We partner with our clients across the United States to identify challenges, execute solutions, and solve their most difficult challenges. Driven by a culture of customer services, employee empowerment, and innovation, we are committed to help our clients to achieve mission success.
Our leadership knows that our personnel are our greatest asset. Empowering our team to innovate, create and execute new technological approaches, we invest in our personnel and provide them with exceptional, experienced guidance to help them accomplish tangible results and meet and exceed client needs.
“Our values are the foundation of our success at MORI Associates. We strive to lead by example, operate with integrity, and maintain a relentless focus on our customers' mission. We believe in clear communication, a proactive vision, and sound decision-making, and are committed to continuously improving our processes to achieve excellence.”
- Shanaz Amirjafari, Founder and CEO
“At MORI Associates, we pride ourselves on our commitment to excellence, our unmatched technical expertise, and our ability to deliver innovative solutions to our clients across a wide range of industries. We operate with integrity, exceptional attention to detail, and an unwavering focus on client satisfaction, and we look forward to building lasting partnerships with our clients to drive success.”
- Michelle Hershey, Deputy CEO and CAO
The corporate headquarters of MORI Associates is located in Rockville, Maryland, with regional operations offices in Houston, Texas and Altadena, California. Our nationwide employee presence has spanned across 20 states and is continually growing as we support both federal and commercial clients.
Having successfully performed on several contracts at NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA Ames Research Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and more within the last two decades, we're ready to support your mission.
MORI Associates is founded and operated in Founder Shanaz Amirjafari’s basement with one other employee. Within months, the company secures its first federal contract with the Department of the Navy and hires five full-time employees, moving headquarters to its first office space in Bethesda, Maryland.
MORI Associates is awarded its first prime engineering contract with the town of Kensington - a local Maryland town quickly emerging as a hotspot for top engineering firms and solutioning.
Established to recognize teams whose significant contributions demonstrate innovation and acquisition excellence, MORI Associates is nominated for The David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award for its work with the Department of the Navy.
A successful project completion with the Federal Railroad Administration leads to continued contract wins with the organization and expansion of services from website assistance to data migration and Oracle development.
The start of a nearly two-decade partnership begins as the company secures its first subcontract at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). In the same year, MORI Associates makes history as it’s awarded with the largest contract to a Woman-Owned Business in the Department of the Navy’s history, with a contract value of $3.1M.
Beginning a fruitful and meaningful relationship with the National Institutes of Health, our support grows from one MORI teammate on one purchase order to a strong team of nearly 40.
MORI Associates is invited into the Department of the Navy Mentor-Protégé program assisting small businesses in expanding its footprints in the defense industrial base. A month later, the company is invited into the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Mentor-Protégé program with trusted partner and market leader, Lockheed Martin.
MORI Associates' presence is materialized as the company is named as a Top 100 Diversity-Owned Maryland Business, Top 500 Women-Owned Business in the US, SBA Women-in-Business Advocate of the Year, and Diversity Business.com Top 500 Women-owned business in the USA.
Completed in seven months instead of the projected two years, MORI Associates is one of the first five companies to receive the CMMI Level II Certification. The company is dedicated to streamlining process improvement, encouraging a productive, efficient culture, and decreasing risks in development.
After more than a decade of proven excellence and commitment to its clients, partners, and employees, MORI Associates headquarters relocates from Bethesda to its current office space in Rockville - a hub for top engineering and IT firms.
Expanding to the West Coast, the company is awarded its first Prime Contract with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory providing extensive network infrastructure and data systems end-user support as an IT mission-services provider. The team goes on to support more than 25 JPL missions, including OSIRIS-REx, the InSight Mars Landers, and others.
Motivated to give back to the community, the company and its employees around the nation donate to and participate in engagements with Meals on Wheels, Pasadena Education Foundation, DMV Food Finds, St. Jude’s Children, and others, bringing our mission statement to “progress science and technology for the benefit of all life on Earth,” to fruition.
Expedition 48 is MORI Associates’ first supported mission as prime contractor of the Communications, Outreach, Multimedia and Information Technology (COMIT) Contract, the largest prime contract in the company's history.
COMIT team members win an Emmy for their animated series, “So You Want to Go to Mars?,” designed to educate audiences about NASA’s upcoming plans to return to the Moon and journey on to Mars.
Space Communicator of the Year is awarded to MORI teammate, Bill Ingalls, at The Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) Gala, a special honor as the first contractor to be awarded this distinction for documenting space and NASA history.
Celebrating 25 years at the forefront of science, technology and engineering solutions, MORI Associates provides each employee with $25 to donate to a non-profit supporting further STEM education for underrepresented and underprivileged youth. $12,500 is donated on behalf of our employees to make a meaningful difference in our communities.
