Career Communications Group, Inc.

Career Communications Group, Inc., a Baltimore-based self-certified small disadvantaged business and Black American-owned Subchapter S corporation, secures federal purchase orders as a prime contractor to deliver conference sponsorship, event management, and STEM recruitment services — primarily for the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Conference and Women of Color (WOC) STEM Conference. The vendor operates in the full-and-open market without set-aside designation on the vast majority of its awards, though it maintains SBA small-business certifications including DOT Certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) status.

Career Communications Group's federal footprint spans 356 awards across 49 customer agencies, but concentration is acute. The top five customer offices by award count account for 44 percent of recent awards: the Army Corps of Engineers National Capitol Region Humphreys Engineer Center (60 awards, $1 million combined potential value), Naval Sea Systems Command (32 awards, $1.4 million), the Coast Guard (25 awards, $516 thousand), Navy Recruiting Command (25 awards, $575 thousand), and Army Materiel Command's Research Development and Engineering Command (16 awards, $645 thousand). By dollar value, the rankings remain similar: Naval Sea Systems Command leads at $1.4 million across 32 awards, followed by Humphreys Engineer Center at $1 million across 60 awards, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at $849 thousand across 10 awards, RDEC at $645 thousand, and Navy Recruiting Command at $575 thousand. The portfolio consists almost entirely of prime contracts (99 percent) rather than subcontract work; Career Communications Group subcontracts to Booz Allen Hamilton on STEM recruitment and employee-retention services delivering magazines, trade shows, and annual conferences, with sub awards dated February 2024 and November 2024.

The capability portfolio centers on conference production and sponsorship management. Representative awards include a $250 thousand NOAA co-sponsorship of the 2023 BEYA STEM Conference hybrid format (February 2023 through January 2028), a $310 thousand NOAA definitive contract for co-sponsoring the WOC STEM Conference (September 2022 through September 2027), and multiple $30–50 thousand purchase orders from Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and shared-services offices for BEYA and WOC event participation, partnership packages, advertising, and recruitment support. Work is performed in Baltimore, Maryland, and subordinate locations including East Case, Maryland and Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Award volumes have declined notably: the vendor secured 14 awards in 2022, 10 in 2023, 12 in 2024, 3 in 2025, and 1 in 2026 year-to-date. Only two awards face recompete inside the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $560 thousand. The vendor's NAICS footprint reflects this service concentration: 154 awards under Convention and Trade Show Organizers (NAICS 561920), 85 under Periodical Publishers, and the remainder distributed across educational support and professional organizations.

Career Communications Group, Inc. (CCG) is a small minority-owned Maryland-based business established in 1985 that works with government, military, and Fortune 500 employers to recognize, recruit, and retain science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) employees. We do this by offering venues to nurture, inspire, educate, and build the pipeline of STEM participants from K through 12, up to and beyond the executive ranks.

CCG produces two (2) annual conferences, The BEYA STEM Conference held each February in Washington, DC and the Women of Color STEM Conference held in Detroit, MI at the Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center and the TCF Center each October. They attract professionals, students (college and pre-college), employers from industry, government, and the military who have in interest and a stake in the STEM workforce.CCG publishes three magazine titles, US Black Engineer, Hispanic Engineer, and Women of Color and a resource guide, Becoming an Engineer.