KalScott Engineering Inc. is a winner of a 2006 Tibbetts Award, a national recognition presented to small firms, projects, organizations and individuals judged to exemplify the “very best” in achievement reached through the Small Business Innovation Research Program, which distributes more than $1.5 billion annually to high-tech firms.

KalScott’s Tom Sherwood and Suman Saripalli are scheduled to receive the award today in Washington, D.C.

KalScott is one of two Kansas companies to receive a Tibbetts Award; the other is NanoScale Materials Inc., which is based in Manhattan.