Castellum, Inc. (Castellum) is focused on building a large, successful technology company in the areas of cybersecurity, IT, electronic warfare, information warfare, and information operations with businesses in the defense, federal, civilian, and commercial markets. Services include intelligence analysis, software development, software engineering, program management, strategic and mission planning, information assurance, cybersecurity and policy support, data analytics, and model based systems...
Castellum, Inc. (Castellum) is focused on building a large, successful technology company in the areas of cybersecurity, IT, electronic warfare, information warfare, and information operations with businesses in the defense, federal, civilian, and commercial markets. Services include intelligence analysis, software development, software engineering, program management, strategic and mission planning, information assurance, cybersecurity and policy support, data analytics, and model based systems engineering (‘MBSE’). These services are applicable to customers in the United States government (‘USG’), financial services, healthcare, and other users of large data applications. They can be delivered to on-premises enclaves or customers who rely upon cloud-based infrastructures.
The company has worked with multiple business brokers and contacts within their business network to identify potential acquisitions.
The company’s primary customers are agencies and departments of the USG. The company’s expertise and technology support national security missions and government modernization for intelligence, defense, and federal civilian customers.
The company provides expertise and technology to enterprise and mission customers in the support of national security missions and government modernization/transformation.
As a government contractor, Castellum both cooperates (as a teaming partner) and competes with many different companies. Sometimes, Castellum both teams with (on one contract) and competes against (on a different contract) the same company. Among others, Castellum competes with (and sometimes also teams with) Northrup Grumman, CACI, Peraton, and Booz-Allen Hamilton.
Markets
The company provides its expertise and technology to the company’s domestic and international customers in the following market areas:
Digital Solutions – Castellum transforms how government does business. The company modernizes enterprise and agency-unique applications, enterprise infrastructure, and business processes to enhance productivity and increase user satisfaction. The company uses data analytics and visualization to provide insights and outcomes that optimize the company’s customer’s operations.
C4ISR, Cyber & Space – Castellum helps ensure information superiority by delivering multi-domain C4 technology and networks. The company’s software-defined, full-spectrum cyber, electronic warfare, and C-UAS solutions provide electromagnetic spectrum advantage and deliver precision effects against national security threats. The company is at the forefront of developing technologies that meet the challenges of 5G wireless communications both on and off the battlefield, millimeter wave, and the use of lasers for free space optical communications and long-range sensing.
Engineering Services – Castellum provides platform integration, modernization, and sustainment; system engineering; naval architecture; training and simulation services; and logistics engineering to help the company’s customers achieve a decisive tactical edge. The company enhances platforms to improve situational awareness, mobility, interoperability, lethality, and survivability. The company conducts software vulnerability analysis and harden technology to protect against malicious actors. The company’s platform-agnostic, mission-first approach ensures optimal performance, so the company’s nation’s forces can overmatch its adversaries.
Enterprise IT – Castellum amplifies efficiency with unmatched expertise and next-generation technology. The company designs, implements, protects, and manages secure enterprise IT solutions for the United States (‘U.S.’) federal, state, and local agencies to optimize efficiency, enhance performance, and ensure end-user satisfaction.
Mission Support –Castellum specializes in planning and intelligence support for information warfare and information operations (‘IW/IO’). The company develops IW/IO plans, exercises, doctrine, and training for the Military Services and the Combatant Commands in domestic and deployed overseas locations. The company’s intelligence support ensures continuous advances in collection, analysis, and dissemination to optimize decision-making. Castellum also has linguists and cultural advisors who provide clients with insights into the history, media consumption, and cultural nuances of target audiences to maximize the effectiveness of communications plans and ensure mission success.
Strengths and Strategy
Extensive Sector Knowledge and Advanced Technology. The company primarily offers its expertise and technology to defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies of the U.S. federal, state, and local governments. Castellum performs software development and virtualization of infrastructure services for the U.S. Navy. The company is subject matter experts in electronic and electromagnetic warfare. The company performs advanced data analytics on litigation data in the support of the Department of Justice. Lastly, through the company’s IW/IO operations, Castellum provides key services to governments of other nations.
International Presence. The company supports and has previously supported international clients in Australia and other foreign countries.
Deep-Seated Government Relationships. To effectively perform on the company’s existing customer contracts and secure new customer contracts with the U.S. federal, state, and local governments, the company must maintain expert knowledge of agency policies, operations, and challenges. The company combines this comprehensive knowledge with expertise and technology for the company’s enterprise and mission customers. The company’s capabilities provide the company with opportunities either to compete directly for, or to support other bidders in competition for multi-million dollar and multi-year award contracts from the U.S. federal, state, and local governments.
