Empower AI, Inc.

Empower AI, Inc., a HUBZone-certified joint venture owned by H.i.g. Capital Management Inc. and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, is a defense and civilian federal IT services and systems engineering prime contractor competing across full-and-open solicitations on government-wide and agency-specific vehicles. The vendor operates as a prime on 2,651 recent awards (100% of the portfolio), carrying a $329 billion combined potential value across 153 customer agencies and executing $500.5 million in SCI-reportable invoiced federal services labor through fiscal 2024.

Empower AI's capability footprint spans custom application development, systems engineering, cybersecurity and network operations, IT infrastructure modernization, and enterprise AI solutions. Representative recent work includes a $145.6 million hybrid fixed-price and gainsharing delivery order from the Office of the Chief Information Officer under Alliant II for custom application development and integration (July 2026); a $255.4 million labor-hour delivery order from the Defense Information Systems Agency for Tier II desk-side and remote support on the Multiple Award Schedule through June 2031; a $218.1 million cost-plus-award-fee Army Metering Program support delivery order under the Total Engineering and Integration Services IV (TEIS) at Fort Huachuca, Arizona; a $178.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from Army Cyber Command for Department of Defense Information Network cybersecurity and network operations under ITES-3S; and a $45.6 million Defense Health Agency Local Area Network and Wireless Local Area Network modernization project spanning hardware procurement, installation, and systems integration under TEIS. Across these major awards, Empower AI engages subcontractors including Peregrine Technical Solutions (an 8(a) Alaskan Native Corporation), QBE LLC, Government Acquisitions Inc. (HUBZone), Wildflower International (woman-owned, HUBZone), Semper Valens Solutions (SDVOSB), and CACI IDT, demonstrating a pattern of teaming with small business and specialized defense firms.

Customer concentration by potential value skews toward GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($92.15 billion across 59 awards) and Department of Air Force Air Education and Training Command ($7.94 billion across 86 awards), reflecting Empower AI's strength on government-wide vehicles; concentration by award count centers on Department of Army Cyber Command (291 awards, $898.2 million) and Department of Air Force (269 awards, $26.7 million), indicating deep integration into Army and Air Force operations. The divergence signals a vendor anchored to large GWAC and IDIQ vehicles at GSA and Army Commands while placing volume through smaller task orders across the Air Force.

Empower AI holds seats on four named government-wide and major Army vehicles: Alliant 3 GWAC (multiple-award, no dollar ceiling specified in the source, performance through March 2036); OASIS+ Unrestricted IDIQ (no dollar ceiling specified, through December 2029); the $50 million Acquisition Modernization Technology Research (AMTR) IDIQ with Department of Defense Troop Support (single-award, September 2024–September 2029, two $25,000 task orders issued to date under the EMPOWER AI Working Group); and the $800 million Total Engineering and Integration Services IV (TEIS) with Army Communications-Electronics Command (multiple-award, nine delivery orders totaling approximately $497.3 million executed through November 2026). Top parent vehicles by task-order volume reflect broader GSA and Army demand: Network-Centric Solutions (662 task orders, $2.49 billion), Federal Supply Schedule GS35F4014G (292 task orders, $226.2 million), and Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - 2 Services (212 task orders, $1.01 billion).

Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years (nine awards in 2022, five in 2023, ten in 2024, five in 2025), with twelve awards (combined potential value $654.7 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete exposure. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue has declined modestly from $170.1 million across 1,080 FTEs in FY2022 to $159.2 million across 910 FTEs in FY2024, suggesting slight workforce contraction on federal services labor while maintaining delivery scale. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates run a median of $88.01 per hour, with a 10th-percentile floor of $29.00 per hour and a 90th-percentile ceiling of $137.76 per hour, indicating a labor portfolio spanning entry-level technical roles (warehouse specialist, technician II at $31–$57/hr) through senior engineering and subject-matter-expert roles (information engineer, senior consultant at $128–$249/hr). On federal services contracts captured in SCI, subcontractors account for an average of 18 percent of contractor hours across 134 named subcontractors, indicating a vendor that builds a significant portion of delivery internally while leveraging specialized subs for discrete IT, hardware procurement, and cybersecurity work streams.

Empower AI's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 417 active categories ranging from $31.11 to $248.82 per hour, with education requirements from high school through bachelor's degree and no security-cleared positions offered. The company holds a subsidiary, Karta Technologies Inc., which appears in corporate filings but carries no explicit capability distinction in the award record. The vendor competes exclusively full-and-open with no small-business set-aside activity despite HUBZone certification, positioning it as a qualified large-business prime on competitive vehicles while maintaining a teaming posture with small and minority-owned subcontractors on task orders serving cybersecurity, infrastructure modernization, and AI research initiatives across Army, Air Force, GSA, and civilian agencies.

Enterprise Systems Management, Information Assurance, Network Engineering, and Systems Development and Integration.