Dark Wolf Solutions, LLC

Dark Wolf Solutions, LLC, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, is a small-business prime contractor delivering advanced cybersecurity, software development, and information technology services to the Department of Defense, intelligence community, and civilian agencies across full-and-open competition with no recurring set-aside designation. The company competes as a prime on 75% of recent awards (103 of 137 awards tracked) and subcontracts on specialized missions to larger integrators; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subs account for roughly 3% of contractor hours, indicating Dark Wolf builds its own delivery teams rather than relying heavily on subcontracts.

Dark Wolf's customer concentration is heavily weighted to defense and space. The top five funding agencies account for 51% of awards by count but 76% of combined potential value, driven by two enormous IDV ceilings: a $200 million Naval Information Warfare Systems Command single-award IDIQ for software development (awarded July 2023, set-aside for total small business) and a $249 million Office of the Secretary of Defense Basic Ordering Agreement for AI TALENT 2.0 (awarded April 2025, no set-aside). The Air Force ecosystem dominates activity volume—the Air Force as a monolithic entity, plus AFLCMC, Air Combat Command, Air Education and Training Command, District Washington, and Space and Missile Systems Center collectively carry 70 awards valued at $373 million combined potential. The Navy Information Warfare Systems Command anchors the single largest dollar position; OSD comes second. The Department of the Army, Missile Defense Agency, Defense Health Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and smaller customers round out the active set across 33 named agencies.

Dark Wolf's principal vehicle footprint reflects its defense-first posture. The Air Force's Blanket Purchase Agreement FA701420A0002 (Cyber Innovation BPA), valued at $93.75 million, has generated 48 task orders totaling $108.6 million in combined potential value and serves as the vendor's most prolific order vehicle. Dark Wolf also holds a $67.2 million single-award Cyber Space Innovation IDV awarded by the Air Force in February 2026, a $94.4 million Other Transaction Agreement with U.S. Special Operations Command (September 2023), a $2.48 million RAPID OTA with Joint PEO Chemical and Biological Defense (September 2024), a $733 thousand OTA with USSOCOM for product demonstrations (April 2022), and a $99.6 thousand DISR Prototype OTA with the Air Force (July 2025). Beyond defense, Dark Wolf holds a $151 billion multiple-award SHIELD IDIQ with the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 2025, no specified ceiling from the source; placeholder value suppressed), and an Army Basic Ordering Agreement for drone procurement under Executive Order 14307 (January 2026, no dollar ceiling). On the civilian side, Dark Wolf maintains a GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 10 task orders valued at $18.8 million. Alliant II and ASTRO vehicles each carry 7–8 task orders, though dollar magnitudes are not detailed in the source.

Recent capability work spans cybersecurity assessments, cloud infrastructure, adversary red teaming, and emerging-technology evaluation across platforms and security classification levels. Concrete examples include a $60.1 million Air Force definitive contract for adversary assessment and penetration testing for GBSD and Sentinel networks (April 2022 through April 2027, at $205.20/hr blended rate across 28.4 FTEs in FY2024); a $24.65 million Air Combat Command SBIR Phase III definitive contract for cyberspace innovations (May 2025 through April 2030, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska); a $50.37 million Air Education and Training Command DARK WOLF SBIR III definitive contract (August 2024 through February 2030, San Antonio, Texas); and a $29.9 million Defense Health Agency delivery order for Operational Medicine Data Services Next Generation (December 2023 through December 2028, Arlington, Virginia, under total small business set-aside). Dark Wolf also holds a $32 million OSD Proving Grounds prototype OTA (September 2022 through September 2026, Herndon, Virginia) and a $740.5 thousand OTA for the "Transparent Ocean" program with OSD Washington Headquarters Service (December 2025 through December 2027).

Activity has remained relatively flat year-over-year, cycling between 19 and 26 awards annually from 2022 through 2025, with 10 awards captured in the first five months of 2026. However, potential value concentration has shifted markedly: the company has exposure to a $111.3 million recompete cliff within the next twenty-four months (10 awards), though the enormous IDV ceilings awarded in late 2025 and early 2026 (SHIELD, OSD AI TALENT 2.0, Air Force Cyber Space Innovation) substantially reset the forward vehicle position. SCI-reported invoiced revenue from prime service contracts jumped from $1.4 million in FY2022 and $3 million in FY2023 to $24.1 million in FY2024, reflecting scaled-up performance on multi-year definitive contracts and established IDVs; FTEs grew from 3.3 in FY2022 to 6.5 in FY2023 to 63.2 in FY2024, signaling rapid execution ramp-on major awards. Median government-paid rates on SCI-reportable contracts run around $204.55/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching $226.99/hr at the 90th percentile and entry-level technical roles at $143.57/hr. On GSA Schedule, Dark Wolf offers 71 labor categories spanning $97/hr (technical consultant entry level, no clearance required) to $446.60/hr (senior technical consultant, 17 years experience, no clearance required), with no cleared positions listed.

Dark Wolf subcontracts selectively to larger systems integrators on specialized initiatives. Named primes include Booz Allen Hamilton (DevSecOps and PTEMS work for VA and FEMA), Science Applications International Corporation (Advanced Battle Management System, digital transformation, tactical exploitation of national capabilities, Falconer sustainment across multiple task orders), Accenture Federal Services (hybrid cloud IT services), Peraton Enterprise Solutions (DC3 cyber crime support), KBR Wyle Services (IT support), Salient CRGT (labor and IT support across multiple task orders), Technatomy (veteran enterprise module system integration), Charles River Analytics (subject matter expertise on APOGEE), Applied Research Solutions (SLAKE R&D across multiple actions), and Netimpact Strategies (ITIPS and Ektropy II support). This subcontracting pattern reflects Dark Wolf's positioning as a technology delivery specialist that flows into larger prime integrator contracts where the vendor brings domain expertise in cybersecurity, software development, and emerging-technology assessment without carrying full program management or system integration responsibility.

Dark Wolf operates through three named subsidiaries: Racktop Systems Inc. (goods manufacturer), Buddobot LLC, and Velocity-X, LLC, though the source does not describe their operational roles or revenue contribution to the parent. The award data characterize Dark Wolf as a pure-play defense and intelligence technology contractor with specialized depth in cyber red teaming, DevSecOps, and rapid prototyping that competes full-and-open against larger primes and holds a growing portfolio of long-duration IDVs anchoring multi-year execution pipelines.