2023 Tier 3 Ukraine Award Winner

Ukraine has been an important partner country where Culmen has provided significant building partner capacity support, since Culmen’s inception. It is a country that holds a special place for Culmen.

Since 2004, Culmen employees have traveled, lived, and worked in Ukraine supporting joint U.S.-Ukrainian projects including the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, the Department of State (DOS) Export Control and Border Security (EXBS) Program, and the Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence (NSDD) Program. Culmen is the single prime performer that supports DTRA’s mission by providing services which all CTR project teams leverage to execute a set of functions that most projects encounter during traditional project execution: in-country logistics, in-country event management and facilitation, interpretation and translation, direct procurement, warehousing, international shipping, export control, and special infrastructure projects. Since 2009, Culmen has been a prime performer supporting the Department of State’s Office of Export Control Cooperation, the Executive Agent responsible for managing the Export Control and Related Border Security Program (EXBS) and is currently supporting the DOS Offices of Non-proliferation and Disarmament Fund and Cooperative Threat Reduction in their efforts to provide critical equipment needs to Ukraine.

Since the outbreak of the war, Culmen has worked diligently with the U.S. and Ukrainian governments to provide support. On behalf of the Departments of State and Energy, Culmen has sourced and delivered approximately $38M worth of CBRN personal protection equipment (PPE), body armor, helmets, UAVs, medical supplies, medical countermeasures, and other critical equipment for the State Border Guard Service (SBGS), State Emergency Services (SES), National Police Unit (NPU), State Security Services of Ukraine (SSSU), State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU), State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (SSTC NRS), and the Ukraine Special Operations Forces (UKRSOF). Culmen also supports security teams responding to incidents at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. In its role supporting DTRA, Culmen has also been responsible for delivering another $50M worth of technical aid to Ukraine.

About Culmen: Culmen International, LLC is an international security organization with more than eighteen years’ experience providing exceptional security support to the United States Government (USG). Headquartered in Alexandria, VA, with personnel permanently stationed in over 25 countries, Culmen is certified under International Organization for Standardization 9001:2015 for quality management. It is dedicated to enhancing international security by optimizing government operations and facilitating international collaboration so that Culmen’s customers can accomplish critical missions in challenging environments with constrained resources. The primary domains that Culmen operates in include weapons of mass destruction nonproliferation; border security; security cooperation and international partner capacity building; counter-terrorism and homeland security; military, intelligence, and federal law enforcement operations; and international development, which has resulted in involvement in more than 130 countries.