What we are, first
Precision Federal is an SBIR and STTR firm. That is where the firm was built and it is still the core of the work: competed research and development awards for the Department of War, NASA, and civilian agencies, delivered as production software rather than a study. We hold CAGE 1AYQ0, we are active in SAM.gov, and we are JCP / DD-2345 certified.
Everything below is the same engineering, reached through a different door.
1 · SBIR and STTR
We compete Phase I, Phase II, and Direct-to-Phase-II across DoW components, NASA, DOE, DOT, and other participating agencies. On STTR we partner with university research institutions and carry the required research-institution share. Every proposal we submit is backed by a working prototype built before we ask for a dollar.
2 · STTR with research institutions
If you are a research institution looking for an STTR small-business partner, that is a conversation we welcome. We draft the proposal, the allocation-of-rights agreement, and the submission, and the institution carries the research share.
3 · With partner firms on federal programs
When a program needs more specialties than our core team carries, partner firms join our proposal with defined scope. We agree the workshare before submission, work to one schedule and reporting cadence, and do not require exclusivity. We will tell you plainly when a scope is outside what we should take.
4 · Direct to a federal agency
Competed acquisitions, simplified acquisition and micro-purchase work, and task orders. Not every federal engagement is a research award, and most of what we build is production software.
5 · State and local government
State agencies, counties, cities, and cooperative purchasing. Data platforms, analytics, systems integration, and modernization. We register in state vendor systems under the data-processing and IT-consulting commodity codes and respond to open solicitations. Being outside your state is rarely a barrier; where a local preference applies, we say so early.
6 · Commercial engagements
Companies buying AI, data engineering, cloud, or full-stack delivery. Fixed-price scopes with testable acceptance criteria, or time-and-materials where discovery genuinely comes first. The same discipline we bring to a federal deliverable applies: a reproducible evaluation, provenance on the data, and documentation a successor engineer can use.
What we actually build
- AI and machine learning systems that run in production, not only in a notebook
- Data engineering: ingestion, pipelines, warehouses and lakehouses, lineage and quality
- Cloud architecture and migration, including regulated and air-gapped environments
- Full-stack applications and APIs over the data you already hold
- Modernization of systems that work but can no longer be changed safely
How an engagement starts
One email describing the problem. We reply with what we would need to see, what we think it takes, and whether we are the right firm for it. If we are not, we say so. There is no discovery call requirement and no sales sequence.
The team
Precision Federal fields a standing bench of named engineers, licensed professional engineers, and domain specialists across defense, health, energy, transportation, and public-sector data. Specialists are brought onto an engagement by domain, named with their consent. You always know who is doing the work before it starts.