Sikh Group Finds Calling in Homeland Security (New York Times, registration required).

Partial free article in The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon, US)

Akal Security, one of US's fastest-growing security companies, is wholly owned by the
Sikh Dharma of New Mexico. The Sikh Dharma community has been in Espanola, NM since the early 1970s and provides a place for meditation and community service.

Akal Security has over 12,000 employees and over $1 billion in federal contracts. It specializes in protecting vital and sensitive government sites from military installations to federal courts to airports and water supply systems.

It is the only only security company owned by a nonprofit religious organization.

And it is politically savvy too. They have contributed thousands of dollars to both Democrats and Republicans at the local as well as the national level.

The success of Akal Security in guarding vital sites is somewhat ironic given the attacks on Sikhs throughout the US after 9/11.