Turnbull Services LLC, SRL, TOB
Language Services
Translation, interpretation, and cultural advisory for U.S. Government, NATO, and commercial missions. Delivered by operators who have run linguist programs from the Pentagon to the field.
Twenty years in the DoD linguist enterprise
Turnbull Services provides professional translation, interpretation, and language program management under NAICS 541930. This is not a newly added line of effort. Our founder, Rob Evans, a retired U.S. Army officer, has worked inside the Defense Language Interpretation and Translation Enterprise since 2006: as a contractor, as an Alternate Contracting Officer Representative, and as a staff officer for the Army G-2 Executive Agent for DLITE.
That combination matters to government customers. We understand how linguist task orders are written, how they are administered, and what fails in theater when recruiting, vetting, scheduling, or force protection is treated as an afterthought. We staff, manage, and audit language operations with the same standard we applied when the requirement sat on the government side of the table.
SBA Mentor Protégé with Atlas Advisors
Turnbull and Atlas Advisors, LLC are in an SBA approved Mentor Protégé program. Atlas is a HUBZone, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business with a standing foreign language and cultural advisory practice. Turnbull brings operator level program management and a European footprint.
Strategic partnership
Atlas recruits, screens, deploys, and sustains mission critical interpretation, translation, and cultural advisory services for U.S. Government agencies, the Department of Defense, and private industry. Their process evaluates dialect, prior military service, education, physical fitness, and prior performance, and they support customer vetting through SECRET, TS/SCI, and SAP requirements. Together, Turnbull and Atlas meet language requirements worldwide: CAT I, II, and III linguists, local national linguists, and cleared U.S. hires, with the recruiting depth and on site management to cover the assignment wherever it is required.
Capabilities
Full spectrum language support: from a single conference interpreter to a multi country linguist program with cleared personnel, quality assurance, and on site management.
Translation
Written translation with cultural and contextual accuracy for operational, legal, technical, and public affairs products. Document control and version discipline suitable for government delivery.
Interpretation
Consecutive and simultaneous interpretation for training, negotiations, command engagements, medical support, and field operations, including night and range events in austere conditions.
Cultural advisory
Bilingual, bicultural advisors who do more than convert words. Atlas and Turnbull place professionals whose dialect, regional knowledge, and prior service match the mission, not just the language pair.
Cleared and CAT I, II, and III linguists
Recruiting and sustainment of CAT I, II, and III linguists for CONUS and OCONUS assignment, including local national linguists. Experience supporting SECRET, TS/SCI, and customer specific vetting protocols.
Program management
Shift schedules, leave plans, on call coverage, timesheets, Host Nation rules, occupational safety, transportation, housing, and monthly KPI reporting so the customer sees 100 percent operational capability.
Language program auditing
On site evaluation of existing linguist programs: contractor performance, workplace climate, fraud indicators, and morale of U.S. and local national linguists. Actionable findings before issues become public.
Selected past performance
Program execution in garrison, in theater, and in multinational training environments. The record below is the founder’s direct operational history, now delivered through Turnbull and the Atlas partnership.
Latvia (current)
Program Manager for linguist operations at Camp Adazi, delivered through Turnbull for Atlas Advisors. Ukrainian English interpretation and translation with a team of 10 to 12 linguists on rotating shifts, 100 percent operational capability, and coverage for live exercises, range days, and night operations. Primary interface with technical officers and base commanders.
U.S. Department of State CARE
Deputy Director of Operations for Atlas Advisors on CARE CAS translator and linguist operations. More than 100 personnel across Qatar and Albania; schedules for 86 Doha linguists after the DoD to DoS transition; language operations spanning 15 countries; and a four day European gathering for 120 personnel from 13 countries.
DLITE / Afghanistan
Senior Task Order Area Manager for the Defense Language Interpretation Translation Enterprise. Administration, safety, and management of approximately 983 linguists (553 U.S. hires and 430 local nationals) across a large OCONUS contingency environment, including site visits throughout the area of operations and force protection decisions for U.S. linguists.
Iraq and HQDA G-2
Alternate Contracting Officer Representative for approximately 2,000 linguists in Iraq. Staff Officer and Project Manager for the Army Worldwide Linguist Support Contract at HQDA G-2, supporting the Executive Agent for DLITE. That government side experience is why our audits and program designs hold up under customer scrutiny.
Local national linguists
Atlas has a proven record recruiting and retaining local national linguists who bring dialect, regional knowledge, and community access that U.S. hires cannot replace. Combined with Turnbull's OCONUS program management, including 430 local national linguists under DLITE in Afghanistan, we staff mixed U.S. and local workforces that stay on mission.
Why government customers use us
We have sat in the COR chair
ACOR and G-2 staff experience means we write and execute to the contract, not around it. We know what a well run linguist task order looks like because we have administered one.
Theater and training proven
Iraq, Afghanistan, Qatar, Albania, and Latvia. Permissive, uncertain, and hostile conditions. The same management system covers recruiting, housing, PPE, Host Nation rules, and on call coverage.
Mentor Protégé depth
Atlas brings a mature language recruiting and clearance pipeline. Turnbull brings on site control in Europe and a founder who has already run Atlas language operations. The SBA Mentor Protégé structure lets us bid and perform as a coherent team.