• Company Number :   F16463770

• Status :   Forfeited

• Incorporation Date :   8 April 2015 (about 7 years ago [ As of June 28 2022 ] )

• Company Type :   FOREIGN CORPORATION

• Jurisdiction :   Maryland (US)

• Branch :   Branch of DYNAMAC CORPORATION (Delaware (US))

• Registered Address :   STE 300, 10301 DEMOCRACY LN  /   FAIRFAX , VA  /   22030  /   United States  

Technical Writer/Editor

DynAMac Corporation (Formerly ENVIRO Control) - Rockville, MD

1981 – 1983  (2 years)

Project Manager and Lead writer/Editor for Training Portion of Proposal to U.S. Navy. (DOD Secret Clearance) 

Task was (1) to develop software (Univac Mainframe) for airplane mechanics to track parts and work needed on NATO airplanes to facilitate movement between speciality hangers and eliminate lost time when parts were back ordered and (2) develop training for these new users plus a Train-the-Trainer version of the course. 

Project Manager, Development of New User Training and Train-the-Trainer for airplane mechanics to track maintenance and repair on NATO aircraft.

Brought contract "in" under budget and ahead of schedule.

Contract earned company so much it became ineligible to bid on another U.S. Government Small Business Set Aside contract. 

Left during resultant RIF and accepted position with ILS firm planning to bid on ongoing work.

Largely because of President Reagan's six-year military buildup, a mini-defense industry is thriving along the beltway that circles Washington like a concrete moat.

The companies involved call themselves a ''professional and technical services industry.'' Their admirers refer to them as ''think tanks.'' But to a few people, they are ''beltway bandits,'' because they get jobs that some think the Government, notably the Pentagon, should do itself.

Whatever the label, almost 100 companies here are producing ideas, research leading to policy decisions, solutions to management, logistics or personnel problems, ways to adapt high technology to weapons, and analyses of strategy in national security and arms control.

They Don't Make Anything

Few actually make things. Rather, they have ridden in on a tidal wave of computer science and information systems, and that is reflected in the company names sprinkled around the capital, in northern Virginia and out into the Maryland suburbs.

Among the companies that won Pentagon contracts worth more than $50 million last year are Science Applications International, the Computer Sciences Corporation and the System Development Corporation. Companies with contracts worth $1 million to $5 million include Electromagnetic Technology, the Space Applications Corporation, Scope Inc. and the Dynamac Corporation.

Some of these companies compete with the research divisions of the giant military contractors like General Dynamics and General Electric, But executives of the professional services industry say their companies are far more flexible than those in the conventional industry, where research tends to focus on supporting the hardware the Pentagon buys.

60% of Research Jobbed Out

Criticism of this new situation appears to be limited to muttering. ''I don't think you're going to find a broad-based indictment,'' said a Congressional staff aide, ''mainly because the Government helped to create the industry.''

Even so, the Defense Department considers the issue politically sensitive, and no official was willing to talk about why the Pentagon spends so much for outside advice. A spokesman said the issue was too diffuse for any official to have an overview.

Of $33.6 billion the Defense Department spent for research and development last year, $19.8 billion, nearly 60 percent, went to companies outside the Pentagon. The Pentagon's research budget was double that of 1981, just before the Reagan Administration's buildup began, and the outside companies have more than doubled their revenues in that period.

Since 1982, for example, BDM International, one of the larger companies, has nearly tripled its revenues from Government and private contracts to $322 million last year. Earle C. Williams, BDM's chairman, said he expected that expansion to continue, because, even though military spending has leveled off, the Pentagon's research funds are expected to continue rising.

Executives in the industry contend that their firms have succeeded because they can do for the Government what the Government cannot do for itself, or they can at least do it more efficiently.

Cutting Down on Bureaucracy

Specifically, they say, they provide talented people with a less bureaucratic working environment. ''A scientist can't do real science over there,'' said Mr. Williams, nodding toward the Pentagon, ''because he's so tied up by bureaucrats.''

In addition, professional services companies say they pay better. Asked to compare BDM salaries with those in the Defense Department, however, Mr. Williams demurred, saying that was ''excruciatingly sensitive information.''

