About Precision Federal
What is Precision Delivery Federal?
Precision Delivery Federal LLC is a small-business AI and data engineering firm headquartered in Ames, Iowa. It delivers production-grade machine learning, agentic AI, cloud architecture, data engineering, and full-stack development to the U.S. federal government under NAICS 541512. Every engagement is founder-led.
When was Precision Federal founded?
The LLC was formed in Iowa on March 14, 2026. SAM.gov registration went active on April 6, 2026. SBA SBIR firm approval was issued on April 16, 2026. The company began accepting engagements immediately following SAM activation.
Who is the founder?
Bo Peng, founder and CTO. Kaggle Top 200 data scientist, fifteen years of engineering across three prior federal consulting firm tours, with production machine learning experience at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The full biography is on the team page.
What is the company's UEI and CAGE?
UEI is Y2JVCZXT9HP5. CAGE is 1AYQ0. Primary NAICS is 541512, Computer Systems Design Services. Additional NAICS coverage includes 541511, 541519, 541611, and 541715 for specific scopes.
Is Precision Federal a small business?
Yes. Precision Federal is a small business under the SBA size standard for NAICS 541512, which is approximately thirty-four million dollars in average annual receipts. The firm qualifies for all small-business set-asides at SBIR scale.
Where is Precision Federal based?
Ames, Iowa 50010. The company operates remote-first with travel to Washington D.C., customer sites, and federal facilities as required. Iowa is in the Central Time Zone, which overlaps the East Coast federal workday by three hours in the afternoon and the West Coast by three hours in the morning.
Capabilities & Services
What services does Precision Federal deliver?
Six primary capability areas: agentic AI systems, machine learning, cloud architecture, data engineering, full-stack web development, and DevSecOps. Each capability is covered in depth on its own page under /capabilities. All six are delivered by a founder-led team with no handoff between sales, architecture, and implementation.
What AI frameworks and models does the firm work with?
Commercial frontier models including Claude, GPT, and Gemini; open-source models hosted inside GovCloud including Llama, Mistral, and Qwen; and traditional ML libraries including PyTorch, scikit-learn, XGBoost, and LightGBM. Agent frameworks include LangGraph, LangChain, and custom orchestration purpose-built for federal constraints.
Does Precision Federal build its own products?
Yes. Alongside contracted work, the firm develops proprietary prototypes and SBIR-funded products. Products are designed to deploy inside GovCloud from day one and to integrate cleanly with existing agency infrastructure.
Does Precision Federal do hardware integration?
The firm's core focus is software, machine learning, and cloud. For engagements requiring hardware, embedded systems, RF, or test-range instrumentation, Precision Federal teams with specialized partners and focuses on the software, analytics, and cloud layers of the system.
What programming languages are in the stack?
Primary languages are Python and TypeScript. Secondary languages are SQL, Go, and Rust for performance-critical components. The firm does not maintain legacy stacks such as .NET Framework or Java EE — for agencies with those constraints, Precision Federal focuses on the modern surface area and teams for legacy work.
Does the firm do pure strategy or advisory work?
Rarely, and only as an adjunct to building. The firm does not sell slideware-only engagements. Every contract includes shipped software as the primary deliverable.
Federal Contracting
What contract vehicles does Precision Federal hold?
As a newly registered small business, Precision Federal competes through direct agency solicitations, small-business set-asides, SBIR awards, and as a subcontractor to primes holding IDIQ and OTA vehicles. Direct GSA Schedule is on the roadmap. Specific vehicle coverage can be grown quickly through team arrangements.
Can Precision Federal be a prime contractor?
Yes, for unclassified work within the firm's capability envelope. For classified programs, or engagements requiring a cleared facility or facility security officer, Precision Federal partners as a subcontractor to cleared primes. This posture is openly disclosed in every conversation.
Is Precision Federal SAM.gov registered?
Yes, active since April 6, 2026, with UEI Y2JVCZXT9HP5 and CAGE 1AYQ0. SAM status is monitored and renewed annually well before expiration.
What socioeconomic categories does the firm qualify under?
Small business under NAICS 541512. Additional categories including 8(a) and certain programs tied to U.S. citizenship become available after the founder's naturalization completes. Current eligibility is published transparently on the capabilities statement.
Can Precision Federal accept a purchase order today?
Yes. SAM is active, the firm is SBIR-approved, banking is in place. For micro-purchase and simplified acquisition threshold awards the firm is fully set up. For larger awards, the firm can also stand up project-specific accounting and DCAA-compatible tracking on short notice.
What's the firm's approach to competing against primes?
Honest scope. Precision Federal does not pretend to be a cleared integrator or to field a hundred engineers. Where the firm competes, it competes on technical depth, founder-led delivery, cost structure, and small-business contribution. Where it cannot compete honestly, it teams instead.
SBIR & STTR
What is SBIR?
The Small Business Innovation Research program is a federal set-aside that funds U.S. small businesses to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. It operates across eleven participating agencies. Phase I awards fund feasibility work, Phase II funds prototype development, and Phase III funds commercialization, typically through sole-source contract authority.
Is Precision Federal SBIR eligible?
Yes. SBA firm approval was issued on April 16, 2026. The company is registered in DSIP for DoD SBIR, on NSF Research.gov, on Grants.gov for multi-agency submissions, and is in the process of adding eRA Commons for NIH. A complete SBIR-ready checklist is available at /resources/sbir-ready-checklist.
What agencies does Precision Federal pursue for SBIR?
Primary focus is DoD (Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA, SOCOM, CDAO), NSF, Department of Energy, NIH, and DHS. Any agency with topics aligned to agentic AI, machine learning, and federal data systems is a candidate. Topic selection is driven by technical fit, not opportunistic filing.
Will Precision Federal co-propose on SBIR?
