AD Astra, Inc.

AD Astra, Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, delivers telephonic and on-site language interpretation, document translation, transcription, and American Sign Language interpreting services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint across its federal portfolio. AD Astra operates as a Subchapter S corporation under primary NAICS 541930 (Translation and Interpretation Services) and competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements, with selective use of woman-owned small business set-asides across its recent award activity.

The vendor's federal footprint concentrates heavily in interpretation and translation work anchored by three marquee IDIQs: a $200 million multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for language and interpretation support services to the Refugee, Asylum, and International Operations Directorate (awarded September 2025, completion September 2030); a $40 million multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Department of Justice Criminal Division for language services (awarded August 2024, completion July 2029); and a $5.42 million single-award BPA with the Internal Revenue Service for over-the-phone interpreter services established under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (awarded July 2025, completion June 2030). Recent representative work includes a $1.533 million woman-owned small business set-aside delivery order from Immigration and Customs Enforcement for ICE Tip Line language interpretation services (awarded September 2024, completion September 2031), a $1 million delivery order from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for language and interpretation support to the RAIO Directorate (awarded September 2026, completion September 2027), and a $4.7 million woman-owned small business set-aside delivery order from NIH Clinical Center for on-site language interpretation, video telehealth, and document translation services (awarded July 2022, completion July 2027).

Customer concentration is pronounced by dollar value. USCIS dominates the portfolio, accounting for $210.3 million (59% of combined potential value) across nine awards; the Department of Justice Criminal Division holds $43.5 million across seven awards; the IRS carries $24.4 million across 31 awards (the highest count, reflecting numerous smaller telephonic interpretation calls); and the Executive Office of the President holds $10.1 million across three awards. These five agencies account for 83% of the combined potential value across 62 awards. The top customers by award count are the IRS (31 awards), the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (10 awards), and USCIS (9 awards), covering 47% of total awards; by contrast, the top customers by potential value are led by USCIS and DOJ, indicating a mix of high-value IDIQs and smaller, recurring translation and interpretation task orders.

AD Astra places substantially all work on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, which hosts 129 task orders valued at $82.7 million. Named parent vehicles include the USCIS Language and Interpretation Support Services IDIQ (3 task orders, $3.4 million), the CSOSA BPA (4 task orders, $125 thousand), and smaller vehicles. Award trajectory shows consistent growth: twelve awards in 2022 to twenty-four in 2025 (the highest single year in the source data), with nineteen awards in 2026 year-to-date. Nineteen awards totaling $11.6 million in combined potential value carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure.

SCI-reportable invoiced revenue for federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $10.2 million across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2025 showing the largest single-year volume at $2.9 million across 33.6 FTEs. The SCI dataset reflects FY2023 at $1.9 million across 8.1 FTEs, FY2024 at $1.1 million across 10.8 FTEs, and FY2022 at $4.3 million with no FTE reporting. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid hourly rates run around $98.26 per hour, with rates spanning a 10th percentile of $52.11 per hour and a 90th percentile of $21,855.28 per hour (the latter reflecting fixed-price delivery-order pricing methodologies). AD Astra performs 100 percent of contractor hours internally across its SCI-reportable prime contracts—no subcontractor hours are reported—sustaining a fully captive delivery model at scale. The SCI dataset captures only a portion of AD Astra's federal services revenue; IDIQs and BPAs generating the bulk of the company's potential value ($356.3 million combined) generate task-order revenue not yet invoiced or outside the $150,000 SCI reporting floor. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $28.9 million (8% of combined potential value), indicating a large inventory of unobligated ceiling and early-stage task orders across the USCIS, DOJ, and IRS vehicles.

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.