Perhaps this is the point that most bothers the critics. They argue that people gain experience in the Defense Department, then join BDM or another company to do the same work at much higher salaries. The taxpayer, they say, thus pays more for something the Pentagon could do.

But Mr. Williams contended that companies like his operate more economically than the Pentagon because they can move people from one project to another to keep them productive. In the Government, he said, skilled people would sit around waiting for the next assignment.

Among BDM's current projects are several connected with President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, the plan to develop a shield against nuclear missiles. Robert B. Buchanan, the company's senior executive for S.D.I., said one project was to design ''smart rocks'' that would destroy nuclear warheads in space by force of impact.

Bruce K. Brown, a retired Air Force lieutenant general, supervises research into mobile launchers for small intercontinental ballistic missiles and the deep underground basing of large missiles, plus analyses of ways for bombers and missiles to strike mobile missiles in the Soviet Union.

In the realm of conventional warfare, Philip A. Karber led a BDM team of 12 political scientists, regional specialists and military analysts assessing the prospective balance of military power should the United States and the Soviet Union agree to reduce medium-range nuclear forces. They concluded that the United States would be better off.

One of BDM's founders, Joseph V. Braddock, said he urged analysts to go to the field with operational commanders so ''they will get an appreciation of the guy who has to fight the tactical battle.'' BDM has designed and will run a highly technical center for training light infantry units at Fort Chaffee, Ark.

Entrepreneurial Element

Mr. Braddock joined two other scientists, Bernard J. Dunn and Daniel F. McDonald, in setting up BDM in 1961. But they wanted to be free from managing the business and hired Mr. Williams the next year to run things.

Since then, that atmosphere has pervaded the company. Mr. Williams, an electrical engineer by training, said, ''We provide a place for people who want to be entrepreneurial in spirit but don't want to run their own businesses.''

The entrepreneurial element comes in with what Mr. Williams calls ''individual marketing initiative,'' in which each of the 2,700 people on the professional and technical staff is charged with acquiring new projects. They must get out to sell their technical skills, he said, primarily to the Government.

People at BDM, Mr. Williams said, are competitors. ''We're using their competitive juices to drive people to build bigger empires,'' he said. ''They're not competing with the guy down the hall, they're out winning contracts from other companies.''

Plenty of Vice Presidents

Many contracts are small; BDM has about 800 projects, with an average revenue of $400,000. But the trend is toward larger, multiyear contracts, said Charles R. Wasaff, a senior vice president. Last year, 30 contracts brought in 58 percent of the company's revenue.

To promote ''the marketing mystique,'' Mr. Williams said, BDM has 75 vice presidents, like a bank or an insurance company. The titles are to help get them in a client's door. ''Some are real vice presidents,'' he said with a chuckle, ''and others are vice presidents of convenience.''

Those vice presidents are likely to be busy well into the future, because the professional services companies, whatever their merits, are now firmly entrenched in the nation's military establishment.

The evidence is plain around Tyson's Corner in northern Virginia, where office buildings with state-of-the-art security and computer capacities are under construction to house expanded headquarters for BDM and other professional services companies.

[Dr. Donald Malcolm MacArthur (born 1931)], 57, president of [Dynamac Corporation] of Rockville, Md. . died Nov. 27 at the  Austin Airport in Texas.

He and his wife were returning to their home in Bethesda after spending a family Thanksgiving at the L.B.J. Ranch. Mrs. MacArthur is a daughter of the late Tony Taylor, who died two years ago, former owner of The Old Mexico Shop in Santa Fe. She also is a niece of Mrs. Lyndon H. Johnson.

Mr. Mac.Arthur, who was  well known in Washington and Scotland,  was a scientist and businessman. In 1970 he founded the Dynamac Corp., which specialized in providing technical services in environmental and health sciences, engineering, and information management and computer systems. The company now has 12 offices and employs more than 500 people. 

Mr. MacArthur was bprn Jan. 7, 1931, in Detroit, Michigan, of Scottish parents who had emigrated from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides to escape hard times. In 1933 the family returned to the Isle of Lewis.

