GEM has garnered the following major small business awards from Federal, State and Local Agencies:


• Fifty Influential Minorities in Business Minority Business & Professional Network July 21, 2005

• SBA Administrator's National Award of Excellence May 15, 2005

• "Finalist 1997" SBA National Minority Small Business Person of the Year October 1997

• SBA National Minority Small Business of the Year 2002

• DOE Small Business "Contractor of the Year" April 2000 and 2002
US Department of Energy, presented by the Secretary of Energy, DOE Small Business Conference

• "Woman-Owned Business of the Year" March 1997
DOE/Lockheed Martin Energy Systems

• "Mentor/Protégé Program Award" June 1998 and July 1996
DOE/DynMcDermott Petroleum Operations

• "25 Fastest Growing Small Businesses & Streamlining Operations of Emerging Small Businesses" April 1996 and May 1997 Hispanic Business

• Selected Panelist/Speaker at the White House Conference on Women-Owned Businesses July 1995