Complementary Product and Service Offerings. The company has strategic business relationships with several companies associated with the IT industry which have business objectives compatible with the company and offer complementary products and services.
Customers
The company provides expertise and technology to defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies of the U.S. federal, state, and local governments. The company’s clients call the company to work on their hardest problems by providing innovative, intelligent, and agile cloud-ready capabilities across the DoD Information Network Operations, Electromagnetic Warfare, Cyberspace Operations, Intelligence, and Information Dominance community. The company specializes in intelligence analysis, software development, software engineering, turnkey system development, program management, strategic and mission planning, information assurance, cybersecurity, and policy along with analysis support.
The company’s government clients include cabinet-level departments of the USG, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corp, and Special Operations, as well as other federal and civilian agencies. The company also serves state and local agencies and commercial clients, working to solve their hardest and most sophisticated cyber challenges, and support one international client.
Regulation
As a contractor to the USG, as well as state and local governments, the company is heavily regulated in most fields in which the company operates. The company deals with numerous USG agencies and entities, and when working with these and other entities, the company must comply with and are affected by unique laws and regulations relating to the formation, administration, and performance of government contracts. Some significant law and regulations that affect the company include the following:
The Federal Acquisition Regulation (‘FAR’) and agency regulations supplemental to FAR, which regulate the formation, administration, and performance of USG contracts;
The False Claims Act, which imposes civil and criminal liability for violations, including substantial monetary penalties for, among other things, presenting false or fraudulent claims for payments or approval;
The False Statements Act, which imposes civil and criminal liability for making false statements to the USG;
The Truthful Cost or Pricing Data Statute (formerly known as the ‘Truth in Negotiations Act’), which requires certification and disclosure of cost and pricing data in connection with the negotiation of certain contracts, modifications, or task orders;
The Procurement Integrity Act, which regulates access to competitor bid and proposal information and certain internal government procurement sensitive information, and the company’s ability to provide compensation to certain former government procurement officials;
Laws and regulations restricting the ability of a contractor to provide gifts or gratuities to employees of the USG;
Post-government employment laws and regulations, which restrict the ability of a contractor to recruit and hire current employees of the USG and deploy former employees of the USG;
Laws, regulations, and executive orders restricting the handling, use, and dissemination of information classified for national security purposes or determined to be ‘controlled unclassified information’ or ‘for official use only,’ and the export of certain products, services, and technical data, including requirements regarding any applicable licensing of the company’s employees involved in such work;
Laws, regulations, and executive orders regulating the handling, use, and dissemination of personally identifiable information in the course of performing a USG contract;
International trade compliance laws, regulations, and executive orders that prohibit business with certain sanctioned entities and require authorization for certain exports or imports in order to protect national security and global stability;
Laws, regulations, and executive orders governing organizational conflicts of interest that may restrict the company’s ability to compete for certain USG contracts because of the work that the company performs for the USG or may require that the company takes measures such as firewalling off certain employees or restricting their future work activities due to the current work that they perform under a USG contract;
Laws, regulations, and executive orders that impose requirements on the company to ensure compliance with requirements and protect the government from risks related to the company’s supply chain, including compliance with Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (‘CMMC’);
Laws, regulations, and mandatory contract provisions providing protections to employees or subcontractors seeking to report alleged fraud, waste, and abuse related to a government contract;
The National Industrial Security Operating Manual and other laws and regulations concerning the maintenance of a facility security clearance and the safeguarding of classified materials;
The Contractor Business Systems rule, with authorizes Department of Defense agencies to withhold a portion of the company’s payments if the company is determined to have a significant deficiency in the company’s accounting, cost estimating, purchasing, earned value management, material management and accounting, and/or property management system; and
The Cost Accounting Standards and Cost Principles, which impose accounting and allowability requirements that govern the company’s right to reimbursement under certain cost-based USG contracts and require consistency of accounting practices over time.
Given the magnitude of the company’s revenue derived from contracts with the DoD, the Defense Contract Audit Agency (‘DCAA’) is the company’s relevant government audit agency. The company is also subject to audit by Inspectors General of other USG agencies.
Internationally, the company is subject to special USG laws and regulations (such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (the ‘FCPA’), local government regulations and procurement policies and practices, including regulations relating to import-export control, investments, exchange controls, and repatriation of earnings, as well as varying currency, political, and economic risks.
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