Mr. MacArthur was raised in the village of Carloway, at the age of 8, was enrolled in the Nicholson Institute in Stornoway where he received his primary and secondary education. He was a scholarship student at St. Andrew's University and was awarded a bachelor of science with honors in 1954. He received a doctorate from Edinburgh University in 1957. 

He returned to the United States in 1957 and joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut at Storrs. From 1958 to 1966, he was with Melpar Inc., where he developed the Life Science Laboratories and directed the Chemistry and Life Sciences Division. From 1966 to 1970 he was deputy director of research and engineering in the office of the secretary of defense. 

Mr. MacArthur was a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Chemical Society, the: American Association of the Advancement of Science and the National Association of Life Sciences and industries.

He sometimes referred to himself as a foreigner in his native land. Although born in the United States he was a Gaelic-speaking Hebridean Scot who maintained strong ties with this ancestral land. He visited Scotland frequently and was an active in the alumni association at St. Andrew's University. He was secretary of the St. Andrew's Society of Washington D.C..

Surviors include his wife, Diana MacArthur [see Diana Lee Taylor (born 1933)] of Betesda; two stepchildren,  Alexander Tschursin of Santa Fe and Elizabeth Tschursin of Bethesda;  his father, Donald John MacArthur of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland; two brothers, Angus MacArthur of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, and John MacArthur of Glasgow, Scotland; and two sisters, Catherine Stewart of Perth Australia, and Christine Ann MacLeod of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.

At the time of his death, Mr. MacArthur was involved in raising funds to build the Bethesda Nursing Home on the Isle of Lewis. 

The Clinton Administration announced its intention today to increase the nation's overall spending on science and technology research to a level equivalent to those of Japan and Germany.

At a news briefing, Vice President Al Gore presented a report, "Science in the National Interest," that outlines the Administration's commitment to expanding its support and making science and technology "a top priority" in future budgets.

Dr. John H. Gibbons, assistant to the President for science and technology, said the United States Government and industry together were spending 2.6 percent of the gross domestic product on nonmilitary science, and he said the goal was 3 percent, roughly the amount spent in Germany and Japan. But, he said, "we haven't translated that figure into specific programs for the future."

Shifting the Balance

Dr. Gibbons said today's report was more a way of making a commitment to protect science budgets in a period of budget cutting. All agencies must think of the future "only in terms of present dollars, not of increases," he said, adding, "If there is to be more money, it must come from other programs or from increased productivity."

Federal spending on research has increased a few percent a year in recent years, he said, "which is pretty good in times of a tight budget."

Dr. M. R. C. Greenwood, associate director for science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said that while no figures had yet been prepared "we do have a plan to increase support."

"Each agency will be asked to come up with proposals," Dr. Greenwood said.

The shift to civilian science from military science promised by President Clinton in the 1992 election campaign has already begun, she said. In 1992, 60 percent of research money went to the military and 40 percent to civilian work, and after the President's first budget, she said, "it's now more like 55 to 45 percent."

If the shift between those two budgets continues, about one-third of the goal of reaching a total national expenditure of 3 percent of domestic product will be reached.

The White House also announced the list of members of a new Committee of Advisers on Science.

The new members are:

• John A. Young, Hewlett-Packard Company.

• Norman R. Augustine, Martin Marietta Corporation.

• Francisco J. Ayala, University of California at Irvine.

• Murray Gell-Mann, California Institute of Technology.

• David A. Hamburg [see Dr. David Allen Hamburg (born 1925)], Carnegie Corporation of New York.

• John P. Holdren, University of California at Berkeley.

• Diana McArthur [see Diana Lee Taylor MacArthur (born 1933)], Dynamac Corporation.

• Shirley M. Malcom, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• Mario J. Molina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Peter H. Raven, Washington University in St. Louis.

• Sally K. Ride, University of California at San Diego.

• Judith Rodin, University of Pennsylvania.

• Charles A. Sanders, Glaxo Corporation.

• Phillip A. Sharp [see Dr. Phillip Allen Sharp (born 1944)], M.I.T.

• David E. Shaw, Shaw & Company.

• Charles M. Vest, M.I.T.

• Virginia V. Weldon, Monsanto Company.

• Lilian Shiao-yen Wu, I.B.M.

