What’s New at BrightFields, Inc.

Lee dePersia, a Program Manager at BrightFields, was deployed to Afghanistan and arrived there on June 7, 2008. Lee, a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air National Guard, will be serving with the Army on this tour of duty. He will be serving as a Project Manager/engineer on hospital and clinic construction projects for the Afghan Security Forces and their dependents. Lee is currently working on replacing the local hospital in Qalat as well as working on numerous other renovation projects.

BrightFields, through Lee, is currently holding a clothing drive to send to Afghanistan’s needy. BrightFields is collecting winter clothes, blankets, shoes and especially children’s shoes to donate to the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) that operates in Zabul Province. Zabul Province is probably the poorest of all the Provinces in Afghanistan and is an area of known Taliban activity. It is also an area where Taliban enter Afghanistan from Pakistan. The US and Coalition forces are fighting the public relations battle in the area and the PRT does a lot of work attempting to better the lives of the local Afghans. If you would like to contribute, call BrightFields at 302-656-9600 for more information.

Here’s a recent update from Lee:

And some recent photos to go along with the update:

fortress

MRAP

hospital

scaffolding

heater

Lee looking sharp

Marian Young and Mark Lannan, co-owners of BrightFields, were honored as the Small Business Administration’s 2008 Delaware Small Business Persons of the Year for the State of Delaware. The award is based on the company’s staying power, growth in employment and sales, financial performance, innovative services, response to adversity and contributions to the community.

Each year SBA’s 68 district offices across the country recognize their outstanding state small business owners and champions at local Small Business Week events. The winners then compete with other state winners in their respective SBA regions to determine the 10 regional award winners who then compete for the national award in their respective categories. The 50 state small business persons of the year competed for the title of National Small Business Person of the Year at SBA’s National Small Business Week activities in Washington on April 21-23.

The Delaware Department of Transportation has featured BrightFields in its quarterly Disadvantaged Business Enterprise newsletter Focus on DBE. BrightFields is honored for this recognition! More information on DelDOT’s DBE certification program can be found on their Disadvantage Business Enterprise Program website.

BrightFields is pleased to present our new website.  A team of people from BrightFields worked with McClure Web Design of Camden, Delaware and hostmysite.com to develop the new site.  Some of the new features of the blog include a search feature, and this news blog.  Be sure to check back often for news updates.  Thanks for stopping by!