AD Astra, Inc.

AD Astra, Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, provides interpretation, translation, transcription, and American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services to federal agencies as a prime contractor across the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and specialized agency indefinite delivery contracts. The vendor operates 100% as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint; all 122 recent federal awards reflect direct delivery of language services to civilian and defense agencies.

AD Astra is a Subchapter S corporation self-certified as a woman-owned small business and small disadvantaged business, with primary NAICS 541930 (Translation and Interpretation Services). The vendor's federal work centers on telephonic interpretation, on-site interpretation, document translation, transcription, and accessibility services (real-time captioning, ASL interpreting) for limited-English-proficient beneficiaries and employees across government operations.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward immigration and tax administration. The top five funding agencies account for 83% of combined potential value: the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services leads at $209.3 million potential value (8 awards, driven by a $200 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded September 2025), followed by the Department of Justice Criminal Division ($41.3 million across 5 awards), the Internal Revenue Service ($24.1 million across 29 awards), the Executive Office of the President ($10.1 million), and the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center ($6.9 million). By award count, the IRS (29 awards) and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (9 awards) drive volume; by dollars, the USCIS IDC anchor dominates the portfolio.

AD Astra's vehicle position centers on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, which carries 124 task orders worth $80.5 million in combined potential value. The vendor holds multiple single- and multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreements as parent vehicles: a $5.42 million IRS BPA for over-the-phone interpreter services (established July 2025, running through June 2030), a $40 million Department of Justice Criminal Division multiple-award IDC (August 2024 through July 2029), the $200 million USCIS Language and Interpretation Support Services IDC (September 2025 through September 2030), a $2.5 million IRS BPA for interpreting and translation services under DOJ compliance requirements (September 2024 through September 2029), a $10 million Executive Office of the President BPA for ASL interpreting and captioning (March 2023 through March 2028), and a $1 million Federal Energy Regulatory Commission BPA (May 2024 through April 2029). Representative task orders include a $2.138 million delivery order from USCIS for refugee and asylum operations language support, a $1.229 million IRS call for Small Business/Self-Employed Division interpreting (exercising option year one), a $1.577 million Customs and Border Protection order for Border Patrol translation services, and a $4.7 million NIH Clinical Center delivery order for on-site interpretation and telehealth translation (exercising option period 4, through July 2027).

Activity has grown steadily — from 12 awards in 2022 to 24 in 2025 — with nine awards recorded in 2026 to date. Eighteen awards worth $11 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. The vendor operates exclusively on the GSA MAS and established IDV vehicles, with awards set aside under various categories including Total Small Business, Woman-Owned Small Business, and no set-aside designations.

Service Contract Inventory data reflects a narrower federal-services footprint: SCI-reported invoicing of $7.4 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $4.3 million; FY2023: $1.9 million; FY2024: $1.1 million), with a workforce trajectory of roughly 8.1 FTEs in FY2023 and 10.8 FTEs in FY2024 on SCI-reportable prime contracts. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI records run a median around $98.26/hr, with the 10th percentile at $52.11/hr and the 90th percentile at a contract-level ceiling rate of $21,855.28/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor performs 100% of contractor hours internally (zero sub-hours share), reinforcing its build-to-suit service delivery model rather than a subcontractor-reliant structure. SCI is a partial window into federal service spending above $150,000 and does not represent total enterprise revenue.

Ad Astra specializes in face-to-face & telephonic interpreters, assistive technology, language instruction and translation 24/7/365 in 180 + languages/dialects and sign language for Deaf/Hard of Hearing and Limited English Proficient consumers.