Federal contractor · VIENNA, VA

CIPHER TECH SOLUTIONS INC

CIPHER TECH SOLUTIONS INC received $2.1M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−62% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $41.9M. Its largest customer was U.S. Special Operations Command ($2.1M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2.1M
New awards
2
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 250KFY2019
  2. 4.4MFY2020
  3. 4.4MFY2021
  4. 8.2MFY2022
  5. 5.3MFY2023
  6. 11.7MFY2024
  7. 5.5MFY2025
  8. 2.1MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. U.S. Special Operations Command$2.1M100%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Army$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$2.1M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Hillsborough County, FL$2.1M100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $2.1M
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $2.1M
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. U.S. Special Operations Command$2.1M
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. TECHEX BRIDGE CONTRACT$2.3M
    U.S. Special Operations Command· Hillsborough County, FL· IT & telecom· Feb 13, 2026 – May 14, 2026· H9240026CE001
  2. THIS TASK ORDER IS FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF DRIVE ZERO, WHICH IS DATA COLLECTION SOFTWARE.$1.6M
    Department of the Army· Fairfax County, VA· Research & development· Mar 25, 2025 – Mar 23, 2026· W911SR25F0022

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $93.8M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $3.3M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · -$1.2M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $32.9M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

3 companies · $128.8M reported

  1. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$95.8M
    FORT WORTH, TX · 13 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
  2. PERATON INC.$32.9M
    HERNDON, VA · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services
  3. BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC$43.4K
    IDAHO FALLS, ID · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. OCCAM SOLUTIONS, INC.$15.1M−73% in FY2026
    HERNDON, VA · 83% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Special Operations Command · Computer systems design and related servicesArmy · Computer systems design and related services
  2. MERLIN LABS INC$16M−100% in FY2026
    BOSTON, MA · 78% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Special Operations Command · Computer systems design and related services
  3. IT CONSULTING PARTNERS, LLC$12.4M−100% in FY2026
    JACKSON, WY · 64% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Special Operations Command · Computer systems design and related services

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • Cipher Tech SolutionsAI match · 97%
Lobbying · 2025
$90K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$310K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$90K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$90K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$90K
    4 reports
  4. 2026$40K
    3 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense15 reports

Who was contacted

  1. Defense - Dept of (DOD)15 reports
  2. Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)15 reports
  3. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES6 reports
  4. U.S. SENATE6 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. The Consilio Group$270K
    13 reports
  2. Ervin Graves Strategy Group, LLC$40K
    2 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: AI name judgments (entity-match@1, jev-1.13.0), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.