awarded a contract on the GSA Professional Engineering Services schedule.
2000 - DP Associates selected to participate in GSA's Millennia Lite Program.
2000 - Alabama Governor Don Siegelman appoints Russell G. Brown to the Space Science Exhibit Commission which provides oversight to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center located in Huntsville, AL.
2000 - Russell G. Brown serves as Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County, AL.
1999 - Oakwood College awarded Russell G. Brown its 1999 Distinguished Community Service Award.
1999 - DP Associates was ranked 88th by Business Alabama in their listing of the Top 100 Alabama High Technology Companies for the year.
1998 - General Services Administration selected DP Associates as an Information Technology Federal Supply Schedule Contractor.
1998 - The company was selected to provide support to a state-of-the art computer data center for the U.S. Strategic Missile Defense Command - Missile Defense Data Center, located in Cummings Research Park, Huntsville, AL.
1995 - DPA received the GSA Information Technology Solutions' Partnership Award.
1994 - DP Associates received the U.S. Small Business Administration's Award of Excellence for the second time in four years.
1992 - The corporation was awarded Rockwell International's Exceptional Company Performance Award for supporting the NASA Space Shuttle payload/integration programs. DPA joined such distinguished companies as Corning, IBM, Honeywell, and Michelin as award recipients demonstrating the highest level of product quality, technical & cost performance, and adhering to challenging schedules.
1991 - DPA rewins GSA Western Zone Facilities Management Contract. (1991-1995)
1991 - Russell G. Brown was selected as the State of Alabama Minority Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
1990 - The company was honored with the U.S. Small Business Administration's Award of Excellence.
1989 - DP Associates was selected as the Small Business of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County, AL.
1987 - DP Associates was awarded a $45 million Computer Facilities Management contract for General Service Administration's Western Zone. The contract was competitively bid and required support services to be provided to any requesting government agency in fifteen states. The company managed over 500 employees in multiple state locations providing services from software design to facilities security. DP Associates was the only small business to win this GSA contract twice consecutively.
1986 - Russell G. Brown was the first recipient of the University of Alabama in Huntsville Business Fellow Award.
1986 - The Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County, AL selected Russell G. Brown as Small Business Executive of the Year
1985 - Russell G. Brown assumed the position of President and CEO of DP Associates.
1984 - DP Associates began an eight year effort on the NASA Spacelab Integration Project providing configuration management, computer operations, and data entry services.
1980 - The U.S. Army Toxic and Hazardous Materials Agency awarded DP Associates a Data Processing and Information Services Support contract at the U.S. Army Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Denver, CO. DP Associates has provided support to Rocky Mountain Arsenal for over 19 years managing vital data crucial to the objective of the Program Management Rocky Mountain Arsenal environmental clean-up mission.
1980 - DP Associates was hired to provide data system operation support to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration/National Data Buoy Center at Stennis Space Center, MS. Providing over twenty years of support, the company's continuous longevity on the contract has meant consistent reliability of real-time accessibility to world-wide weather data for use by the National Weather Service and other agencies.
1978 - DP Associates, serving as contractor and subcontractor, began a 22 year support effort on the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center Shuttle Project providing cost modeling, professional analysis, software development and configuration management. The company was responsible for the original cost modeling for the Shuttle Project.
1978 - Recognized as a SBA 8(a) success story, DP Associates graduates from the program.
1970 - The corporation was awarded a General Services Administration contract to provide technical support to the Federal Data Processing Center in Huntsville, AL. At the time, one of the largest contracts ever awarded by the Federal Government under the Small Business Act.
1970 - DP Associates entered the U.S. Small Business Administration's 8(a) program.
1970 - The company was incorporated in Huntsville, AL --one of the first Information Technology Services firms in the southeast. Founders included Russell G. Brown, Nathaniel Griffin, Triana Industrial Development Company and CSC.
