Aitheras LLC

Aitheras LLC, a Black American-owned, minority-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards) delivering document digitization, legal case management, data analytics, and records management services to civilian and defense federal agencies, with a $643.2 million combined potential value across 169 recent awards and a significant IDIQ position on the $151 billion SHIELD defense platform.

Aitheras competes across both full-and-open and small-business set-aside vehicles. While the vendor holds a critical seat on the multi-award SHIELD IDIQ (Missile Defense Agency, December 2025, $151 billion ceiling, through December 2028, full and open competition), the bulk of its active pipeline sits on the GSA Information Technology Schedule 70 and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, where many awards carry total-small-business set-asides. The vendor's SBA profile — Black American-owned, minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business — recurs across awards but does not constrain the vendor's competitive posture; Aitheras bids and wins across set-aside and unrestricted vehicles. The vendor does not hold a standing 8(a) certification and does not compete predominantly in set-aside categories, though set-aside designations appear in roughly 40% of sampled awards.

Customer concentration is severe and skewed by a single massive IDV. The Department of Justice Justice Management Division accounts for $519.6 million of combined potential value (80% of the top-five customer dollars) driven by a $16.7 million BPA call for DEA data analytics support under IT Schedule 70, awarded August 2022 with completion through March 2026, and a $2.52 million BPA for ALSS and ECS systems support through March 2026. The remaining top-four customers by dollars — GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($11.8 million across five awards), Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration ($11.8 million across four awards), Department of Agriculture Office of the Chief Information Officer ($7.8 million across six awards), and Department of Labor Office of Labor-Management Standards ($6.8 million across three awards) — represent $37.6 million combined, less than 6% of the total portfolio. The top five customers by award count (Securities and Exchange Commission, 11 awards; Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command, 9 awards; International Boundary and Water Commission U.S.-Mexico, 7 awards; National Archives and Records Administration, 7 awards; and Department of the Army Installation Management Command Northeast Region, 7 awards) collectively carry only $16.6 million in potential value and cover 24% of awards, indicating a broad tail of small orders alongside the concentrated mega-prime revenue base. The concentration divergence signals that Aitheras operates as a high-volume generalist across civilian IT modernization and records management (narrow orders with many agencies) while anchoring most of its dollar exposure to DOJ's data analytics pipeline.

Vehicle position centers on GSA IT Schedule 70 and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. Aitheras holds 28 task orders under IT Schedule 70 with $556.7 million combined potential value, including the $16.7 million DEA data analytics BPA and the $2.52 million ALSS/ECS call cited above. The GSA MAS carries 39 task orders with $26.3 million combined potential value, spanning document digitization, case management software, and records conversion work for agencies including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Internal Revenue Service, NASA, the EPA, and the Department of State. Recent representative MAS work includes a $5.053 million Total Small Business delivery order from the Office of the Chief Information Officer for BMC remedy support and administration through August 2031, a $1.094 million definitive contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs for legal case management software, and a $420 thousand delivery order from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for electronic records transition support. Aitheras also recently earned a position on the SHIELD IDIQ (Missile Defense Agency, $151 billion ceiling through December 2035, full and open), with an initial $500 delivery order issued concurrently for Huntsville, Alabama performance; this vehicle positions the vendor for task orders across defense R&D, systems engineering, and modernization work leveraging artificial intelligence and digital engineering, though no follow-on task orders have been issued as of the source date.

Activity has contracted materially in recent years. The vendor averaged 7.25 awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), with a sharp decline from eight awards in 2022 to five in both 2025 and 2026 (through September). SCI-reported invoiced revenue on prime contracts totaled $13.3 million across FY2022–FY2025 ($3.1 million in FY2022, peaking at $5.2 million in FY2023, declining to $1.9 million in FY2025). The SCI dataset shows contract-level FTE delivery of roughly 14.5 FTEs in FY2022, rising to 17.8 FTEs in FY2023–FY2024, then declining to 8.1 FTEs in FY2025. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ran from a 10th-percentile floor of $30.90/hr (data entry labor) through a median of $80.86/hr to a 90th-percentile ceiling of $243.78/hr (senior data science and engineering roles). The GSA labor portfolio spans 38 categories across $40.72–$245.13/hr, reflecting a staffing mix from data entry operators and imaging specialists through systems analysts and data analytics engineers, with no security-cleared positions offered.

Aitheras operates as a largely self-performing prime contractor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for only 6% of total contractor hours, with six named subs across the portfolio. Named teaming occurs as a minor subcontractor role: Aitheras subcontracted to Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP on a May 2026 MEGA5 automated litigation support engagement and to Booz Allen Hamilton on a September 2024 administrative management and general management consulting task, providing records management, data analytics, IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, and application support under the prime arrangement. This sub footprint signals that Aitheras rarely brings external partners and instead builds its own delivery teams for the data analytics, digitization, and case-management work it undertakes.

A recompete cliff is minimal in the stated window: only four awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $344 thousand, indicating limited near-term contract expiration risk for the vendor, though the large DEA data analytics BPA ($16.7 million) expires in March 2026 and represents a material recompete opportunity.

Services Provided

1.Litigation/Legal Support

2. Cyber Security

3. Document Management

4. Configuration Management

5.Records Management

7.Scanning and Digitization

8.Data Analytics