Digital Audio Corp

Digital Audio Corp, doing business as Salient Sciences, manufactures advanced video and audio analysis software and digital forensics tools for federal law enforcement, investigative, and intelligence agencies, operating exclusively as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal procurements with no set-aside designations. Based in Hendersonville, North Carolina, the vendor is a for-profit manufacturer of goods classified primarily under NAICS 334210 (Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing) and PSC 5835 (Sound Recording and Reproducing Equipment), with 177 prime awards spanning law enforcement, homeland security, and financial-regulatory customers over four decades of federal contracting.

The vendor's customer base spans 34 federal agencies, but concentration is acute and skewed toward two divergent patterns. By award count, the top five customers account for 46% of awards, led by the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Division (27 awards, $945 thousand combined potential value), the FBI broadly (22 awards), the Department of the Army (12 awards), the Internal Revenue Service (11 awards, $285 thousand), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (9 awards, $64 thousand). By potential value, however, the portfolio is anchored almost entirely by two massive awards: the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Chief Information Officer holds 2 awards carrying $1.5 billion in combined potential value, and GSA Federal Acquisition Service holds 2 awards valued at $417 million — together these four awards represent nearly all of the vendor's $1.92 billion combined potential value ceiling. The gap between volume and dollars signals that most individual awards are small licensing renewals and maintenance orders, while DHS and GSA awards carry transformational scale.

Salient Sciences places work through the Federal Supply Schedule GS03F4062B (66 task orders, $2.9 million combined potential value), the Multiple Award Schedule (21 task orders, $389 thousand), and the Technical Investigative Surveillance Equipment vehicle (11 task orders, $612 thousand). Recent named capability awards include a $176.790 thousand SEC purchase order for VOCALISE audio analysis software subscription renewal under firm fixed price (completion September 2026), an $81.890 thousand Department of Justice Headquarters Division order for VFPRO and VFSOURCE software maintenance and floating licenses (April 2022), and a $143.900 thousand SEC order for CLEAVER, MADCAT, and SMART SUBTRACT renewals (completion September 2027). The vendor also delivered a $68 thousand Internal Revenue Service purchase order for Fauxdio audio authentication software licenses (completion September 2029). Core product lines include MADCAT (Multimodal Audio Content Analysis Tool), VOCALISE, VFPRO, VFSOURCE, and CLEAVER, serving digital forensics, criminal investigation, and litigation-support functions. Award activity has declined from four awards in 2022 to one in 2026, though only two awards face recompete within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $209 thousand). Obligated dollars total $8.5 million across the portfolio, representing less than 1% of the $1.92 billion potential-value ceiling, indicating substantial unused contract capacity on the two large DHS and GSA vehicles.

Provider of audio and video hardware and software forensics products, related training, and design services