Arc Aspicio’s Commitment to Social Justice

Our nation’s legacy is based on providing equal opportunity and a safe environment for all people. Recent events across the country remind us there is work to do, and that we can be a part of, in promoting social justice. As citizens and as consultants, we should be role models in fairness, diversity, and inclusion. Achieving these goals strengthens our company, helps us provide the best service to our clients, and provides all our employees the environment in which they can thrive.

Our company emphasizes respect and integrity and does not tolerate racism or discrimination. As a professional services firm that serves the Government, it is critical that Arc Aspicio form and enable diverse and collaborative teams to create bold ideas and solve the most complex of our nation’s challenges for our clients in homeland security and beyond. Our culture emphasizes acting bravely in all we do, individually and as a team. As we explore and experiment to strengthen the company and deliver to our clients, we rely upon different ideas from all team members to become a hub of creativity.

Arc Aspicio reinforces our pledge to take intentional action to live up to these principles:

• Our leaders are committed to listen to the experiences and viewpoints of employees and welcome ideas to make our company better. Frequent conversations, building relationships, and inviting questions and ideas helps us act when needed

• We will actively promote diversity in our hiring, attracting more diverse candidates to our company, and we will provide leadership and career opportunities to our employees

• We expect all employees to be welcoming to new joiners and new members of a team, intentionally taking time to build relationships that foster a collaborative environment

• Employees must hold each other accountable, bring forward ideas and engage with each other and with our leaders, seek to understand each other, understand the biases (conscious and unconscious) we may have, and respect different opinions

• We must all continually assess how well our company is doing and bring forward ideas to help us do it better

In our early days, Arc Aspicio established and then matured a foundation of ethics where we hold ourselves and each other to the highest standards of professionalism and conduct. Arc Aspicio is an equal opportunity employer, maintains and acts on our annual Affirmative Action Plan, and has a mature Code of Conduct and ethical standards and guidelines for our employees and our subcontractors. Our Ethics program provides a safe environment for employees to raise concerns or make complaints and our company has a formal process for conducting ethics and human resources investigations and taking decisive action.

Sincerely,

The Leadership Council

Lynn Ann Casey

Rob O’Keefe

Hannah Brody

Tim Faulkner

Dave Stahlman

Jim Mackin