Precision Federal is pursuing opportunities at OSD SCO
Precision Federal is positioned to engage the Office of the Secretary of Defense — Strategic Capabilities Office across SBIR Direct-to-Phase-II solicitations, Broad Agency Announcements, and Other Transaction Authority vehicles. SCO is an OSD-level rapid-capability office, established in 2012, whose explicit mandate is the opposite of DARPA's: rather than long-horizon basic research, SCO identifies disruptive applications of new systems, unconventional uses of existing systems, and emerging-technology integrations that can be fielded in roughly three to five years to address high-priority operational and strategic problems. We are actively pursuing topic OSW26BZ01-DV002 in the DoD 26.BX/BZ/TZ Release 1 cycle.
Precision Delivery Federal LLC (UEI Y2JVCZXT9HP5, CAGE 1AYQ0, NAICS 541512) is SAM-registered, DSIP-active, and structured to engage SCO as prime on small SBIR-style efforts and as AI/ML/data-engineering subcontractor on larger SCO performer teams. The company is led by a Kaggle Top 200 data scientist with founder prior delivery of production federal ML through full ATO at a federal health agency. SCO performer teams routinely need exactly that combination — somebody who can fuse heterogeneous sensor and system feeds, ship the prototype on cloud at speed, and survive an operational hand-off to a service component.
How SCO is different from DARPA, DIU, and the services
SCO occupies a distinct lane inside the DoD innovation ecosystem. Understanding that lane is the difference between a proposal that lands and one that misses fit:
- SCO vs. DARPA — DARPA pursues high-risk basic and applied research on a five-to-ten-year horizon. SCO works the opposite end of the curve: take systems and components that already exist, find the unconventional combination that produces a new operational effect, and deliver in three to five years. DARPA invents the technology; SCO fields the capability.
- SCO vs. DIU — DIU sources commercial dual-use products under Commercial Solutions Openings, often at sixty-to-ninety-day award cadence. SCO works deeper inside the DoD stack — fusing classified and unclassified DoD-owned systems with newer software — and runs efforts that are typically larger and longer than DIU CSO awards.
- SCO vs. the services — Army, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force programs of record optimize for sustainment of fielded platforms. SCO sits outside that calendar, takes the cross-service integration problems no single service is incentivized to solve, and pushes them toward operational use.
SCO has been organizationally repositioned more than once over its history, alternately aligned with DARPA, with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and most recently inside the unified DoD innovation ecosystem under the OSD Chief Technology Officer alongside DIU, DARPA, CDAO, the Test Resource Management Center, and the Office of Strategic Capital. The mission has stayed constant across each move: rapid prototyping and integration of existing capability for near-term warfighter effect.
How SCO contracting actually works
SCO's contracting toolkit is broader than the average service program office. Three vehicles dominate:
- SBIR / STTR via DSIP — SCO releases topics on DSIP under the OSW component prefix. Direct-to-Phase-II (D2P2) is a common path for SCO topics, sized for software prototypes that can transition into a program of record. OSW26BZ01-DV002, a SCO-sponsored D2P2 topic in the DoD 26.BX/BZ/TZ Release 1 window, is the topic Precision Federal is pursuing in this cycle.
- Broad Agency Announcements — SCO has historically issued standing BAAs (publicly visible on SAM.gov) covering disruptive applications, autonomous systems, sensor fusion, advanced cyber, and human-machine teaming. These run alongside the SBIR pipeline and accept white papers on a rolling basis.
- Other Transaction Authority — for non-traditional performers and rapid-prototyping efforts where FAR-based contracting is too slow, SCO routinely uses OTAs. Many SCO efforts run through consortium OTAs that bundle small businesses, academia, and primes onto a single performer team.
Funding stacks. A SCO effort can layer SBIR seed dollars, program-of-record budget contributed by the partnering service or COCOM, and OTA execution authority — which is part of why SCO can move from concept to fielded prototype faster than a single-source service program.
Mission areas we map to
SCO Mission Area — Pursuit Priority for Precision Federal
Sensor & data fusion
SCO's enduring problem is fusing heterogeneous DoD sensor outputs (and increasingly licensed commercial feeds) into a single operationally-usable picture. Our data engineering practice — lakehouse with provenance, vendor-sandboxed ingest, governed analytics, multi-classification handling — maps directly.
