Bdpatoday Publications

01/01/2026

Dear Chapters and Members,

As we reach the conclusion of this administration, I have taken these final moments to reflect on everything we have built together. When we began this chapter of our journey, some of us as early as the mid-1970s with our late co-founder, Earl A Pace Jr., or mid-1980s, the challenges in data processing and emerging tech sectors seemed daunting.

Today, I am filled with immense pride at how our community has met those challenges with empathy, innovation, and action, discovering new opportunities along the way. Because of your chapters' relentless work on the ground, we did not just talk about the future—you actually created it.

During our first 50 years, BDPA has provided "road maps," "bridges," "scaffolding," and "professional development" support networks securing new youth programs while enhancing our communities' digital workforce.

As we welcome our new National President, Ms. Stephanie Gloster, and her new administration, here's to our next 50 years.

HAPPY NEW YEAR and thank you!

Perry Carter
President, National BDPA, Inc.
2024-2025
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12/25/2025

Wishing all our Members and Partners a very safe, peaceful, and joyful holiday season!

12/13/2025

GO NAVY! • BEAT ARMY!!

The 2025 Army-Navy Game kicks off today in Baltimore, 13 DEC 25 at 1500 hours EST. Of the 28 seniors at the U.S. Naval Academy on this year’s Navy Football team, 14 have received service assignments.

Follow the Corps, the Navy, and the Academy today on both Instagram and X for updates—Cyber Warriors wanted!

*** In case you missed IT, discover more about BDPA's Marine Corps story! Join or launch a local BDPA™ (bdpa.org) Chapter today . . .
Visit → https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bdpa-community-relations-corps-bdpatoday-washington-scfge/ ***

Semper Fidelis!
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— Sources and images courtesy
USMC/Dept. of the Navy

12/12/2025

HAIL & FAREWELL! A special BDPA Tech & Career Talk introducing America’s next President of National BDPA!

• Date:
Today, Friday December 12th, 2025

Your Local Time:
12:00PM EST/11:00AM CST

• Topic:
2025 Year-End Review: Kicking Off BDPA's Next 50 Years 🎞️ 🖥️

• Speakers:
Perry Carter - National BDPA President
Stephanie Gloster - National BDPA President-Elect

• Zoom Registration Link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/B7qBHqD9RjW9txDhy0OA_w

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12/06/2025

Register here → https://www.techsgiving.co/sessions
TECHSGIVING Summit 2025 • DC TECH WEEK • December 10-13, 2025

Explore a diverse range of topics and engage with industry experts through carefully curated conference tracks. Gain valuable insights for the Ai-Era, expand your knowledge, and connect with like-minded professionals in Washington, D.C.

Network during after-party events and technical professional sessions with Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and more . . .

12/06/2025

About

In 1976, Apple co-founder Ron Wayne made a decision that would become one of the most famous cautionary tales in business history. Worried about the potential financial risks and personal liability of the burgeoning startup, he chose to quickly sell his 10% stake in Apple.

At the time, Wayne believed he was making a smart, cautious move by selling his share for a modest $800, thus protecting himself from potential debt. His partners, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, went on to build a global empire, while Wayne retained no stake in the company.

That 10% stake in Apple would today be worth an estimated "$320 billion", making Wayne’s decision arguably the most costly financial mistake in modern business. His story serves as a powerful reminder of the huge, unpredictable rewards that can come from taking calculated risks.

11/29/2025

B.D.P.A. → Business Development • Proposals • Awards!

I.T. trade associations, local BDPA™ Chapters, and new technical special interest groups (SIGs), act as concentrated, highly relevant marketplaces that reduce small business sales cycles and marketing costs. Community technology associations such as BDPA™ facilitate introductions or "matchmaking" events during annual BDPACONs or regional innovation summits, connecting small businesses directly to decision-makers seeking specific solutions with technological expertise.

Visit → BDPA.org
Engage today. Join BDPA. Launch small businesses or new and relevant advisory SIGs!

11/27/2025

🍁🦃 ! 🦃🍁

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11/26/2025

This Thanksgiving, we pause to recognize our innovation, collaboration, and resilience shaping tomorrow's advanced technology for our communities. Your personal and local chapter's commitments to addressing complex challenges while building better solutions that empower others is something BDPA™ deeply appreciates.

We wish everyone a Holiday season filled with relaxation, happiness, and fresh inspiration to create wonderful futures together. Our teams extend their heartfelt thanks to you, your families, and local BDPA™ chapters. Thank you for your advocacy, corporate support, and member participation within your community as we forge ahead to align and implement new digital workforce policies and initiatives.

From all of us at BDPA™ and bdpatoday®, we wish you and your loved ones a very safe, peaceful, and Happy Thanksgiving.

Season's Best!

Perry Carter
President, National BDPA, Inc.
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11/26/2025

Prairie View A&M University’s proud legacy of producing leaders is a beacon. It drew Torina Lewis, PhD, from Rhode Island to Texas in January 2024 to advance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through community engagement and multidisciplinary innovation.

Now, she is the director of the Science Innovation Demonstration Laboratory and an endowed professor at the University.

Read more: https://www.pvamu.edu/blog/pvamus-newest-endowed-professor-is-transforming-stem-education/

11/23/2025

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11/11/2025

11 November 2025 • Veterans Day

Happy Veterans Day to our proud members, alumni, shipmates, and families who proudly served!

We thank you very much for your commitments to community, support of our youth programs, and selfless sacrifices.

Yours, Semper Fidelis

~ Perry Carter
President, National BDPA, Inc.

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In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…”

The original concept for the celebration was for a day observed with parades and public meetings and a brief suspension of business. After a few date changes, it became quite apparent that the commemoration of this day was a matter of historic and patriotic significance to a great number of our citizens, and so on 20 September 1975, President Gerald R. Ford signed Public Law 94-97 (89 Stat. 479), which returned the annual observance of Veterans Day to its original date of 11 November, beginning in 1978.

— Source: VA.gov