For over 38 years, APEX Accelerators, (formerly Procurement Technical Assistance Centers, like the one at Pioneer Technology Center (PTC), have helped expand the number of small businesses that successfully compete for and win federal, state, and local government contracts. This program has been rebranded recently, but its mission is the same. Oklahoma PTAC is now Oklahoma APEX Accelerator, a name that the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education chose in coordination with a recent change in the federal grant program under the U.S. Department of Defense. Pioneer Tech’s own Dawn Brakey is excited about the change.