Cypher, LLC

Cypher, LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and minority-owned (Black American-owned) firm based in Ashburn, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards) delivering program management support, IT services, and technical consulting to federal agencies predominantly through set-aside vehicles. The company holds active SBA 8(a) Program Participant certification through March 2029 and competes across 8(a) Sole Source, Competitive 8(a), Total Small Business, and full-and-open designations; recent awards show a strong bias toward set-aside awards, particularly 8(a) sole source and SDVOSB sole source vehicles.

Cypher's footprint is anchored by two massive IDVs that dwarf its transactional award volume: the $50 billion GSA 8(a) STARS III GWAC (awarded February 23, 2022, ultimate completion July 1, 2026) and a $17.6 million Federal Transit Administration single-award IDIQ for Safety Management System support (awarded September 30, 2022, running through September 29, 2027). The STARS III seat alone accounts for the entire combined potential value of the prime portfolio ($51.05 billion across 25 awards), though only $25.3 million has been obligated to date. Beyond STARS III, Cypher's concrete work centers on program management support services for the Naval Air Warfare Center, web-based application tools development for the Federal Aviation Administration under the eFAST BPA, and safety policy and risk management support for the FTA. Representative prime awards include a $3.41 million 8(a) Sole Source definitive contract with Naval Air Warfare Center for program management contractor support services (ultimate completion September 29, 2030), an $11.5 million SDVOSB Sole Source BPA call with FAA for web-based application tools under eFAST (ultimate completion August 14, 2027), and a $1.3 million labor-hours task order under the FTA Safety Management System IDIQ for safety policy and risk management support (extended through April 18, 2026).

Customer concentration shows a bifurcated structure. By award count, the Naval Air Warfare Center dominates with 10 awards ($9.8 million combined potential value), followed by FAA Headquarters (5 awards, $1.02 billion combined potential value), FTA (3 awards, $20.2 million), and GSA Federal Acquisition Service (2 awards, $50 billion). By potential-value rank, GSA's STARS III seat reverses the priority: GSA accounts for $50 billion, FAA for $1.02 billion, FTA for $20.2 million, and Naval Air Warfare Center for $9.8 million — 88% of recent awards split across these five customer relationships. Activity has contracted year over year: six awards in 2022, declining to one award in 2026, with three awards (combined potential value $15.3 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.

Under the eFAST BPA, Cypher has placed four task orders totaling $14.7 million in combined potential value; under the FTA Safety Management System IDIQ, two task orders total $2.5 million. The Naval Air Warfare Center single-award IDIQ N6833520D0049 shows eight task orders across $3.1 million. SCI-reportable invoicing spans FY2022 through FY2025, with $1.5 million invoiced in FY2022 across 6.9 FTEs and no invoicing recorded in FY2023; FY2024 and FY2025 show limited SCI activity (0.8 and 7.7 FTEs respectively), indicating most of Cypher's federal services work either falls below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold or is structured as goods or micro-purchases. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts held at a flat $107.03 across the 10th, median, and 90th percentiles, a mid-market profile for federal program management and IT support labor.

Cypher operates predominantly as a prime builder of its own delivery teams; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for only 5% of total contractor hours, with one named subcontractor reported. In its minimal subcontractor role, Cypher supports Science Applications International Corporation on two 2024 awards providing cyber operations policy, training, and technical expertise to the U.S. Cyber Command J3 Directorate. The company's capability portfolio, grounded in its NAICS distribution (10 awards under All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services; 7 under Computer Systems Design Services; 3 under Administrative Management and General Management Consulting), centers on program management support, IT infrastructure and application development, cybersecurity consulting, and federal compliance services, with a geographic footprint split between Ashburn and Washington, DC administrative overhead and Leesburg, New Jersey performance at Naval Air Warfare Center Lakehurst.

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