SBA Honors Entrepreneurs The owner of a New Jersey construction company has been named SBA’s Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year. Anne C. O’Brien is president of Kalimex Inc. of Ocean View, NJ, a woman-owned 8(a) firm with more than $18 million in annual sales. In one of its recent projects Kalimex reopened the stairs to the crown of the Statue of Liberty for the first time since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The National Park Service described the company’s work as “sleek, elegant and magnificent.” Kalimex also restored Edgar Allen Poe’s historic house in Philadelphia for the Park Service. SBA honored W.T. Gardner, founder and CEO of Savage Precision Fabrication Inc. of Wylie, TX, as its Small Business Subcontractor of the Year. Gardner founded Savage, a veteran-owned and Native-American owned firm, with $2,000 worth of tools. The company manufactures precision machine and sheet metal fabrication components for the aerospace, military, defense and high-tech industries. It has 38 employees and $4.4 million in annual sales. Waymon Armstrong, the owner of Engineering & Computer Simulations Inc. in Orlando, FL, was named Small Business Person of the Year. Armstrong’s company uses computer simulations to help government and private-sector clients prepare for and respond to natural disasters, medical emergencies and combat The awards were presented May 25 during Small Business Week in Washington.