Ardent Technologies Inc.

Ardent Technologies Inc., doing business as Ardent Technologies Of Ohio, is a Dayton-based minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business that delivers professional services, technical and engineering support, program management, and investigative services to federal agencies predominantly as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) under GSA Schedules, small-business IDIQs, and full-and-open competitive vehicles.

Ardent operates as a Subchapter S corporation with minority-ownership designation (Subcontinent Asian American-owned) and competes on both set-aside and unrestricted vehicles. The company holds four major parent contract vehicles: the NASA SEWP VI GWAC (effective November 1, 2026, $20 billion ceiling, Total Small Business set-aside), the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ ($151 billion ceiling, full and open, awarded December 29, 2025), the GSA OASIS+ Small Business IDIQ ($999 billion ceiling, Total Small Business set-aside, awarded December 19, 2024), and the Defense Logistics Agency's JETS 2.0 enterprise technology services IDIQ ($11.9 billion ceiling, no set-aside, awarded October 21, 2024). Ardent also maintains a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract and holds a seat on the General Services Administration's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services — Small Business (OASIS SB) vehicle. Across these vehicles, Ardent has placed 22 task orders under MAS, 18 under OASIS SB, and multiple orders under DLA and other agency-specific IDIQs.

Customer concentration is diffuse across 37 distinct federal agencies. The Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Offices leads by award count (21 awards, $4.7 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (17 awards, $17.9 million), GSA Federal Acquisition Service (7 awards, $21.6 million), Defense Health Agency (6 awards, $24.2 million), and Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (4 awards, $27.5 million). A single award anchors the potential-value rankings: the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration holds one delivery order valued at $1 billion, but represents only a fraction of overall award concentration. The top five customers account for 54% of award count but only 3% of combined potential value, indicating a large volume of smaller orders across multiple agencies alongside fewer large-value awards.

Capability work spans investigative support, program management, technical and engineering services, and military medical modernization. Representative contracts include a $21.6 million Air Force Research Laboratory delivery order (August 2022, OASIS SB set-aside) for maintenance and fabrication of experimental processes and test equipment at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base through July 2027; a $9.1 million Defense Health Agency order (March 2024, OASIS SB set-aside) supporting the Defense Medical Modeling and Simulation Office in Falls Church, Virginia through March 2029; a $11.1 million Air Force Academy delivery order (September 2024, OASIS SB set-aside) providing advisory and assistance support to the Department of Faculty through September 2029; a $4.87 million Defense Health Agency order (July 2024, OASIS SB set-aside) for Vision Center of Excellence program management in Silver Spring, Maryland through January 2029; and recurring health care fraud investigator and civil enforcement positions placed with the U.S. Attorney's Offices under GSA MAS ($300 thousand and $290 thousand delivery orders, respectively, both awarded September 2026 with performance through September 2028 in Centerville, Ohio). The $546 thousand Air Force Research Laboratory contract (February 2025) supports advisory and assistance services for the Virtual Combat Environment for Electronic Combat at Wright-Patterson through August 2026.

On GSA Schedule, Ardent lists 99 active labor categories spanning administrative, technical, engineering, program management, and cybersecurity roles. Hourly rates range from $51.80 (junior-level case closure analysts with associate degrees and security clearances) through $293.20 (senior cybersecurity leads with bachelor's degrees and seven years of experience). Median government-paid rates across SCI-reportable work run approximately $72.29 per hour, with senior engineering and architecture roles pricing through $161 to $172 per hour.

Activity trajectory shows recent contraction. Awards per year declined from eight in 2022 to three in 2026 year-to-date (covering ten months), with six in 2023, ten in 2024, and seven in 2025. SCI-reported invoiced revenue from federal services fell sharply: $3.6 million in FY2022 (28.5 FTEs), $3.4 million in FY2023 (29.6 FTEs), $815 thousand in FY2024 (5.3 FTEs), and $497 thousand in FY2025 (4.7 FTEs). This decline reflects both reduced dollar volume per contract and lower reported FTE deployment. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Ardent subcontracts an average of 12% of contractor hours to six named subcontractors, indicating a mixed delivery posture that builds in-house capacity for core functions while outsourcing specialized or overflow work. Eleven awards (combined potential value $54.9 million) face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure concentrated in defense health, Air Force, and investigative-services work.

In its subcontractor role, Ardent performs instructional design and subject matter expert services under Team Carney, Inc. as the prime contractor, with three sub-awards recorded between December 2024 and June 2025 for instructional development delivery support across courseware development, system design, and content development.

The recent awards to new parent vehicles — SHIELD in December 2025 (an initial $500 delivery order), SEWP VI in November 2026, and OASIS+ SB in December 2024 — position Ardent to compete for task orders across broad federal customer bases in IT infrastructure, communications, defense systems engineering, and professional services. However, the contraction in SCI-reported activity and declining FTE deployment suggest either a shift toward lower-labor-intensity work, consolidation of multiple smaller efforts into fewer larger task orders, or reduced utilization on existing vehicles in the source data window.

Ardent, a 20 year old small business that provides a full range of IT support services, Cyber Security services, financial management systems support, facilities management and support, acquisition and advisory services, administrative support, program management, records management and staff augmentation. Headquartered in Dayton, OH, Ardent (100+staff) has served the federal, commercial, state/local government and higher education markets across the US since 2000.