Dhara Consulting Group, Inc.

Dhara Consulting Group, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and American Indian-owned firm headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor on defense and federal IT programs, with a substantial presence on government-wide vehicles and blanket purchase agreements. The firm competes on full-and-open, non-set-aside vehicles rather than SBA set-asides, positioning itself as a Subchapter S corporation providing IT professional services, systems integration, software development, and program management support to defense and civilian agencies.

Dhara's prime footprint is heavily concentrated in defense work. The firm holds a position on the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award indefinite delivery contract issued by the Missile Defense Agency with a ceiling value of $151 billion through December 2035 — a non-set-aside vehicle supporting research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and disruptive technologies across multi-domain defense systems. Dhara also anchors a $1 billion single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of the Navy (awarded September 2022, period of performance through September 2024) for IT professional services, systems integration, and software development, and a $250 million multiple-award BPA with the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (awarded January 2022, period of performance through January 2027) for test and evaluation services supporting AI technologies across federal agencies. More recent capability work includes a $180 thousand Air Force Research Laboratory Small Business Innovation Research Phase I contract (awarded March 2024, completed September 2024) for design of Air Force Distributed Common Ground System next-generation enterprise IT systems using 5G technology for low-maintenance operations.

Customer concentration tilts toward the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration, which anchors a single $1 billion award (likely the eFAST BPA noted in the IDV block), followed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense at $250 million across two awards. The Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs appears in four awards, and the Missile Defense Agency accounts for two awards nominally valued at $500. Combined potential value across all sixteen recent prime and sub awards totals $1.26 billion, though only $70.8 million has been obligated to date (6% of potential value), indicating these vehicles remain early in their ordering cycles or inactive.

Dhara subcontracts to larger defense and IT integrators including Accenture Federal Services (data replication engineering, networks procurement, and infrastructure operations support across multiple task orders from December 2021 onward), Peraton Enterprise Solutions (a $25.5 million Consular Affairs Enterprise Infrastructure task order from November 2025), HII Mission Technologies (technology integrated services to the Navy for global threat deterrence as of September 2024), and Riverside Research Institute (high-frequency systems engineering support as of March 2026). Across SCI-reportable activity, Dhara has logged four federal service contracts above the $150 thousand reporting threshold between FY2022 and FY2024, all as a named subcontractor; the firm fielded approximately 26 to 29 FTEs on those sub engagements. This narrow SCI footprint suggests Dhara's federal work is concentrated on classified contracts, non-service-contract vehicles (IDIQs, BPAs, delivery orders), or sub-awards below the reporting threshold — not on open-market, unclassified service contracts.

The firm's capability portfolio emphasizes AI test and evaluation, distributed systems engineering, 5G enterprise IT modernization, systems integration, and cybersecurity work anchored to Department of Defense and national defense objectives. Primary NAICS framing centers on engineering services and computer systems design (four awards each), with secondary work in R&D, custom programming, and IT facility operations. Activity has been episodic — two awards in 2022, one in 2023, four in 2024, one in 2025, and three in 2026 — reflecting the lumpiness of large IDV awards and delivery orders rather than a steady contractor-services baseline.

Enterprise systems architecture, development, QA and maintenance. Built major software systems in Finance, Healthcare and Retail/Supply Chain industries. We also specialize in UNIX/Windows/Mac system/network administration, RFID, Management Consulting.