Yes. The company actively seeks small-business primes and research-institution partners for joint Phase I and Phase II submissions. A standing capabilities statement and mutual NDA template are available on request. The firm responds to teaming inquiries within one business day.
What is the difference between SBIR and STTR?
Both are small-business innovation programs. STTR specifically requires partnership between the small business and a non-profit research institution such as a university, with defined minimum work allocations to each (at least forty percent to the small business and at least thirty percent to the research institution). SBIR permits but does not require such partnership.
Does Precision Federal retain SBIR data rights?
Yes. Under federal acquisition regulation, SBIR-funded technical data carries SBIR Data Rights protections for a defined period. Phase III sole-source authority is also preserved. The firm's data rights posture is explicitly documented in every proposal cost and technical volume.
Partnering & Teaming
Does Precision Federal team with primes?
Yes. The company partners with cleared primes for classified programs and with large integrators for scale engagements. The firm is easy to scope, contract, and mobilize on prime's paper, hits dates, documents rigorously, and protects the prime's customer relationship rather than going around it.
Will Precision Federal sign a prime's paper?
Generally yes, subject to reasonable terms. The firm reviews every agreement for fair scope, payment terms, intellectual property ownership, termination provisions, and limitations of liability. Unreasonable prime paper is negotiated or declined.
Does Precision Federal take subs?
Yes, when engagement scope requires specialized capability beyond the core team. Subs are vetted for technical fit, compliance posture, insurance coverage, and financial health before onboarding. Subcontract payment terms are typically net-30 from prime receipt.
How quickly can a teaming agreement be signed?
Mutual NDAs are typically executed within twenty-four hours. Full teaming agreements within three to five business days. The firm maintains standard templates specifically to move at the speed of federal proposal cycles.
Who handles teaming inquiries?
The founder directly. Teaming inquiries go to [email protected] with a response typically within one business day. There is no business development team to route through.
Security & Compliance
Does Precision Federal hold a FedRAMP ATO?
Not currently. The firm builds inside customer-owned ATO boundaries, typically within FedRAMP-authorized cloud environments such as AWS GovCloud. A Precision-Federal-owned FedRAMP package is on the roadmap for specific SaaS products. A detailed FedRAMP readiness checklist is at /resources/fedramp-ato-checklist.
What compliance frameworks is the team fluent in?
NIST 800-53 (Moderate and High baselines), NIST 800-171 for CUI handling, FedRAMP Low and Moderate, DISA Cloud Computing SRG impact levels 2 through 5, and HIPAA for federal health data work. For each engagement, the relevant framework is explicitly identified during kickoff and the control implementation responsibilities are documented.
Does the founder hold a security clearance?
Not currently. The founder operates at public trust and sensitive-but-unclassified levels and has done so across all three prior federal consulting tours. For classified programs Precision Federal partners with cleared primes who hold facility clearances and can sponsor cleared personnel.
How does Precision Federal handle customer data?
Customer data is held only under signed data processing agreements. It is stored only in environments explicitly authorized by the customer. Encryption at rest uses AES-256; encryption in transit uses TLS 1.2 or higher. At engagement close, data is deleted per the terms of the agreement with documented destruction records.
How does Precision Federal handle incidents?
The firm maintains an incident response plan consistent with NIST 800-61. Customer-impacting incidents are reported to the customer within the contractually specified window, typically four to twenty-four hours depending on severity. Post-incident reports follow standard federal formats.
Does Precision Federal carry cyber insurance?
Yes. The firm maintains a cyber liability policy appropriate to federal small-business engagements, with coverage limits scalable to contract requirements. Certificates of insurance are available to customers and primes on request.
Technical & Stack
Does Precision Federal work in AWS GovCloud?
Yes. AWS GovCloud is the primary cloud environment for federal engagements. The team is fluent in ECS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS, and Terraform-driven deployments into GovCloud regions. Azure Government is a secondary environment for agencies standardized on it.
How does the firm approach continuous monitoring?
All production systems include centralized audit logging to a tamper-evident store, automated vulnerability scanning on every deploy, drift detection against Terraform baselines, and monthly POA&M reviews. Continuous monitoring is a production engineering discipline, not a compliance afterthought.
What is the default architecture for a federal AI system?
A FastAPI or Next.js application layer, a PostgreSQL or Databricks data layer, an inference layer combining commercial frontier models and self-hosted open-source models, Terraform-driven infrastructure-as-code, centralized structured logging to a tamper-evident store, and comprehensive per-action audit records. Variations are scoped per engagement.
Can Precision Federal deploy on-premises?
Yes, for scenarios where on-premises is required — air-gapped environments, specific DoD facility constraints, or customers with mature on-prem infrastructure who prefer not to extend to cloud. The firm's default is cloud because it is faster and cheaper. On-premises is a supported variation, not a core specialty.
How does Precision Federal handle model evaluation?
Every production model includes a held-out evaluation harness, fairness testing across relevant demographic groups, calibration checks, and adversarial probe testing. Evaluation artifacts are versioned alongside model weights and deployment manifests, so every production model has a reproducible evaluation package.
What is the firm's position on open-source?
Aggressively pro-open-source where it fits the mission. The firm contributes to public repositories, shares research notebooks on Kaggle, and prefers open-source components unless a specific requirement forces a commercial choice. All open-source use is licensed cleanly and documented in an SBOM.
How fast can Precision Federal start?
For unclassified work with an executed agreement, engineering can start within one to three business days. The firm's bias is toward early working prototypes, with a functional deliverable typically within the first two weeks. This pace is a deliberate design choice made possible by a flat organization and a founder-led team.
Still have a question?
Email the founder directly. Typical response within 24 hours. New questions from this page are tracked and the answers become part of this public FAQ for future visitors.
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