Sherpa 6 Inc.

Sherpa 6 Inc., headquartered in Littleton, Colorado, is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) and minority-owned (Black American owned) for-profit corporation that delivers artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital situational awareness, systems integration, and advanced analytics solutions to the Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor (80% of recent awards) and selective subcontractor. The company holds dual SBA certifications as both a Veteran-Owned Small Business and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (both expiring August 10, 2027) and competes across unrestricted competition, set-aside, and SBIR vehicles.

Sherpa 6's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Army and Army-subordinate commands. The top five funding entities account for 68% of recent awards by count but 100% of combined potential value, led by the Federal Aviation Administration's $1 billion EFAST blanket purchase agreement (single-award, ultimate completion September 2024), the Department of the Army with 6 awards totaling $104 million in potential value, the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command with 4 awards ($70.7 million), and PEO Command Control Communications-Tactical with 2 awards ($52.2 million). The FAA BPA dominates the potential-value ranking but is past its performance period; excluding it, Army-focused work comprises the substantive pipeline.

Representative prime capability work includes a $49.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with the Army (awarded September 2025, ultimate completion September 2029) for Soldier Human Interface and Enhanced Lethality Deployment; a $49.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with the Army for research and development of a Soldier Information Portrayal Software System (awarded February 2024, ultimate completion December 2027); a $48.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with PEO C3T for Ground Soldier Technology Workflow, Integration, and Experience (GS-TWIX) tasks (awarded February 2023, ultimate completion February 2027); and a $2 million SBIR Phase II direct-to-phase-II award from the Army on XTechOverwatch Topic A254-P030 (awarded January 2026, ultimate completion July 2027). The company also holds a newly awarded $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ under the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program (awarded December 2025, ultimate completion December 2035), unrestricted competition, supporting multi-domain defense, cybersecurity modernization, and digital engineering.

Sherpa 6 holds positions on three active government-wide vehicles: the OASIS+ Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business IDIQ (GSA, September 2024 through September 2029, no specified ceiling), from which the Office of the Secretary of Defense issued a $3.7 million delivery order for rotary-wing inflight communications packages (December 2025, ultimate completion December 2028); the SHIELD IDIQ noted above; and the ASTRO vehicle (2 task orders, no specific value stated). The company also held a single-award Federal Aviation Administration blanket purchase agreement for the EFAST program valued at $1 billion through September 2024.

Activity has grown from 2 awards each in 2022 and 2023 to 6 awards in 2024 and 7 in 2025, with 3 awards recorded in the first five months of 2026. Six awards with combined potential value of $117.6 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore confront recompete risk. SCI-reported invoicing from prime service contracts shows $4.1 million in FY2022 across 14.2 FTEs and $7.3 million in FY2023 across 20.4 FTEs, with zero invoicing recorded in FY2024; government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts range from $142.77/hr at the tenth percentile to $167.80/hr at the ninetieth percentile, with a median of $155.28/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Sherpa 6 self-performed all reported labor with no subcontractor hours, reflecting a 0% sub-hours share.

In its subcontractor role, Sherpa 6 delivers engineering, development, integration, and technology-based solutions to Booz Allen Hamilton on two named awards (November 2025 and June 2024) covering protective solutions and dismounted-soldier capabilities; it performs automated threat recognition and cataloging work under Kitware Inc. (January 2025, ARC-TAK project for pattern-of-life analysis); and it has subcontracted to Applied Research Associates Inc. (March 2022) and Black River Systems Company Inc. (November 2021) on technical delivery and OCOSA support respectively. The portfolio is dominated by applied research and experimental development work (primary NAICS 541711, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences; primary PSCs covering National Defense R&D Services, Applied Research and Experimental Development).

Sherpa 6 offers a full range of systems engineering capabilities and expertise that include system architecture, design, development, and integration. We have experience with variety of systems including image processing, advanced signals intelligence sensor integration, robotics, and dismounted Soldier systems.

Simplifying the development process, standardizing tasks and delivering ready-to-use features through the development of powerful backend services.

Sherpa 6 supports Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), working directly with existing applications such as ATAK to provide robust field support, management and updates. Our proprietary mobile device management solution, Watchtower, utilizes software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) to enhance user experience through reliable and secure at-the-edge cloud computing. We support and develop for multiple platforms including Android, iOS, Windows, HTML5 and more.