Raft LLC

Raft LLC, doing business as Healthstar Informatics, is an SBA-certified Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business headquartered in McLean, Virginia that delivers cloud engineering, DevSecOps, software development, data analytics, and enterprise digital transformation services to federal defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards). The company holds concurrent 8(a) program certifications and competes across both full-and-open and set-aside vehicles, though the majority of recent prime work carries no set-aside designation.

Raft's award footprint spans 84 recent awards with a combined potential value of $49.21 billion, concentrated heavily in large indefinite delivery vehicles. The top five customer agencies by potential value account for 97% of combined potential, with NASA anchoring the portfolio through two SEWP VI GWAC awards ($40 billion ceiling combined), Naval Sea Systems Command through the SeaPort-NXG IDIQ ($4 billion), the Department of the Air Force ($2.55 billion across 17 awards), the Space and Missile Systems Center ($918.1 million), and the Office of the Secretary of Defense ($251 million). By award count, the Department of the Air Force leads with 17 awards, followed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (13 awards, $233.4 million), Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (11 awards, $69.7 million), AbilityOne (5 awards, $2.3 million), and Air Education and Training Command (5 awards, $53.3 million). Civilian agency work is heavily concentrated at CFPB around regulatory technology and data analytics for mortgage disclosure and small business lending initiatives.

Raft holds a multi-billion-dollar vehicle portfolio spanning multiple contracting mechanisms. The Air Force SBIR Phase III single-award IDIQ ($349.2 million ceiling) anchors Special Operations Forces data work and cloud services through delivery orders including the BLACK LABEL initiative ($33.2 million, awarded January 2026, performing in San Antonio through September 2030) and the SOF Data Layer task order ($39.8 million, awarded November 2025, performing in Tampa through October 2030). The Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ ($151 billion ceiling, awarded December 2025) establishes a comprehensive defense modernization vehicle across missile, cyber, and space domains. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency awarded an $800 million multiple-award BPA for National Background Investigation Services system modernization software engineering (October 2025, through July 2030). Naval Sea Systems Command's SeaPort-NXG IDIQ ($4 billion ceiling, multiple award, awarded January 2025, through January 2029) positions Raft for rapid Navy systems command task ordering. NASA awarded Raft two SEWP VI GWACs on November 1, 2026 — a $20 billion partial small business set-aside and a $20 billion total small business set-aside — providing government-wide access to Raft's IT product and service solutions across communication, audio-visual, and application development domains. On the civilian side, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau maintains two single-award BPAs under GSA MAS: a $100 million Competitive 8(a) Regulatory Technology Support Services BPA (January 2023–January 2027) and a $100 million Total Small Business Design, Development, Content, and Marketing Services BPA (February 2023–February 2028). Through the MAS vehicle, Raft has issued 28 delivery orders totaling $311.6 million combined potential value.

Representative recent prime work includes a $2.178 million delivery order from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for Home Mortgage Disclosure Act consolidated contract support (September 2026, through April 2027, performing in West McLean under MAS), a $10.0 million Department of Health and Human Services delivery order for TANF Data Portal IT professional services set aside for Woman-Owned Small Business (August 2024, through December 2029), a $28.8 million Air Education and Training Command delivery order for UPDM DATA II supporting U.S. Cyber Command unified platform infrastructure (March 2024, through September 2027, performing in San Antonio, Woman-Owned Small Business set-aside), and a $17.5 million Air Force Life Cycle Management Center delivery order for Development Security Operations Platform follow-on (September 2022, through November 2025, Total Small Business set-aside). Earlier awards include a $59.7 million Air Force Research Laboratory delivery order for ABMS CBC2 Communications Broker services (February 2023, through August 2028), a $132.3 million Air Force delivery order for Enterprise Developer/Designer Operational Requirement (ENDOR) services (June 2022–December 2026, time and materials, self-performed), and a $58.2 million CFPB BPA call for small business lending support (February 2023–February 2026). Raft also holds a $900 million Space System Command Data Services IDIQ (April 2023–March 2029) for space and missile system data software services and a $900 million Air Force Life Cycle Management Center multiple-award IDIQ for capability development and systems engineering (December 2022–November 2027).

Award volume has remained relatively stable over the last five years — 12 awards in 2022, 15 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 12 in 2025, and 8 in 2026 — though dollar magnitude has grown substantially through large vehicle wins. Ten awards with combined potential value of $303.5 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete opportunity. Recent activity includes Other Transaction Authority awards: a $1.97 million Office of the Secretary of Defense ODT for computer vision platform development (August 2025) and a $975,000 USAF DFAS OTA for integrated space attack planning toolkit (June 2026). The Basic Ordering Agreement with Office of the Secretary of Defense for AI TALENT 2.0 ($249 million ceiling, June 2023–May 2028) carries multiple task orders totaling $413.9 million combined potential value.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue for prime records totals $5.5 million in FY2022 only, with no SCI-reportable invoicing in FY2023–2025, indicating that most of Raft's federal work either falls below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold, is priced as fixed-fee delivery orders (which do not generate reportable labor invoicing), or involves classified work. FY2022 SCI activity shows 18.4 FTEs across reportable contracts; subsequent years show sporadic FTE reporting (7.5 FTEs in FY2024, 9.5 in FY2025) against 13 and 11 prime records respectively, consistent with firm fixed-price delivery order structures. On SCI-reportable prime contracts where labor invoicing did occur, median government-paid rates ran around $289.94/hr with a 10th percentile of $91.05/hr and 90th percentile of $423.60/hr. Across SCI records, Raft self-performed 100% of reported labor with no subcontractor hours share on prime contracts. GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 44 unique categories with rates from $77.10/hr (Systems Administrator I, bachelor's, no clearance) through $331.25/hr (Cloud IT SME, bachelor's plus 15 years experience, no clearance required). Senior roles price in the $200–$331 range, mid-level technical roles in the $137–$182 range, and entry-level system roles around $77–$115/hr; no security-cleared labor categories are offered on the Schedule.

Raft competes predominantly as a prime contractor in full-and-open and set-aside (8(a) and woman-owned small business) vehicles across a diverse federal customer base. The vendor engages minimal subcontractors on its prime work; SCI data shows 0% sub-hours share on prime labor. Recent sub-award activity includes engineering support on the Advanced Battle Management System DBMN Phase II under Science Applications International Corporation (July 2024), tactical exploitation services as a subcontractor to SAIC (July 2025), and DevSecOps ecosystem support under an unnamed prime (January 2025). Raft maintains a subsidiary, N3Bula Systems LLC, which holds self-certified small disadvantaged business and service-disabled veteran-owned business designations; the source does not articulate a distinct operational role for the subsidiary within Raft's federal footprint. Raft's capability portfolio centers on custom computer programming services (50 awards in NAICS 541512), research and development in physical and engineering sciences (22 awards), and application development support labor services, delivering both fixed-price platform and infrastructure work and labor-hour cloud engineering, data analytics, and DevSecOps teams to defense and civilian agencies.

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