Federal contractor · ASHBURN, VA

CYPHER, LLC

CYPHER, LLC received $4.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (+43% vs FY2025). Since FY2020: $20M. Its largest customer was Federal Aviation Administration ($3.6M).

Obligations · FY2026
$4.8M
New awards
6
Sole-source
76%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
CYPHER LLC
Small businessVeteran-ownedService-disabled veteran-ownedMinority-owned8(a) program
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.9MFY2020
  2. 1.7MFY2021
  3. 2.2MFY2022
  4. 2.7MFY2023
  5. 3.3MFY2024
  6. 3.4MFY2025
  7. 4.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Aviation Administration$3.6M75%
    3 awards
  2. Federal Transit Administration$1.2M25%
    2 awards
  3. Department of the Navy$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$4.8M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia, DC$3.7M76%
  2. Loudoun County, VA$1.2M24%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition75%
    US 39% · $3.6M
  • Sole-source awards76%
    US 30% · $3.7M
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · -$33K
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. WEB-BASED APPLICATION TOOLS SUPPORT SERVICES$8.7M
    Federal Aviation Administration· Loudoun County, VA· Professional services· May 14, 2020 – Nov 24, 2025· 693KA920F00114
  2. EFAST PA 25-037-NV WEB BASED APPLICATION TOOLS$3.2M
    Federal Aviation Administration· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Aug 4, 2025 – Sep 8, 2026· 693KA925F00107
  3. EFAST PA 25-042-N8, ANG-A MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT$2.2M
    Federal Aviation Administration· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Jan 8, 2025 – Sep 1, 2026· 693KA925F00008
  4. THE PURPOSE OF THIS NEW TASK ORDER IS FOR SMS- SAFETY POLICY, RISK MANAGEMENT, AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR CYPHER, LLC. UNDER CONTRACT NO. 69319522D000013 TASK ORDER NO. 69319524F40012N.$1.3M
    Federal Transit Administration· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 20, 2024 – Mar 26, 2026· 69319524F40012N
  5. ISSUE A TASK ORDER FOR TSO-10 - SAFETY PROMOTION, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND OUTREACH SUPPORT$1.2M
    Federal Transit Administration· Loudoun County, VA· Professional services· Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· 69319526F30091N
  6. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CONTRACTOR SUPPORT SERVICES$644.8K
    Department of the Navy· Loudoun County, VA· Professional services· Sep 25, 2025 – Nov 5, 2025· N6833525C0694

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

  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $4M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $5.2M 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

1 company · $9.2M reported

  1. SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION$9.2M
    RESTON, VA · 3 subawards · 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 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. BELLAMY MANAGEMENT SERVICES LLC$7.8M+32% in FY2026
    WASHINGTON, DC · 68% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Aviation Administration · Computer systems design and related services
  2. MAR-TIC JV$9.8M−97% in FY2026
    BETHESDA, MD · 68% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Aviation Administration · Computer systems design and related services
  3. OBJECTSTREAM INC$10.6M+5.1% in FY2026
    OKLAHOMA CITY, OK · 68% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Aviation Administration · Computer systems design and related services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

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

  • Cypher, LLCAI match · 99%
Lobbying · 2025
$100K
3 reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2025$100K
    3 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense3 reports

Who was contacted

  1. Defense - Dept of (DOD)3 reports
  2. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES3 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. HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP$100K
    3 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.