Crestwood Technology Group Receives Silver Boeing Performance Excellence Award

YONKERS, N.Y., Jan. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Crestwood Technology Group (CTG) today announced that it has received the 2010 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance. CTG maintained a Silver composite performance rating for each month of the 12-month performance period, from Oct. 1, 2009, to Sept. 30, 2010.

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This year, Boeing recognized 558 suppliers who achieved either a Gold or Silver level Boeing Performance Excellence Award.  CTG is among 417 suppliers to receive the Silver level of recognition.  

"CTG is truly humbled to have received the Boeing Performance Excellence Award for the third year in a row," said Denise Gilchrist, CTG's President and Founder.  "It clearly demonstrates our commitment to Boeing's programs and CTG's mandate to provide all our clients unparalleled counterfeit avoidance, quality assurance and customer service." 

CTG stocks obsolete and hard-to-find parts that are essential in maintaining operational readiness for military, defense and aerospace operations.   CTG is the first distributor of its kind with QMI quality certifications in ISO 9001:2000, AS 9120:2002 (Aerospace), ISO14001:2004 and ANSI/ESD-S.20-20-1999, as well as IDEA Professional Inspectors Certifications, it is a recognized pioneer and industry leader in counterfeit avoidance and quality control.  CTG continues to contribute to the G-19 working group for the development of SAE AS6081, the new government standard for counterfeit electronics parts avoidance protocol in Franchise and Independent distribution. CTG's Authent-Assure® counterfeit avoidance program and quality control processes have helped shape internal quality notes  and counterfeit avoidance processes at some of the leading aerospace and defense contractors in the world.  CTG's Authent-Assure® program makes certain that its clients are acquiring only genuine parts and equipment.

CTG supplies electronic components, electromechanical parts, cable assemblies, capacitors, connectors, diodes, fasteners, hardware, integrated circuits, relays, resistors, semiconductors, transistors, screws, helical coil inserts, rails, rail assemblies, splice block modules, contact sockets, actuators, cable adapters and diode rectifiers to Boeing for a wide range of aircraft programs including PODS (Passive Obstacle Detection Systems), Harpoon, JDAM, SLAM-ER, Heritage, B-52, B-2 Bomber, F18, F-15, A-160, KC-10, KC-135, C32A, R&D division of Flight Test and BGRC (Boeing Guidance Repair) BGRC is recognized within The Boeing Company as a Strategic Center for defense electronics, guidance, and navigation repair. BGRC repairs, tests, and calibrates nearly every type of guidance/navigation system including: inertial navigation units for aircraft such as the F-15, F-16, F-117, B-1B, B-2, B-52, C-17, C-130, and C-141, as well as the Minuteman III and Peacekeeper Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. BGRC also services advanced cruise missile sensors and maintains the Dual Miniature Inertial Navigation System (DMINS) for the Navy's aircraft carriers.

CTG specializes in finding, procuring and stocking all the parts that military, defense and aerospace companies need to maintain their fleets. To instantly locate obsolete, hard-to-find or heavily allocated parts by manufacturer part number or NSN, visit www.CTG123.com and search through our Inventory Locator feature; learn costs through our Rapid Quote System.

About Crestwood Technology Group

CTG is a Woman Owned - Small Business, cage code is 1S5X8, and is an approved and qualified supplier to the U.S. Government, Armed Forces and key aerospace and defense contractors. CTG has been recognized as a Lockheed Martin Small Business Supplier of the Year April 2010 and is one of only 25 distributors globally to be named to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Qualified Suppliers List of Distributors (QSLD) for FSC 5961 and 5962.  CTG continues to be the distributor that buyers trust when procurement is critical. For more information, please visit www.CTG123.com

And for more information about the Boeing Performance Excellence Award, visit http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/doingbiz/supplier_portal/bpea.html.

SOURCE Crestwood Technology Group (CTG)