Verbio is a full-service consulting group that creates and executes multicultural marketing, multilingual communications, and international trade consulting to help you succeed in reaching your customers across 250 languages, across media, and across diverse, global audiences.

Vigilant Engineering is a Seattle-based engineering and product development consultancy specializing in defense, dual-use, robotics, IoT, and national security hardware. While many firms build hardware, Vigilant builds operational impact—leveraging deep defense business and engineering experience to deliver systems engineering, ruggedized prototyping, PCB and embedded design, and mission-ready solutions from proof-of-concept through field deployment, partnering with startups, OEMs, and defense organizations. Our team has extensive expertise in program management, schematic design, custom enclosures and mechanisms, design verification, design validation, embedded software and firmware development. We also help early-stage startups with identifying product-market fit for dual-use products, identifying and responding to opportunities to pilot your products with mission partners, developing a clean, NDAA compliant supply chain, managing contract manufacturing, managing custom-part fabrication and assemblies.

Vigor is a diversified business operating in six locations with 2,300 people dedicated to safety and quality. Vigor excels at complex fabrication in support of energy generation, our nation's infrastructure and national defense. It builds high-performance military craft and maintains our nation’s fleet. When the mission matters, Vigor delivers. Contact Vigor at [email protected].

The Washington Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) provides no cost, one-on-one technical assistance in all aspects of selling to federal, state, and local governments. They advise businesses on bid reviews, marketing assistance, contract performance, small business designations, and more. Washington PTAC hosts procurement training classes and seminars, and helps businesses register with the correct databases in order to compete for government contracts.

The Washington Army National Guard is comprised of five Major Subordinate Commands: the 56th Theater Information Operations Group, the 81st Brigade Combat Team, the 96th Troop Command, the 96th Aviation Troop Command and the 205th Training Regiment. Soldiers with the Washington Army National Guard live in every community across Washington State – from Spokane to Seattle, Anacortes to Walla Walla – and have been an integral part of Washington state communities for generations.

WCIT is the only organization in Washington dedicated exclusively to advocating for public policies that increase our state's international competitiveness. On behalf of its members?manufacturers, retailers, service providers, farmers & ranchers, non-profit organizations, and individuals?WCIT advocates for strong, pro-trade policies and investments that benefit Washington's small, medium and large employers and that create jobs for Washington residents.

Washington State Department of Commerce is the lead state agency charged with enhancing and promoting sustainable community and economic vitality in Washington, including the military and defense sector. They administer a diverse portfolio of more than 100 programs and several state boards and commissions, all focused on achieving one clear and simple mission: to grow and improve jobs in Washington. Their key customers include businesses, local governments, and community-based organizations.

As the oldest and largest privately-held commercial bank in the Northwest, with more than 40 financial centers and offices in Washington, Idaho and Oregon, we enjoy an advantage over our publicly-owned competitors. We base our decisions and policies on what’s happening right here in the Northwest—not in distant locales. Being independent, we are able to set our sights on long-term goals rather than quarterly results. We stay focused on doing the right things for our clients and our communities.

Wave Motion Launch Corporation is developing barrel-less launcher technology that will serve as a more compact alternative to artillery and a method of lowering the cost of space launch to $100 per pound.