Mission Essential Personnel

Mission Essential

Type	Private
Industry	Language, training, technical support, intelligence
Founded	Columbus, Ohio, U.S. (2004)
Headquarters	Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Area served	Afghanistan, Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, U.S.
Key people	Sunil Ramchand, CEO, Albert Campbell, CFO, Dave LaRocca, CAO
Revenue	Less than $1 billion
Number of employees	More than 5,000
Website	www.missionessential.com

Mission Essential (formerly Mission Essential Personnel or MEP) is a government contractor primarily serving intelligence and military clients. Mission Essential got its start as the US government's leading provider of translators and interpreters. The company is based in Dulles Corner, Virginia, with a significant office in New Albany, Ohio.

Mission Essential's goal is to deliver operational solutions for high-consequence missions to defense, diplomatic, intelligence community and law enforcement customers, as well as multinationals and friendly foreign governments. The company helps customers combat terrorism, transnational crime, natural disasters, and other hazards to global security. Its three tranches of service are: Intelligence & Insight (such as All-Source Analysis and ISR operations), Development & Capacity Building (such as counter-narcotics and cultural advisory), and Readiness & Resilience (including emergency management, training, and continuity of operations). Due to the confidential nature of its work, Mission Essential does not highlight all of its accomplishments or clients.

In August 2010, the U.S. Army named Mission Essential as a winner of a five-year, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Intelligence Support Services contract, with a ceiling of $492 million. In September 2010, Mission Essential won a spot on the multimillion-dollar Intelligence Support Services – Afghanistan (ISS-A) contract vehicle providing MULTI-INT operations in support of CENTCOM. The company won three task orders on ISS-A providing MULTI-INT operations support in March 2012 and another in September 2013. Mission Essential has also won work with the Defense Intelligence Agency on the Solutions for Intelligence Analysis (SIA) II vehicle. Intelligence analyst Marisa Freese, who joined the company after her time serving in the military, said, “Mission Essential gives me an opportunity to continue working in the Intelligence Community. The work is really important. Everything we do is to protect our nation’s security.”

Mission Essential and its staff have assisted US security interests, including capacity building, counter-narcotics, multi-national law enforcement, and border management. The company’s law enforcement subject matter experts has included former top DEA operative Mike Vigil, who infiltrated drug cartels during his decades with the DEA as detailed in his memoirs "Deal."