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Our integrated approach to meeting your organizational needs includes:
Government Relations • Strategic Communications • Business Development
ADS offers federal lobbying services as well as state lobbying services in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The ADS team enjoys bipartisan relationships throughout the federal government and a pristine reputation within the Commonwealth.
At ADS, we create and drive your political and legislative strategy; provide political consultation; monitor legislation as it pertains to your financial and regulatory interests; prepare testimony; provide introductions and messaging for interaction with key elected officials; manage Washington and/or Massachusetts State House visits; and engage your staff, subcontractors, vendors, partners, and other stakeholders as appropriate.
We track our hands-on, highly individualized government relations efforts-be they at the federal or state level-with the ADS POLITICAL BACKBONE™.
 ADS focuses on the audiences that impact your success in government relations and government business development. Our customized communications strategies reinforce your product development and distribution efforts and are designed to strengthen your relationships with public champions for your business.
The ADS team takes the time to understand all aspects of your business, increasing visibility with key audiences at every turn and ensuring that you are prepared to engage them in times of organizational change or crisis.
ADS merges understanding of the public sector with expertise in a number of industries including defense, homeland security, and U.S. manufacturing. We have the relationships and the creative ideas to recognize and successfully pursue emerging government business opportunities and partnerships on your behalf.
ADS specializes in initiating and facilitating new product R&D and product placement and in navigating the complicated competitive bidding process. We help you to develop opportunistic collaborations with suppliers and vendors to compete effectively in the development and procurement process. The ADS team tracks government solicitation announcements, provides technical consulting, identifies untapped sales channels, and introduces you to the government program managers that will make or break your government business.
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Case Studies |
A worldwide technology leader sought, as part of its corporate mission, to work locally toward building 21st century
digital literacy skills among children in grades K-12. ADS helped the organization's leadership frame the mission in terms of local value and build relationships with key decision makers at the state and local level. In response, the MA State Legislature created a special commission to study education technology.
Outcomes thus far include full implementation of one-to-one student laptop pilots in Boston and the Berkshires.
ADS worked with a small defense subcontractor to foster relationships with key members of Congress, based upon their
constituency and their positions on the Appropriations and Armed Services Committees. With ADS guidance,
the organization has leveraged those relationships to increase its value as a partner with major defense contractors.
A company specializing in corporate recapitalization acquired a major employer and manufacturer of high performance
textiles to the U.S. military. ADS oversaw and implemented all strategic communications for the company's successful
emergence from its acquisition, including message management with local and national press,
vendors, employees and labor unions, government and development partners, and elected officials.
The outdoor industry's recognized leader in on-the-move, individual water purification equipment
came to ADS seeking a strategy to enter new markets. ADS identified a critical military need for transportable water
purification, advised the company in adapting their technology to meet that need, worked with the U.S. Congress to secure
funding for the military product development, and then worked with the U.S. Marines to ensure timely fielding of the finished product.
The company's militarized water purifier is now issued to every U.S. Marine operating in Iraq and Afghanistan, allowing soldiers in combat to drink any water anywhere.
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Testimonals |
"ADS Ventures has successfully helped manage our messaging in a series of challenging public crises, as we've transitioned ownership over the past several years. On the road from financial hardship to financial health, we have been able to rely on ADS to help ensure that our U.S. manufacturing base remains relevant and that we maintain our technological edge through industry and government partnerships."
- Andrew J. Vecchione, President, Polartec LLC
"ADS Ventures brings the
breadth to guide us in our federal and state government relations
and manage that critical interaction with public relations. The
team provides a highly responsive, personal service that is essential
in the rapidly changing government business world. We have grown
dramatically over the past half dozen years and ADS has been with
us at every step, adapting to provide the key services we need."
- Doug Thomson, Director of Inter-Corporate Growth, Foster-Miller, Inc.
"Facing rapidly increasing energy costs, Polartec sought cost-saving opportunities in co-generation, conservation and alternative energies. Through a public/ private partnership conceived of and implemented by ADS—from feasibility study to state-wide business development incentive program application—we are now on our way to becoming a model of environmentally efficient business. In less than one year we have already seen savings in the six figures."
- Andrew J. Vecchione, President, Polartec LLC
"When it came time for us to expand our operations, ADS was instrumental in guiding us to the right location—one with a skilled workforce, forward thinking research partners, local officials with an interest in economic development, and financial incentives for small businesses. ADS introduced us to the local leaders who will continue to support our growth and to the economic incentives that will spur that growth."
- Vincent R. Ferrara, Founder, President & CEO, Xenith LLC
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