Tyonek Native Corporation--Defined by Quality, Dedicated People: CEO Leo Barlow helps lead the company to 'unprecedented, rapid growth'.

Last year was one of outstanding growth for Tyonek Native Corporation (TNC), which saw its revenue increase 85 percent from 2017, reporting 2018 revenue of more than $144 million. This boosted TNC up twelve spots in our Top 49ers ranks, landing them at number 25. "We've had pretty unprecedented, rapid growth," says CEO Leo Barlow. "We've been fortunate and successfully bid a number of contracts with the US government, and in some cases we're a preferred provider for a number of our customers."

Barlow stepped into his role as CEO in 2016, and at the same time a new management team took the reins at TNC. "Frankly speaking, the company had strayed from its core business of government defense contracting into more commercial activity. So we brought it back together and refocused our strategies on what we were successful at, reaffirming our relationships with the US government and defense contracting personnel," Barlow says.

Core Business

Over those three years, the company has grown from employing approximately 300 people to now providing jobs for about 1,200 employees. TNC has operations in fifteen states, including three TNC-owned facilities in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, of which the latter two are manufacturing facilities, and TNC subsidiaries operate three of the four naval fleet warfare readiness centers in the United States.

The TNC manufacturing group of subsidiaries has more than 150 active programs that support thirty different customers and brings in more than $75 million in annual revenue, with 30 percent of its contracts spanning multiple years. The group has more than $250 million in revenue backlog, providing avionics and aircraft electrical assemblies and kits, engineering design, US Army and US Air Force ground equipment, and complex systems integration.

The corporation's services group supports more than twenty clients, bringing in $88 million in annual revenue. The majority (90 percent) of the group's projects are multi-year contracts performing aircraft maintenance and modification, engineering design and kitting, aircraft hangar work and foreign military support, and cyber operations and training.

In May, Tyonek Worldwide Services secured an IDIQ, five-year contract to support the Army Contracting Command-Redstone Arsenal Logistics Support Facility Management Activity, with a total potential value of up to $2.5 billion. According to the corporation, "[Tyonek Worldwide Services] will provide design, complex...

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