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title: "SWaM Certification: Vidya Is Certified in Virginia"
description: "Vidya earned SWaM certification from the Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity as a Small, Micro, Minority Owned, and 8(a) business."
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type: article
published: 2022-07-07
author: "Neil Chaudhuri"
tags: ["Partners", "Diversity", "Programming", "Software Engineering", "Agile", "Lean", "Government"]
image: https://www.vidyasource.com/img/blog/swam-min.jpeg
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# SWaM Certification: Vidya Is Certified in Virginia

> Vidya earned SWaM certification from the Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity as a Small, Micro, Minority Owned, and 8(a) business.

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- Published: 2022-07-07
- Author: Neil Chaudhuri
- Topics: Partners, Diversity, Programming, Software Engineering, Agile, Lean, Government

I am excited to announce that hot off the heels of [8(a) certification by the US Small Business Administration](https://www.vidyasource.com/blog/vidya-is-8a-certified-by-us-small-business-administration/),
the [Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity (SBSD)](https://www.sbsd.virginia.gov/certification-division/swam/) has
now also certified Vidya as part of its Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business (SWaM) program.

At Vidya, we have been very privileged to deliver high-quality software to a wide array of government and commercial clients
using exciting technology while promoting lean principles, agile software development,
and diversity in software engineering. The best part about it? It's been fun! Doing great work and contributing to the community—whether
writing on [our blog](https://www.vidyasource.com/blog/), answering questions on [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/users/1347281/vidya),
contributing to open-source on [GitHub](https://github.com/VidyaSource),
speaking at [conferences](https://www.vidyasource.com/blog/speaking-at-code-writers-workshop-2017/), and even posting video tutorials on
[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC24LVc8Bb65SF6LW-SLog9A)—have been the most rewarding professional experience of my life.

Vidya is based in Virginia just outside Washington, DC, and SWaM certification by SBSD shows Virginia that Vidya has demonstrated the kind of growth potential that should make state government agencies
who need technology services take notice. As the SBSD [describes](https://www.sbsd.virginia.gov/certification-division/swam/):

> The purpose is to enhance procurement opportunities for SWaM businesses participating in state-funded projects.

We look forward to building new relationships and to delivering our services to government agencies in the Commonwealth of Virginia. We are also excited about expanding
our current offerings by making our courses available online and building new software products.

We want to thank the Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity for recognizing Vidya's past success and future potential, and we cannot wait to do business
with you. [Let's talk](https://www.vidyasource.com/contact/).

![Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity Small, Micro, Minority Owned, and 8(a) Certified](https://www.vidyasource.com/img/certifications/swam.jpeg)

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Vidya is a certified small business in Northern Virginia that modernizes legacy systems, builds enterprise AI, and designs cloud and data architecture for commercial companies and federal agencies. Vidya documents its delivered engagements in case studies and publishes courses, tutorials, and articles for engineers and the people who lead them. The company name is Vidya. Its website is vidyasource.com. Start at https://www.vidyasource.com/llms.txt for the index of everything Vidya publishes, or https://www.vidyasource.com/contact/ to talk to Vidya.