Assured Information Security, Inc.

Assured Information Security, Inc., headquartered in Rome, New York, is a small business prime contractor specializing in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, signals intelligence, electronic warfare, secure communications, and cyber operations research and development for federal defense and intelligence agencies. The company operates predominantly as a prime contractor (83% of recent awards by count) competing under total small business set-asides on research and development vehicles, with a secondary footprint as a subcontractor to large primes on systems engineering and cyber operations programs.

AIS competes across 37 customer agencies, with extreme concentration in research and development work. The Air Force Research Laboratory dominates the customer base by award count (158 awards, $3.82 billion combined potential value), accounting for roughly 54% of prime awards and anchoring AIS's presence on the Agile Cyber Technology 3 (ACT 3) program — a $950 million multiple-award small business set-aside IDIQ established in 2022 and running through June 2027. However, the top-five customers by potential value are anchored by the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command ($3.96 billion across 4 awards), which includes the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract — a $151 billion multiple-award indefinite delivery vehicle awarded December 2025 under full and open competition with no set-aside. SHIELD represents the largest single vehicle in AIS's portfolio and positions the company to compete across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid defense modernization work through 2035. The Air Force Research Laboratory remains the second-largest customer by dollars ($3.82 billion), and the Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center ranks third ($909 million). Department of Army Intelligence and Security Command accounts for $567 million across 9 awards, primarily the TENSHU program ($49.4 million initial delivery order in July 2023 for AI/ML software enhancement) and related cyber operations efforts.

The EVEREST contract — a $300 million single-award Air Force Research Laboratory vehicle for virtualized enterprise and remote access solutions awarded January 2025 — anchors AIS's sustainment and modernization work. Two delivery orders under EVEREST total $144 million: the $95.2 million Maintenance for Cross Domain Access Networks and System Live Upgrades (MANASLU) order (July 2025, Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex) and the $48.8 million Maintenance and Operations Keeping Vital Technology Secure (MAKALU) order (January 2025). AIS also holds a $98.5 million AI-Based Endpoint Defender (ABED) SBIR Phase III IDIQ from the Air Force Research Laboratory (July 2023 award) and positions on GSA's OASIS+ Total Small Business ($999,999,999,999 ceiling, December 2024 award) and OASIS+ Unrestricted ($999,999,999,999 ceiling, December 2024 award) multiple-award vehicles. On the Agile Cyber Technology 3 small business set-aside, AIS has exercised at least two delivery orders: a $2,000 systems engineering order (June 2022) and a $125.4 million ARCHANGEL-AZRAEL cyber prototypes order for the Army Intelligence and Security Command (April 2023). Representative recent prime work includes a $54.7 million Air Force Research Laboratory STALWART Phase III delivery order (July 2024, through September 2029), the $49.4 million TENSHU AI/ML delivery order for Army INSCOM (July 2023), and a $49.8 million Other Transaction Agreement with the Air Force for the VALIANT program (July 2022, through March 2027).

AIS maintains a robust SBIR/STTR pipeline, with recent awards including Phase II contracts on explainable large language models ($1.8 million Air Force Research Laboratory, September 2024), open multi-sensor counter UAS software ($1.1 million Army RDECOM, April 2025), and multi-modal neural authentication for resource-constrained hardware ($1.8 million Army RDECOM, August 2025). The company received a $149.9 thousand SBIR Phase I award from Washington Headquarters Service in August 2025 for generative AI synthetic data research, and a $1.8 million STTR Phase II contract from DARPA in September 2023 for the BYTE RI program in collaboration with Colorado State University and Alliance for Sustainable Energy.

Activity has accelerated sharply — 4 awards in 2022 to 32 in 2025 — though year-to-date 2026 shows 4 awards in the first half (most recent award June 2026). Thirteen awards totaling $498 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting significant recompete exposure and opportunity windows. The company's subcontractor footprint spans large defense primes: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Intelligence Systems Infrastructure, Tools, and Enhancements engineering, multiple 2024–2025 awards), Lockheed Martin Corporation (National Cyber Range facility operations and professional engineering support in Charleston, 2023–2025), BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services (systems engineering and analysis worldwide, multiple 2024–2025 awards supporting USAREUR and ONI missions), Radiance Technologies (DARPA Secure Advanced Framework for Simulation and Modeling Phase III, 2023–2024), and Scientific Research Corporation (National Cyber Range Complex Orlando site operations and cyber table-top support, 2024–2025). AIS also delivers cross-domain data synchronization services to Analex Corporation (XTREEMS NG program, 2025) and engineering services to RTX BBN Technologies on the Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security (INGOTS) program (June 2025).

Service Contract Inventory data covering reportable federal service contracts above $150 thousand shows sparse recent activity: $5.8 million invoiced in FY2022 (16.2 FTEs on 2 prime records), declining to zero reported SCI revenue in FY2023–FY2024, then rising to 6.5 FTEs across 2 prime and 7 sub records in FY2025. On prime contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $154.98 per hour through a median of $166.81 per hour to a 90th percentile of $178.63 per hour. AIS subcontracting footprint on SCI-reportable work is minimal (1% average sub-hours share across its prime contracts), indicating the company typically builds its own delivery teams rather than leveraging subcontracted labor on reportable service contracts. The SCI dataset reflects a narrow view: it covers only service contracts above $150 thousand and excludes the vast majority of AIS's federal portfolio, which is anchored in research and development, prototyping, and fixed-price or cost-plus delivery orders under large IDIQs and research vehicles.

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