On July 13, 2022, Danko Arlington, Inc. President, John Danko, was honored to brief The Secretary of the Navy, The Honorable Carlos Del Toro, at the Washington Navy Yard’s Admiral Gooding Center.
Danko Arlington was invited as a certified Small Business HUBZone Concern to update Secretary Del Toro and his staff from various Navy branches on the current contracting climate. The meeting was an unprecedented opportunity for the highest levels of Naval administration to openly listen to Small Business. By sharing and discussing the current economic concerns together, both Danko Arlington and the US Navy have a better understanding of the challenges we together face moving forward.
Interestingly, Danko Arlington’s roots began at the Washington Navy Yard. It was there during World War I that John Danko’s grandfather, Joseph O. Danko, Sr. worked as a patternmaker in their wood shop adjacent to the foundry. After the war was over and after surviving the Spanish Flu Pandemic, he founded our company in Baltimore in 1920 at the age of 23. In 2010, quite out of the blue, Danko Arlington was honored to sand cast in aluminum exact reproductions of the original hand carved rope and wooden anchors in the Navy Yard’s Latrobe Gate which dates from 1806 – which after two hundred years still serve as the official symbol of the US Navy.
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