Altamira Technologies Corp

Altamira Technologies Corp, a for-profit technology company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, provides advanced science and technical intelligence analytic capabilities to the Department of Defense and intelligence community as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards), with primary focus on geospatial intelligence, measurement and signatures intelligence, signals intelligence, and foreign air, space, missile, and cyber threat assessment. The company operates predominantly as a large prime under the NOVASTAR $4.8 billion multiple-award IDIQ—a total small business set-aside vehicle—where it has received over twenty-five delivery orders since 2022, though its recent award mix includes both set-aside and full-and-open designations.

Altamira's customer concentration is extreme. The National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), a Department of the Air Force component, accounts for 26 of 30 awards (100% coverage of combined potential value) and $5.06 billion of the $5.12 billion combined potential value across the source portfolio. This concentration reflects Altamira's dominant role as a NOVASTAR performer rather than diversified agency relationships. The remaining four awards split among the Air Force (two awards, $52 million), the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (one award), and the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force (one award).

Altamira's recent award activity shows growth through 2024, then contraction: 2 awards in 2022, 8 in 2023, 11 in 2024 (peaking), 7 in 2025, and 2 in 2026 year-to-date. Ten awards with combined potential value of $53.9 million reach completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete risk. Representative delivery orders include a $91.6 million HF PED IDEAS effort (August 2025, completion August 2030) for high-frequency technical intelligence analysis; a $42.3 million Line-of-Sight and Bistatic Radar Production Tool Support II (LABRATS II) order (January 2026, completion January 2029) for radar intelligence production sustainment; a $44.7 million counterspace support delivery order (August 2025, completion May 2030); and a $19.8 million high-frequency analysis and tool support order (January 2024, completion January 2027).

Altamira holds a seat on the NOVASTAR IDIQ (27 task orders, $318.3 million combined potential value) and maintains smaller positions on the SAF CDM Analytical & Technical Services IDIQ and the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services contract. All work is performed cost-plus-fixed-fee at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, with select efforts in Washington, D.C. and Beavercreek Township, Ohio.

The vendor operates as a prime leveraging subcontractors rather than building entirely captive delivery. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for 26% of total contractor hours on average, with 17 named subs reported. Named subcontractors include Applied Optimization Inc. (minority-owned, small disadvantaged business), Parsons Government Services Inc., General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc., Stillwater Applications LLC (self-certified small disadvantaged business), Brilligent Solutions LLC, and CDS Support LIMITED (United Kingdom-registered). Altamira also subcontracts to primes, appearing on two sub awards: a $3.2 million engineering support task under Caci Technologies on the RS3 contract (March 2025) and a December 2023 sub task under Accenture Federal Services.

SCI-reportable federal service-contract invoicing totaled $6.3 million across FY2023 and FY2024—$309 thousand in FY2023 and $6 million in FY2024—reflecting 1.1 and 28.8 FTEs respectively in those fiscal years. Government-paid hourly rates on prime SCI contracts median around $77.97/hr, with senior labor pricing through $101.98/hr and entry-level labor around $43.66/hr. This limited SCI footprint reflects that much of Altamira's NOVASTAR work—particularly research, development, and classified intelligence production—falls outside the SCI reporting threshold or classification eligibility.