Accelint AI, LLC

Accelint AI, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, operates as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards) delivering artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and software engineering services to defense and federal research agencies with no set-aside posture—competing full and open on SBIR/STTR phase programs and advanced research vehicles. The vendor holds Soar Technology, LLC as a named subsidiary, also based in Ann Arbor, which carries substantial independent federal award history in human-machine teaming, cognitive AI, and training simulation.

Accelint AI's customer footprint concentrates heavily in defense R&D. The top five funding agencies account for 64% of recent awards by count: the Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research (64 awards, $55.7 million combined potential value), the Naval Air Warfare Center (55 awards, $146.7 million), the Air Force Research Laboratory (54 awards, $16.8 million), the Army Research Development and Engineering Command (33 awards, $29.4 million), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (24 awards, $66.4 million). Potential-value ranking diverges sharply from volume: the Department of the Air Force anchors $951.3 million across six awards, dominated by the Advanced Battle Management System vehicle ($950 million ceiling) awarded to Soar Technology. Naval Air Warfare Center remains second at $146.7 million, reflecting a consistent stream of SBIR/STTR phase awards. This concentration signals heavy exposure to small-business research set-asides and long-cycle R&D vehicles rather than production contracts.

Accelint AI holds or shares positions on multiple federal vehicles. On Soar Technology's holdings: a $900 million multiple-award IDIQ with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (Architecture and Integration Directorate), awarded December 2022, which develops multi-domain systems capabilities and rapid prototyping for the Air Force; a $951 million Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) contract with the Department of the Air Force for advanced systems engineering and simulation across multi-domain operations; and a $151 billion multiple-award Missile Defense Agency SHIELD contract (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense), awarded December 2025, spanning ten years through 2035, which covers research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, and modernization across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid defense domains. Additionally, Accelint AI itself holds a $16.8 million single-award IDIQ with the Naval Air Warfare Center, awarded March 2026, for SBIR Phase III acceleration of content curriculum development supporting Navy fleet training through March 2031, and a $3.56 million DARPA Other Transaction multiple-award IDV (Rapid Experimental Missionized Autonomy, or REMA), awarded December 2023, for autonomous operation subsystems on unmanned aerial vehicles.

Activity trajectory shows consolidation and maturation. Awards per year declined from 21 in 2022 to 4 in 2024 and 2025, and only 2 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date; this reflects a shift from volume small-business research awards to larger, longer-cycle programs that bundle multiple phases under single ceiling contracts rather than sequential SBIR Phase I–II–III awards. Combined potential value across the portfolio is $2.25 billion, with only $334.9 million (15%) obligated, indicating substantial backlog in unexercised IDIQ and indefinite-delivery capacity. Two awards face completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $70 million, but this modest recompete exposure masks the vendor's strategic position on long-duration vehicles: the SHIELD IDIQ and ABMS contract alone extend through 2035, providing ten-year runways that insulate the core business from near-term recompete pressure.

Accelint AI's capability portfolio centers on cognitive artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, human-machine teaming, adaptive training simulation, and behavioral modeling for warfighter and fleet applications. Representative contract work includes a $9.996 million Army Research Development and Engineering Command definitive contract (December 2023 through December 2028) for artificial intelligence for modeling and simulation supporting soldier protection and performance optimization; a $68.7 million Naval Air Warfare Center definitive contract (September 2022 through November 2026) for content curriculum acceleration and mission-essential training, with TECH Wizards, Inc. and CACI, Inc. - Federal named as subcontractors; a $6.221 million DARPA OP TEMPO Phase 1 contract (September 2024 through June 2026) for computational models to predict team effectiveness based on bio-behavioral signatures; and a $2.687 million Office of Naval Research STTR Phase III contract (November 2025 through May 2026) for leadership assessment research and development. Subsidiary Soar Technology's named work includes a $7.013 million DARPA "IN THE MOMENT" cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for technology research, a $2.66 million Naval Air Warfare Center STTR Phase III for parachute descent trainers, and numerous SBIR Phase I and Phase II awards spanning $150 thousand to $1.49 million across Navy, Air Force, and DARPA focused on virtual agents, autonomous systems, and intelligent assistants.

SCI activity is minimal and historically sparse. The service-contract-inventory dataset captures only 7 records (4 prime, 3 subcontractor) across FY2022–FY2024, with zero invoiced revenue reported under prime records, reflecting the vendor's focus on research contracts (which report differently under federal accounting) rather than service delivery above the $150,000 SCI threshold. Recorded FTEs show 3.2 in FY2022, zero in FY2023, and 1.9 in FY2024—too small and inconsistent to characterize workforce scale. The SCI dataset does not reflect the vendor's true federal footprint; the $2.25 billion in potential value across 358 awards dwarfs any service-contract invoicing, indicating that Accelint AI and Soar Technology operate predominantly as research contractors and IDV holders rather than service-contract performers.

Accelint AI operates as a prime on 94% of awards and subcontracts on 6%, indicating a self-delivery posture with selective use of subs. Named subcontractor relationships include work under Peraton Inc. on manpower, personnel, training, and education (July 2025), under Bowhead Professional and Technical Solutions on flight environment installation and training services (October 2024), and under Black River Systems Company on OCOSA support (November 2021). These relationships are ad-hoc rather than strategic; the vendor brings its own delivery teams to its SBIR, STTR, and R&D programs rather than feeding a larger ecosystem. Soar Technology appears as a named sub-recipient on a Henry M. Jackson Foundation global health engagement grant (February 2024) focused on machine-learning solutions for warfighter healthcare data curation and analysis.

The vendor's footprint concentrates overwhelmingly in small-business research programs (SBIR Phase I through Phase III, STTR Phase I through Phase III) and advanced technology development vehicles with no set-aside restrictions. Of the top five customer agencies by award count, four (Navy ONR, Naval Air Warfare Center, Air Force Research Laboratory, Army RDECOM) award predominantly through SBIR/STTR mechanisms. DARPA ranks fifth by count but second by potential value through large, full-and-open research awards. Primary NAICS codes reflect this: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences dominates with 152 awards, followed by 120 awards in the same domain under a variant definition. Accelint AI competes with no characteristic set-aside designation; its market position rests on technical strength in small-business research innovation and the subsidiary's established position on billion-dollar multi-year platforms.

Application of advanced artificial intelligence, scientific principles of human-system interaction and expert software engineering to build cognitive systems, automate complex knowledge-intensive tasks or simulate human behavior