Ascend Technologies Group, L.L.C.

Ascend Technologies Group, L.L.C., a minority-owned, Black American-owned small business based in Derwood, Maryland, supplies cybersecurity software, IT infrastructure hardware, and endpoint protection services to federal agencies as both a prime contractor (27% of recent awards) and a subcontractor (73%) to major systems integrators. Incorporated in December 2022, the company operates as a sole proprietorship and structures its prime work around Total Small Business and Partial Small Business set-asides, competing predominantly within set-aside categories rather than full-and-open procurement.

Ascend's prime footprint centers on cybersecurity licensing and IT hardware procurement. Recent representative work includes a $4.58 million firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by US Cyber Command in April 2026 for CrowdStrike licenses (Total Small Business set-aside, completion April 2031), a $1.17 million definitive contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency in February 2024 for CrowdStrike software and subscription services through February 2029 (Total Small Business set-aside, performance at Fort Belvoir, Virginia), and a $14.7 thousand purchase order from a civilian agency in September 2025 for hard drives serving a network-attached storage array (Total Small Business set-aside, performance in Atlantic City, New Jersey). The company also holds a seat on NASA's SEWP VI Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (awarded November 2026, Partial Small Business, $20 billion ceiling through October 2036) — a vehicle generating the bulk of Ascend's reported combined potential value despite carrying no obligated dollars to date.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed by the SEWP VI vehicle ceiling. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration accounts for $20 billion in combined potential value from a single IDV award (100% of potential-value share), while the Department of Defense Cyber Command ($4.6 million) and Defense Threat Reduction Agency ($1.2 million) anchor defense IT and cybersecurity work. The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency appears on six awards (the largest share by award count at 40% of recent work), and the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration carries two small orders totaling $15 thousand. The 80% by-award-count coverage reflects concentration among DHS CISA, DoD, and NASA but obscures the outsized dollar dominance of the SEWP VI ceiling.

Ascend's subcontractor role drives operational activity. The company subcontracts to Booz Allen Hamilton across multiple CDM Defend Group BD Bridge task orders (four awards between September 2025 and March 2026), to ManTech Advanced Systems International on US Southern Command Cyber Information Technology Enterprise Services 2 (SCITES 2) task orders for enterprise-level cyber and data-informed IT services (two awards in December 2025 and January 2026), to Accenture Federal Services on Integrated Enterprise Program (IEP) infrastructure and operations work (September 2025), to CACI, Inc. – Federal on CDM Defend Group A Bridge task orders (December 2025), to L3Harris Technologies on OASIS II cloud workload control tasks (July 2025), and to Endictus Corp on strategic threat intelligence and analysis services (December 2023). The subcontract footprint clusters around cybersecurity risk management, endpoint protection software delivery, and IT infrastructure provisioning to defense and civilian federal agencies.

Activity has accelerated sharply. One award in 2023, one in 2024, six in 2025, and seven in 2026 reflects a recent growth trajectory driven primarily by subcontract volume and the November 2026 SEWP VI GWAC award. Combined obligated dollars across all awards stand at $6.2 million (0.03% of combined potential value), indicating the SEWP VI vehicle is not yet generating order volume against the ceiling and obligated work concentrates on the three definitive CrowdStrike/hardware contracts and sub task orders.