Ares Technical Services Corporation

Ares Technical Services Corporation, a McLean, Virginia-based small business owned by Ares Holding Corporation, delivers safety and mission assurance services, program planning and control support, and technical engineering expertise to NASA and the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on 82% of its recent awards, with secondary work as a subcontractor to primes in systems integration and IT operations.

Ares competes across both total small business set-asides and full-and-open vehicles. The company holds positions on two GSA OASIS+ indefinite-delivery contracts awarded in December 2024—one under the total small business set-aside (ceiling: no dollar ceiling specified in the source) and one unrestricted (ceiling: no dollar ceiling specified in the source)—both spanning seven functional domains (Management and Advisory, Technical and Engineering, Research and Development, Intelligence Services, Environmental Services, Facilities, and Logistics) through December 2029. Ares also sits on NASA's SMAS III multiple-award GWAC ($146.3 million ceiling, through January 31, 2031) for safety and mission assurance services and technical engineering support governmentwide.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward NASA. Five awards account for 73% of the award count by source listing, led by NASA Goddard Space Center (5 awards, $702.4 million combined potential value), NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (3 awards, $438 million), NASA Johnson Space Center (3 awards, $60.1 million), and the Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency (3 awards, $53.2 million). When ranked by potential value, the concentration widens: NASA Goddard alone carries $702.4 million, NASA Marshall carries $438 million, and NASA Kennedy Space Center anchors a single award at $160.9 million. Recent NASA work includes an $11.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from Johnson Space Center for NASA-wide planning, programming, and control support through May 31, 2028; a $3.07 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from Glenn Research Center for aeronautics and space systems program scheduling and integration support through May 31, 2028; and a $37.995 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from Marshall Space Flight Center under the PP&C II task order vehicle for safety and mission assurance services through May 31, 2028. All three were awarded under total small business set-aside on September 1, 2026.

Ares also participates in the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025 (ceiling: $151 billion, through December 28, 2035) for research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, and test and evaluation across air, missile, space, and cyber threat domains; the initial $500 delivery order was awarded the same day with performance in Huntsville, Alabama.

Activity has accelerated sharply. Ares recorded two awards each in 2019 and 2020, then jumped to four in 2024, three in 2025, and nine in 2026 (through September). However, recompete exposure is substantial: seven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $268.7 million, including the $37.995 million Marshall Space Flight Center PP&C II order and the $11.1 million Johnson Space Center order, both expiring May 31, 2028.

Across SCI-reportable prime service contracts, Ares invoiced $79.6 million over fiscal years 2022–2025 ($17.9 million in FY2022, $24.4 million in FY2023, $24.4 million in FY2024, and $12.8 million in FY2025), with workforce scale rising from 107 FTEs in FY2022 to 190 FTEs in FY2025 on federal work. On prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates ran a median of $79.24 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $58.01 and the 90th percentile at $114.45. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, an average 37% of contractor hours came from 40 named subcontractors, indicating Ares relies on sub teams to cover specialized skill areas. In its subcontractor role, Ares delivers systems analysis, engineering, and IT operations support to Range Generation Next under a Launch and Test Range System Integrated Support contract and provides systems engineering, software development, IT operations, cybersecurity, and program management to an unnamed prime under an Enterprise Mission IT Services contract supporting NASA centers and facilities.

Ares's capability portfolio—spanning safety and mission assurance, program planning and control, earned value management, cost estimating, scheduling, systems integration, communications systems installation and testing, and IT operations—concentrates in R&D and engineering services (14 awards under NAICS 541712, three under engineering services NAICS). The company's position on OASIS+ and SMAS III positions it to compete for federal task orders across civilian agencies, while SHIELD and the Missile Defense Agency relationship anchor defense work. As a child entity within Ares Holding Corporation, Ares Technical Services Corporation operates as an independent contractor on the federal register.