Trusted Science And Technology, Inc.

Trusted Science And Technology, Inc., headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business that delivers advanced research, engineering, and technology development services to defense and intelligence agencies as a prime contractor on 90% of its recent federal awards. The vendor competes exclusively under total small business set-asides across its contract portfolio, with concentrations in cybersecurity, hardware security evaluation, cryptographic engineering, embedded systems security, formal verification, robotics, and autonomous systems — capabilities grounded in a recurring pattern of SBIR and STTR Phase I and Phase II awards from DARPA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Army, the Navy, and the Department of Homeland Security.

DARPA dominates Trusted Science And Technology's customer base, funding 12 awards valued at $20.2 million combined potential value — approximately 68% of the vendor's total federal award footprint by dollars. The Air Force Research Laboratory follows with 8 awards valued at $3.8 million, while the Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command, and the Office of Naval Research account for the remaining 6 awards at $2.5 million, $1.5 million, and $480 thousand respectively. The vendor's top five customers represent 98% of combined potential value.

Recent contract work exemplifies the vendor's R&D focus. In April 2026, the Department of the Army awarded Trusted Science And Technology a $2 million definitive contract for a ruggedized edge node for multi-modal AI processing, with performance in Rockville and completion by October 2027. In March 2025, DARPA awarded a $1.798 million firm fixed-price contract for cyber vulnerability assessment via semantic reasoning and tiered visualization (CELESTE), placing performance in Fairfax, Virginia and completion by March 2027. In February 2024, DARPA awarded a $2.93 million SBIR Phase II contract for COLOSSEUM — cryptographic engineering with large simulation and emulation — with performance in Fairfax and completion by November 2026. Additional work includes a $1.62 million DARPA SBIR Phase II effort (November 2023 award), a $1 million DHS Phase II SBIR contract for hardware-assisted cyber attack detection (April 2024), and a $749 thousand Air Force Research Laboratory STTR Phase II contract for satellite security and resilience (ESPRESSO, September 2023).

Trusted Science And Technology holds the Intelligence Generation of Tools for Security (INGOTS) Other Transaction Indefinite Delivery Vehicle awarded by DARPA on January 31, 2025, with a $4.65 million ceiling. This multiple-award OTA framework is structured to generate task orders for hardware security, threat detection, cryptographic engineering, and formal verification work aligned with the vendor's prior DARPA programs. The vendor does not sit on federal GWACs, agency-wide IDIQs, or GSA Schedules in the source data.

Activity has grown from 2 awards in 2022 to a peak of 8 awards in 2024, with moderation to 4 awards in 2025 and 2 awards in 2026 year-to-date. Five awards (combined potential value $8.4 million) carry ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete exposure. The vendor operates as a prime on 90% of awards and subcontracts on the remaining 10% — three sub-awards to Two Six Labs, Smart Information Flow Technologies, and Georgia Tech Research Corp on DARPA-funded efforts supporting network detection, software capability transition, and formal verification programs. SCI-reportable invoicing in FY2024 totaled $332 thousand across 0.6 FTEs on a single prime contract, with government-paid rates running $277.16 per hour; this SCI figure captures only federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes the vendor's R&D contract revenue stream, which dominates the footprint.

In May 2026, the Office of Naval Research awarded Trusted Science And Technology a $382 thousand grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) for rigorous, language-agnostic recovery of software intent, with work to be performed in Rockville and completion by April 2028. This represents the vendor's sole grant award in the source data.

Research and development on cyber security, embedded system security, software assurance and network/communication design/analysis