Autonomous systems integration
SCO routinely connects autonomous platforms across services. We bring the software glue: agentic AI for human-on-the-loop control, mission-data-system integration, and the ML inference layers that sit above existing autonomy stacks. See Agentic AI.
Decision support for joint operations
SCO efforts have a long history in joint-mission decision aids. Our LLM and ML engineering practice produces auditable, source-attributed recommendations — the kind operators can actually trust under scrutiny.
Space domain awareness
Our active SCO pursuit is in the SDA mission area: scalable software fusion of commercial and government space-tracking feeds. The capability fit covers cloud-scale catalog tracking, graph-neural-network association, and explainable operator UI.
OSW26BZ01-DV002 — what we're pursuing in this cycle
SCO is sponsoring a Direct-to-Phase-II SBIR topic in the 26.BX/BZ/TZ Release 1 window for scalable tracking of proliferated-LEO constellations and debris. The 18th Space Defense Squadron's catalog crossed roughly 47,800 objects in 2025 and must absorb additional Starlink, Kuiper, and SDA Tranche population — a step-change in load on fixed operator headcount. Precision Federal is proposing PRECISION-TRACK: a cloud-native, ML-augmented fusion engine that ingests commercial SSA data feeds (radar, optical, photometry) and government UDL data, runs a graph-neural-network track-association layer designed for O(N log N) scaling instead of classical O(N²), classifies debris through a transformer over heterogeneous time series, and publishes fused tracks back to the Unified Data Library via CCSDS CDM/OMM. Phase III transition targets include SSC Delta 2, USSPACECOM J3/J5, NASA CARA, and the Office of Space Commerce TraCSS. The proposal is in active build for the 2026-06-03 close.
Capability map for SCO scope
Sensor and data fusion
multi-source association, vendor-sandboxed ingest, source-attribution provenance, governed analytics across multi-classification streams. See Data Engineering.
Agentic AI / LLM systems
multi-agent orchestration, RAG over technical corpora, tool-calling with human-in-the-loop, prompt-injection hardening for operator-facing systems. See Agentic AI.
Machine learning and data science
graph-neural-network association, transformer time-series classification, adversarial robustness, anomaly detection, explainable operator outputs.
Cloud architecture, IL4/IL5
AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, on-premise air-gapped variants. ATO-minded from day one.
DevSecOps and cybersecurity
STIG compliance, NIST SP 800-53 mapping, zero-trust per NIST SP 800-207, SPIFFE/SPIRE identity, prompt-injection hardening for LLM deployments.
Classified-work posture
SCO programs frequently touch classified, SCI, and SAP-controlled systems. Many SCO performers are required to hold a Facility Clearance and produce work in cleared spaces. Precision Federal is pursuing facility clearance through SCO program sponsorship rather than claiming it today. Our published Phase II plan begins unclassified, with classified annexes scoped for Phase III in line with how SCO efforts typically transition. We are also pursuing DD Form 2345 (Joint Certification) for ITAR-controlled technical-data access on Phase II-eligible topics, including the active OSW26BZ01-DV002 pursuit.
Past performance and honest positioning
We will not invent OSD or SCO past performance. Precision Delivery Federal LLC was formed 2026-03-14; the company holds zero corporate past performance. The work below is founder prior delivery at a prior employer, framed honestly as such:
- Federal health agency (HHS) — production ML system on federal health data, through full ATO, real users.
- Federal health IT data platform — lakehouse architecture, governance-first.
- Multi-agency cloud migration — delivered through prior consulting employer.
For SCO specifically we are targeting and pursuing through DSIP SBIR / D2P2, BAAs, OTAs via consortium membership, and subcontractor roles on multi-performer SCO programs. The gap on most SCO performer teams is rarely the research idea — it is the engineer who can take the integration concept through security review, deployment, and operational hand-off. That engineer is us.
Vehicles, NAICS, and engagement
- Primary NAICS 541512 — Computer Systems Design Services. SBA small business.
- Adjacent — 541511, 541519, 541690, 518210, 541715 (R&D).
- SCO vehicles we're positioned for — SCO-sponsored DSIP SBIR / STTR topics under the OSW prefix (D2P2 included), SCO BAAs on SAM.gov, OTAs via consortium membership, and subcontractor roles on multi-performer SCO programs.
If you are an SCO program manager, a service partner integrating an SCO prototype, or a prime performer looking for an AI / ML / data-engineering specialty small business subcontractor with SAM registration and federal-grade founder past performance, email [email protected]. See also SBIR/STTR partnering and Teaming.