Who We Are

TWD was founded in 1986. Driven by its commitment to provide quality, cost effective support, TWD grew significantly throughout the 1990s. We added staff, expanded our services and served an increasing number of clients.

In 2000, TWD, established an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and three years later, the employees purchased majority interest in the company.

Company leadership is a recognized and proven executive management team:

Larry A. Besterman	Chief Executive Officer and President
Stephen W. Young	Chief Technology Officer and Vice President
James K. Nash	Chief Financial Officer
Michael T. Lee	Chief Marketing Officer
Ron Gibbs	Executive Director of Operations, Ethics Compliance Officer

TWD's primary business is organized in three operational support groups - Department of Defense, Federal Services and Homeland Security. This customer based organization allows us to better focus the talents and background of our people. Our Engineering Center is matrixed to support the technology and engineering requirements of all three operational support groups. The Headquarters staff provides Contracts, Human Resources, Accounting and Finance, Corporate IT and Security.

TWD's vision is to be a world class technology solutions and professional services provider who is industry recognized for delivering innovative, customer-focused solutions for the best value.

• TWD's mission is to analyze, develop, implement, manage, operate, and maintain voice, video, and data systems to enable customers to assimilate and use knowledge.
• We strive to exceed customer expectations by providing responsive, cost effective, reliable solutions and professional services either directly or with trusted partners.

• We support our customers with integrity and a willingness to put their needs above our own.
• Our employees are our most important resource in providing the highest quality, most responsive and best value support to our customers.
• We treat our business partners as we hope to be treated by them.
• TWD empowers its employees to develop a business relationship with their customer(s) and determine, in a mutually beneficial way, how best to get the job done.
• TWD treats all its employees as professionals. We trust our employees to be ethical in their dealing with the company and its customers. We set expectations for performance and focus our attention on effective and reliable results employing efficient work processes.
• TWD creates harmonious relationships with its external stakeholders including non-employee shareholders and governmental authorities by responding to their requests for information relative to our business, and supporting legitimate guidance and direction on changes to business practice to conform to law and regulation.
• TWD endeavors to be a good corporate citizen in the communities in which we live and work by participating in community programs and giving our time and support to selective charitable organizations.

Contract Vehicles:

GSA IT
GSA Mobis
Naval Sea Systems Command's Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), SEAPORT Enhanced
Department of Homeland Security EAGLE, FC 2, Tier 2
Department of State HITSS under trustedBASE

Organizational Affiliations:

Professional Services Council
Armed Force Communications Electronics Association
American Council for Technology/Industry Advisory Council
Coalition for Government Procurement
International Communications Industries Association
Microsoft Certified Partner