Montana manufacturer of custom safety work platforms, Spika, nominated for the NASA / Marshall Space Flight Center subcontractor award of excellence.

Published on
September 17, 2024

Lewistown, Montana – Spika Design &Manufacturing, Inc. has announced that it has been recognized with a nomination for an excellence award by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).  

On Thursday, September 19, 2024, MSFC will host the 18th Annual MSFC Industry and Advocate Award Ceremony in conjunction with the 38th Marshall Small Business Alliance Meeting at the Davidson Center in Huntsville, AL to honor this year’s small and large business prime contractors, and small business subcontractors who were nominated for “of the Year” award consideration.  Spika Design & Manufacturing has been nominated for a subcontractor excellence award.

“Spika has had a nearly two-decades long relationship with NASA’s various missions. We are humbled and delighted to be nominated for the prestigious MSFC subcontractor excellence award this year,” said Katie Spika, CEO of Spika. “This recognition validates the culture of excellence our team internalizes and manifests each day in the work platforms we custom-design and manufacture – be it for the James Webb Space Telescope or for the Artemis missions of NASA inspiring the next generation of explorers – the Artemis Generation.”

Tom Spika, founder of Spika Design& Manufacturing, and Bekhi Spika, VP and Chief Revenue Officer will attend the Award Ceremony to be held in conjunction with the 38th Marshall Small Business Alliance Meeting at the Davidson Center in Huntsville, AL where both prime and subcontractor excellence awards will be presented, and the winner of each category will be announced.

About NASA / MSFC: Founded July 1, 1960, in Huntsville, Alabama, Marshall is one of NASA’s largest field centers, with a total workforce of nearly 7,000 employees and an annual budget of approximately $5 billion. At MSFC, NASA and its government and commercial partners have solved spaceflight’s most complex, technical problems for nearly six decades, dating back to the groundbreaking Apollo moon missions of the1960s and ’70s.

About Spika Design & Manufacturing, Inc.: Spika creates elegantly engineered custom access solutions for innovators who are challenging the boundaries of their industries. Based in Lewistown, Montana, Spika serves global brands in industries such as aerospace, defense, mass transit, heavy manufacturing, and cloud computing infrastructure. Spika is a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) that is Buy American Act (BAA) compliant, conducting all its design and manufacturing activities within an aerospace quality management system certified under AS9100D with ISO 9001:2015 at its facility in Montana, USA. Learn more at SpikaMfg.com.

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