More Than Just a Name: The Mission and History Behind Us

Years later, after studying engineering as an undergraduate, Gautam sold his motorbike and moved to Newark, New Jersey with $186 in his pocket. He secured a full assistantship for graduate school at New Jersey Institute of Technology and began the next chapter of study.

Combining engineering and entrepreneurship, Gautam graduated with a master’s degree in environmental engineering. He took a sabbatical in 2007 to return to India, inspired by an idea to address the lack of electricity in remote communities. Gautam took a locally sourced plant, the jatropa, and started work to create a self-sustainable and local source of alternative energy. Jatropa is grown throughout India as a fence to keep out cattle. Gautam created a biofuel system and secured $10 million in funding but fell short of meeting the next round of fundraising and had to abandon his business. However, the project and his mission to create a renewable energy source did not fail. Local engineers created an energy plant from recycled materials and together with grants from the Indian government, the facility opened a few years later. To this day, the energy plant still serves the community by providing electricity and using the jatropa plant that Gautam envisioned and harnessed.

Gautam returned to the US to attend the University of Virginia Darden School of Business where he received his MBA. That relationship and commitment to education and continuous improvement is a core value of Gautam’s, and one that he also extends to the entire organization. Alpha Omega forged a partnership with UVA as well as other technical and university programs to engage with young talent and build onramps for the government contracting community, preparing, and ensuring a future workforce.

With 22 years in government contracting, Gautam has a proven history of driving businesses to expand their presence and exceed growth and profit objectives. Prior to Alpha Omega, he served as Chief Operating Officer of C3 Systems, leading the company from $0 to $16 million per year revenue and from 1 to 110 employees in four years. As Vice President of Operations, Business Development and Capture Strategy for QSSI, Gautam steered the firm through three acquisitions and increased his division’s revenue by over 300% in eight years.

Gautam founded Alpha Omega in 2016, leveraging a lifetime of entrepreneurship, education, and passion for service to our nation. Alpha Omega has quickly gained recognition as a top supplier of Agile DevSecOps, cloud engineering, and cybersecurity solutions for federal customers. Headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, Alpha Omega’s mission to ensure our nation’s continued global leadership serves as our constant compass, shaping our daily endeavors. We are deeply immersed in the Department of Homeland Security, USDA, NOAA, and the Department of State, among others. We align our capabilities and domain expertise in foreign affairs, national security, and climate science with our understanding of each agency’s mission to deliver trusted strategic counsel and carefully tailored solutions.

From the earliest days, Alpha Omega has recognized the importance of mastering delivery processes so that we can produce transformative outcomes within the Federal market. Our commitment to service excellence and continuous process improvement is evidenced by our globally recognized Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level-5 (ML-5) for Development and Services and ISO/IEC registrations for 20000-1:2018, 27001:2013, and 9001:2015. 

Focusing on winning work, delighting customers, and growing the business, Alpha Omega grew more than 40% year over year, and more than doubling its headcount several times. A six-time member of the national Inc. 5000 list, Alpha Omega has demonstrated significant growth year over year, which supports the local Washington, DC community and various contract locations across the country. Equally important is Alpha Omega’s focus on customer satisfaction and relationships. Our powerful staffing experts and formulas and a passion for delivering and out-performing explain Alpha Omega’s 83% recompete win rate. In addition, Alpha Omega achieved a 93.8% overall client satisfaction rate in 2022, alongside a 90.5% recompete win rate.

Alpha Omega leveraged a merger to acquire important skills and services. In 2020, we acquired the Confiance Group, a Robotic Process Automation firm in Reston, Virginia, and later established our Cybersecurity capabilities through strategic hires. Partnerships also facilitate value to our customers and increase our capabilities. With more public sector clients seeking cloud-based solutions, Alpha Omega identified a critical skills gap that needed to be addressed to attract new talent with security clearances and achieve more AWS Certification(s) to meet contract requirements. Collaborating with Amazon Public Sector as an Advanced Tier AWS Partner, Alpha Omega offers practical skills and industry-recognized credential opportunities for team members while simultaneously developing a workforce readiness program. 

Innovation takes many forms and Alpha Omega recognizes that to be innovative, we must examine our delivery and look to bring technology and services that are ideal to the client mission. Some of our most transformational methods are those we have created intellectual property (IP) in response to customer needs like Alpha Omega’s A2O,™ a trademarked automated ATO solution accelerator platform that enables customers to reduce security accreditation time by 90%. 

Under Gautam’s leadership, Alpha Omega has laid the groundwork for an increasingly mature organization and strategy for a more complex C-suite to support rapid growth and to maintain excellence in operations and customer delivery. Together with a team of leaders, Alpha Omega is poised to clear its next set of hurdles as a large, private business. Mentorship, professional development, and philanthropy remain key elements of the Alpha Omega core values and keep us tenacious in pursuit of solutions, innovation, and excellence. We are an organization that celebrates diversity and champions teams, with professional development and certifications opportunities at every level of the organization.

In 2022, Alpha Omega established an SBA Mentor Protege Partnership with WOSB Alesig Consulting. This allows Alpha Omega to provide valuable business development help including strategic planning and financial support in the form of equity investments, as well as valuable skills in navigating federal contract processes. The MPP is also part of Alpha Omega’s commitment to women-owned and minority-owned businesses. Mentorship and giving back to our community are Alpha Omega’s roots.

Asked about his mentorship and focus on professional development, Gautam said, “I have had great educational opportunities and I want to extend them outward to my team members and the future workforce. We need others to help us reach our full potential, and young people are eager to learn and hone their creativity. I have taken risks and I have made failures into opportunities to succeed. Every time I was not successful, I remember a quote by Thomas Edison, ‘I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.’ But when you do find a way that works, the 10,000 other ways only make it a much sweeter victory. I am lucky to be able to celebrate these moments with a team whose integrity and trust inspires me to give back and make a positive change in the world.”

We’re excited to see what the next chapter holds for Alpha Omega.