KAI’s President and CEO, Bel Leong-Hong, was interviewed by NBC 4 Washington as part of a series highlighting Asian American and Pacific Islander community leaders for “Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month”. In a wide-ranging interview, Ms. Leong-Hong discussed the challenges and opportunities facing Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans (AAPIs).

KAI held its annual Holiday Party at 2941 Restaurant in Falls Church, VA on December 4, 2012. Over 80 employees, friends, family members, partners, and clients attended.

Everyone enjoyed the food, hospitality, conversation, and atmosphere. KAI President & CEO Bel Leong-Hong welcomed invitees, thanked them for coming, and re-iterated the importance of the KAI Family to her and to KAI Executive Vice President Ken Hong.

Megan Ferguson joined the KAI team in April 2011 as a Senior Policy Analyst, shortly after being awarded her PhD.   Dr. Ferguson’s work as a Senior Policy Analyst at KAI involves research and analysis in many diverse fields, as well as technical writing.  Before joining KAI Dr. Ferguson taught American Studies at the University of Dundee, Scotland for eight years.

Knowledge Advantage, Inc. is pleased to announce approval of an option renewal of its contract to provide Federal Government clients with innovative information technology solutions, via a 5-year extension of KAI's General Services Administration (GSA) IT Schedule 70 contract, GS-35F-0492L. Effective July 9, 2011, the option renewal will allow KAI to provide the full range of IT services to Federal Government customers through July 8, 2016.

Earlier this month, KAI CEO Bel Leong-Hong joined Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's Trade Mission to China. Though the trade mission continued on to Korea and Vietnam, Bel, due to time constraints, participated only in the China portion of the trade mission, where she represented the business and trade interests of the State of Maryland--indeed the people of Maryland--in meetings with Chinese business and government leaders.

Earlier this month, KAI CEO Bel Leong-Hong joined Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's Trade Mission to China. Though the trade mission continued on to Korea and Vietnam, Bel, due to time constraints, participated only in the China portion of the trade mission, where she represented the business and trade interests of the State of Maryland--indeed the people of Maryland--in meetings with Chinese business and government leaders.

KAI was awarded a Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to provide administrative, technical, and analytical support to the Office of the Committee Management Officer in its oversight and support for Federal Advisory Committees and other miscellaneous activities. This BPA is for a maximum of five years, and has a ceiling of $25,000,000. KAI looks forward to the opportunity to compete for task orders issued pursuant to this BPA, and to continuing its successful relationship with WHS.

From AsianFortune.com:

The Minority Enterprise Advocate Magazine has just named Belkis Leong-Hong one of the “50 Women of Influence and Power” in the U.S.

This is not really news. A mathematician and computer scientist by training, Bel, as friends call her, is the president and CEO of Knowledge Advantage, Inc. (KAI). Among her clients are government agencies and Fortune 100 companies. She once served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence.