A Subcontractor's Short But Lucrative Existence

By Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Scott Higham

Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, June 30, 2005; Page A13

The company hired to manage the complex logistics on one of the biggest homeland security contracts since Sept. 11, 2001, came out of nowhere.

Eclipse Events Inc., formed by two women with ties to the travel industry, first incorporated in Carlsbad, Calif., on March 28, 2002 -- two weeks after it received its $1.1 million no-bid subcontract from NCS Pearson Inc. That contract eventually grew to $24 million.