Mrs. MacArthur is the Chair, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-founder of Dynamac Corporation , a firm providing integrated environmental services: environmental health and sciences consulting, natural resources management, and hazardous waste engineering. She has 35 years of experience in public policy and program development, spanning industry, the Federal Government, nongovernmental organizations, and academia. Previously, she was President of a Dynamac subsidiary (merged in 1980) engaged in technology transfer, training and education, public outreach, and communications in areas of the environment, health, and safety.

Earlier in her career, Mrs. MacArthur was the manager of the prevention arm of a multimillion dollar national clearinghouse for health information and education, operated by General Electric under a Federal Government contract. In early days of the Peace Corps, she served as Director of its Office of Private and International Organizations. And she was Vice President and Director of the Washington office of the Thomas J. Deegan Company, a public relations firm in the InterPublic group.

Mrs. MacArthur is active in public affairs. Currently, she serves the Federal Government in two capacities. Appointed by President Clinton, she is a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PC AST). She is a member of the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Commerce. In the past, she was a member of the Citizens Advisory Board to the President's Council on Youth Opportunity.

In the realm of nongovernmental organizations, Mrs. MacArthur is on the Advisory Board to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she served on the Strengthening of America Commission and on the National Laboratories Steering Committee, a group that studied ways to enhance cooperation between the Department of Energy national laboratories and industry to commercialize technology critical to American economic growth and competitiveness. At present, she is a member of the CSIS Senior Policy Group on National Grand Challenges, a new project to identify the R&D priorities for the first quarter of the 21st century. Mrs. MacArthur is a Director of the Atlantic Council. She is also a member of the Advisory Council to the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment, and is an associate of the North American Institute, a think tank that deals with such issues as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the establishment of a North American Environmental Council. Since 1970, she has been a trustee of the Menninger Foundation.

In the academic arena, Mrs. MacArthur is a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute and serves on the Chancellor's Advisory Council of the University of Maryland System. In addition, she is a member of the Board of the University of Maryland  Foundation, Inc.

Mrs. MacArthur holds a B.A. in Economics from Vassar College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is the recipient of the 1993 KPMG Peat Marwick High Tech Entrepreneur Award, which honors individuals who have made significant contributions to the community and to the advancement of the high technology industry.

National library of Medicine, Office of Acquisitions Management,Building 38A, Room B1N17, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20894

Hazardous Substance Data Bank FIle Building Support - SOL N/A POC Velerie M Syed, Contract Specialist

It is the intent of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to negotiate on a sole source basis with the Dynamac Corporation under the authority of FAR 6.302. The Dynamac Corporation was awarded a five-year contract (N01-LM-7-3512) in APril 1997 to provide file building and enhancement services for the NLM's Hazardous Substance Data Bank (HSDB) file.  It was anticipated at the time of contract award that there would be 2 face-to-face meetings and one electronic review annually. In Order to meet increased useſ demand for HSDB information, NLM expects to increase the number of updated and peer reviewed HSDB records, Update and peer review of an additional forty-five (45) database records is anticipated. Ihe additional work can be accomplished by upgrading the current contract's previously scheduled 48th meeting of the Scientific Review Panel (SRP48) from an electronic review to a 3-day, face to-face meeting. This enhancement to the previously scheduled meeting will require (1) approximately 1,500 additional labor hours, (2) travel and per diem costs for 16 SRP members to attend the 3-day meeting in Alexandria Virginia, and (3) costs to cover rental of the meeting room for 3 days. Because this activity represents a modification to an already existing contract activity, the National library of Medicine intends to negotiate with the Dynamac Corporation on a sole source basis. The Dynamac Corporation is the best qualified company to perform this work because: 1) they have been conducting HSDB updates and review activities for over 15 years; 2) they are thoroughly familiar with the TOXNET file building system and the HSDB database conventions and procedures; and 3) they have on-site a complete collection of all HSDB sources. Because of the amount of detailed Information about database operations and the length of time required to develop capacities for satisfactory performance, introducing a new contractor at this point in time would add significant additional training time, government coordination, and therefore, cost to the Government. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all proposals received within forty-five days after the date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the National Library of Medicine. See  Numbered Note 22.**** (W-118 SN32.5367)