Workera Corp.

Workera Corp., a small business based in Palo Alto, California, provides AI-powered skills assessment, digital learning, and workforce development tools to the Department of Defense and federal agencies as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open vehicle awards. The company operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards), with no subcontract footprint in the source data.

Workera's capability portfolio centers on AI-driven competency assessment, customized learning pathways, and career management tools for technical disciplines including data analytics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and operations research. The company delivers these capabilities through software-as-a-service licensing (user content licenses and platform access) and through research and development contracts. Representative work includes a $1.997 million purchase order from the Air Force Research Laboratory (September 2025, Total Small Business set-aside) for benchmarking data analytics, AI, and operations research skills to world-class standards and customizing source-agnostic learning paths; a $1.249 million SBIR Phase II contract from AFRL (August 2024, Total Small Business set-aside) for building AI-powered competency assessment and career management tools for the Air Force's engineering and technical workforce; and a $910,000 delivery order from Air Education and Training Command (June 2026) providing user content licenses supporting the Digital University platform at Randolph Air Force Base.

Customer concentration is tightly clustered within Air Force commands. The top customers by award count and potential value are the Air Force Research Laboratory (7 awards, $5.9 million) and Air Education and Training Command (4 awards, $5.3 million combined potential value), accounting for 88% of recent awards. Workera also places work with the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Randolph AFB ($2.7 million), the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard ($54 thousand), and the Defense Health Agency ($5.2 thousand). The two rankings align completely — AFRL leads in both volume and dollars, followed by AETC.

Workera holds two active indefinite delivery contracts. The primary vehicle is a single-award IDC with Air Education and Training Command (established June 15, 2023, ceiling $2.75 million, performance through June 14, 2026, extended to June 14, 2029 under a follow-on awarded June 15, 2026 with ceiling $2.73 million). Against the original AETC IDC, Workera has placed five task orders totaling $2.6 million combined potential value. A second single-award IDC with the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Randolph AFB (awarded June 15, 2026, ceiling $2.73 million, performance through June 14, 2029) carries one task order valued at $910 thousand.

Activity has been steady but cyclical — three awards in 2022, four in 2023, two in 2024, four in 2025, and two in 2026 — with only two awards (combined potential value $2.9 million) completing within the next twenty-four months. Workera's award portfolio is heavily skewed toward research and development and training delivery under SBIR and direct-award mechanisms; seven of sixteen awards carry Total Small Business set-aside designations, predominantly through AFRL, while the remainder split between full-and-open and single-award IDC delivery orders. The company's primary NAICS concentrations are Computer Training (8 awards) and Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (7 awards), with PSC concentration in National Defense R&D Services and Applied Research (7 awards) and IT and Telecom Business Application SaaS (7 awards).