Airlines Reporting Corporation

Airlines Reporting Corporation, doing business as Airlines Reporting Corp, operates as a prime contractor delivering specialized air travel data, analytics, and reservation services to federal law enforcement and civilian agencies on a full-and-open basis. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, ARC is a for-profit organization that competes without set-aside designations across its entire federal portfolio.

ARC's core capability centers on proprietary air travel intelligence, passenger data analysis, fare tracking, and ticket transaction reconciliation services delivered through its Travel Intelligence Program (TIP) platform and related databases. The company positions itself as the sole industry source of third-party airline flight information accessible to federal law enforcement; the Bureau of Diplomatic Security's sole-source 2022 award explicitly recognized ARC as "the only entity industry wide that can provide third party airline flight information for law enforcement purposes." Recent representative work includes a $885,000 definitive contract (May 2024) with the U.S. Secret Service for ARC database access plus four option years; a $426,850 purchase order (March 2023) with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for an analytical training program; a $320,400 five-year standalone definitive contract (September 2022) with the Bureau of Diplomatic Security; a $225,500 annual subscription (October 2023) with the Department of Justice Criminal Division for Travel Intelligence Program access; and a $224,653 task order (May 2024) with the Bureau of Labor Statistics for monthly fare analysis reports covering non-U.S. and U.S. operating carriers.

Customer concentration is broad but concentrated in law enforcement and federal investigative agencies. The top five customers by potential value account for 58% of combined potential value and include the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Secret Service (9 awards, $2.3 million combined potential value), the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation (2 awards, $1.7 million), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (6 awards, $897 thousand), the Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security (3 awards, $737 thousand), and the Department of Justice U.S. Marshals Service Investigative Operations Division (6 awards, $686 thousand). By award count (47% coverage), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (15 awards, $644 thousand) ranks highest, followed by the Internal Revenue Service (9 awards, $635 thousand) and the Secret Service (9 awards, $2.3 million), reflecting a mix of travel-data-for-pricing and travel-intelligence-for-investigation use cases. ARC has worked with 31 distinct customer agencies across its recent portfolio.

ARC's recent activity has declined modestly. Over the past five fiscal years, awards have declined from eight in 2022 to one in 2026 (year-to-date), with three awards completing in the next twenty-four months carrying combined potential value of $540 thousand. A single parent vehicle appears in the source: the Federal Supply Schedule GS33F0010S, against which ARC placed three task orders valued at $42 thousand combined. The majority of ARC's federal work flows through standalone purchase orders and definitive contracts rather than through large government-wide vehicles.

ARC operates exclusively as a prime contractor; the source contains zero subcontract awards. Service Contract Inventory data capture only four SCI-reportable records across fiscal years 2022–2024, with total invoiced revenue of $150 thousand concentrated in FY2023 (0.1 FTEs). This sparse SCI footprint reflects ARC's positioning as a niche intelligence-data provider that delivers access to proprietary systems and databases — work structures that often fall below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold or do not trigger service-contract classification. Median government-paid rates on SCI records ran $1,562.50 per hour, reflecting high-expertise analytical and platform-access delivery. ARC does not engage subcontractors on its prime contracts.