Dark Wolf Solutions, LLC

Dark Wolf Solutions, LLC, a Herndon, Virginia-based for-profit limited liability company, delivers advanced cybersecurity, software development, and information technology services to the Department of Defense and intelligence community as a prime contractor on 76% of its recent awards, competing predominantly on full-and-open basis with no recurring set-aside designation. The vendor is a small business operating a portfolio anchored by large indefinite-delivery vehicles and definitive contracts spanning cyber innovation, emerging-technology assessment, software development, and prototype research.

Dark Wolf's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Air Force and Office of the Secretary of Defense programs. The top five funding agencies account for 74% of combined potential value across all awards: the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command ($378.4 million combined potential value from 4 awards), the Office of the Secretary of Defense ($300.6 million from 7 awards), the Air Force Headquarters District Washington ($171.8 million from 12 awards), the Air Force across all components ($112.9 million from 26 awards), and the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center ($78.8 million from 15 awards). When ranked by award count, the Air Force and its subordinate commands dominate: 73 of the vendor's 143 recent awards are Air Force-funded, representing 51% of the award population. The two rankings converge on Air Force concentration but diverge sharply on dollar magnitude — Naval Warfare's four awards carry an outsized $378.4 million potential value, driven by a single $200 million software-development indefinite-delivery contract awarded July 2023.

Dark Wolf holds multiple anchor vehicles. The $93.75 million Air Force Cyber Innovation Blanket Purchase Agreement (FA701420A0002) has generated 48 task orders totaling $108.6 million in combined potential value — the most prolific single vehicle in the portfolio. A $67.2 million single-award Air Force Cyber Space Innovation IDIQ awarded February 2026 has seeded task orders including a $6.52 million Nebula Core Support delivery order (July 2026) and a $1.79 million DIU cybersecurity innovation order (April 2026). Dark Wolf also holds a $249 million multiple-award Basic Ordering Agreement from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for AI TALENT 2.0 (May 2028 completion), an $94.4 million Other Transaction Agreement with U.S. Special Operations Command for cyber and software delivery (September 2023, through 2026), and a $64.3 million Air Force definitive contract for adversary assessment and penetration testing on GBSD and Sentinel networks (April 2022 through May 2027). Recent definitive contract awards include a $50.37 million Air Education and Training Command SBIR Phase III for cyber innovation (August 2024 through February 2030), a $29.9 million Defense Health Agency delivery order for Operational Medicine Data Services Next Generation (December 2023 through December 2028), and a $9.996 million DEA definitive contract for the DEA Data Den (September 2026 through September 2031). Notably, Dark Wolf was awarded a multi-billion-dollar ceiling multiple-award IDIQ by the Missile Defense Agency on December 2025 for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program; an initial $500 delivery order was placed simultaneously.

Dark Wolf's capability portfolio centers on cyber red teaming, adversary assessment and penetration testing, DevSecOps agile software development, cloud infrastructure at Impact Levels 4 and 5, emerging-technology evaluation and rapid Authorization to Operate (ATO), software quality assurance, systems security, and prototype research and development. The vendor draws from a $59.2 million SCI-reported prime-contract invoicing base across FY2022–FY2025, with dramatic scaling: $1.4 million and 3.3 FTEs in FY2022 to $30.6 million and 85.3 FTEs in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on prime SCI-reportable contracts run a median of $187.93 per hour, with a 10th percentile of $152.38 per hour and a 90th percentile of $215.21 per hour. GSA Schedule labor categories span 71 positions ranging from technical consultants at $97.01 per hour to senior solution architects at $446.60 per hour, all requiring bachelor's degrees with no security-clearance roles offered. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for 4% of total contractor hours on average, with 11 named subs reported, indicating Dark Wolf builds and scales its own delivery teams rather than relying on subcontract networks.

In its subcontractor role, Dark Wolf delivers engineering and DevSecOps support to Booz Allen Hamilton on a Federal Emergency Management Agency Google Cloud Platform modernization (May 2025), Advanced Battle Management System engineering to Science Applications International Corporation on Air Force space and tactical exploitation programs (June 2025, March 2024), cloud and hybrid IT services to Accenture Federal Services (May 2025), cyber-crime support to Peraton Enterprise Solutions for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (April 2025), and applied research on sensing, learning, and autonomy to Applied Research Solutions across multiple awards (January 2023 onwards). Activity has grown year over year from 20 awards in 2022 to 26 in 2023, before declining to 19 in 2024 and 2025. Twelve awards (combined potential value $108.5 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure across the existing prime portfolio. Dark Wolf operates through three subsidiaries: Racktop Systems Inc., Buddobot LLC, and Velocity-X, LLC; the source does not identify their functional roles within the corporate structure.

Dark Wolf competes full-and-open across all customer agencies, with no recurring set-aside designations or socioeconomic certifications driving its prime footprint. The vendor's posture is that of a small-business technology contractor executing large federal R&D, software development, and cybersecurity programs through indefinite-delivery vehicles, definitive contracts, and SBIR Phase III work orders anchored in the Air Force, Defense Department, and Navy customer base. The recent trajectory shows rapid headcount and revenue scaling on the back of large IDV vehicles and multi-year prime contracts, with execution concentrated in Herndon, Virginia and subordinate performance at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, and other DoD installations across CONUS and classified facilities.