SBA-Certified SDVOSB & VOSB · Special Operations & Interagency
“Words have meaning. Relationships matter.”
Seasoned advice, experienced assistance, advanced training and education, and leadership development that advance our clients’ goals — from the field to the C-suite. Client success is our mission.
About ARC
Adaptive Research and Consulting, LLC is a Maryland limited liability company and an SBA-Certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. We support the Special Operations and Interagency community, and allied and partner-nation special operations forces, with people who have operated in the environments they now advise on.
Seasoned advice, experienced assistance, advanced training and education, and leadership development that advance our clients’ goals — from the field to the C-suite — across the Special Operations and Interagency community. Client success is our mission.
The trusted partner of choice — the first call when mission success depends on the right people, the right experience, and the right advice.
Requirements in this community are rarely solved by volume. They are solved by someone who already knows the standard, already knows the people, and can tell the difference between a résumé and a professional. That is the work ARC does.
Core Competencies
One firm, four complementary ways we deliver for Special Operations and Interagency clients.
High-Demand. Low-Density. Delivered.
Identify, recruit, and source high-demand / low-density Special Operations and Interagency talent through ARC Talent Acquisition-F3EA™ — cleared professionals in counterintelligence and HUMINT, analysis, cyber, capture and program management, and senior Interagency roles.
Experience-Informed. Mission-Ready.
Specialized training, curriculum and instructional design (ADDIE/ISD), scenario role-play, exercise support, and mentorship — from concept through execution and assessment.
Seasoned Counsel. Stronger Outcomes.
Advisory support from formation through performance — organizational design, capability development, process and standards work, and executive coaching and leadership development.
Aligned Partners. Combined Strength.
SDVOSB joint ventures and teaming arrangements structured to capture set-asides and to deliver training, operational support, and consulting to Department of Defense and Interagency customers.
Methodology
A proprietary sourcing methodology adapted from the special-operations targeting cycle — commercial talent-acquisition rigor applied with an operator’s judgment.
Map the market and source high-demand / low-density passive candidates through a cleared network that job boards cannot reach.
Operator-informed qualification — skills, currency in the work, clearance, availability, and mission fit.
Engage, secure written commitment, and deliver a vetted, ranked slate — fast.
Support placement and integration, converting a one-time hire into an enduring cleared pipeline.
Capture lessons, measure quality of placement, and refresh the bench for the next requirement.
A ranked slate of three cleared counterintelligence / HUMINT professionals delivered to a prime contractor in under twenty-four hours. A counter-threat-finance subject-matter expert sourced and delivered on short notice through a prime partner supporting a federal security-cooperation program.
Commercial talent-acquisition rigor, a special-operations targeting heritage, and an irreplaceable network inside a restricted, cleared community.
Differentiators
Veteran-owned. Mission-built.
ARC is not a staffing shop and not a beltway consultancy. The people who advise your mission have run the mission — and most of them are still in the work today, not describing it from memory.
Our advisors have operated in the environments they now support. In this community that is a prerequisite, not a résumé line.
Active TS/SCI clearance among key personnel, and instructor and mentor service at the advanced Special Operations and Interagency training institutions.
Nearly four decades of trust inside a restricted, cleared community — the network that finds high-demand, low-density talent when a job posting cannot.
The Bench
ARC is deliberately small, and deliberately deep. Behind the firm is a standing group of senior advisors — mission specialists who are still current in the work, and business leaders who have carried real enterprise responsibility. They engage by assignment, matched to the requirement.
Cleared practitioners who have run the work they now advise on.
Retired senior officer · 30+ years
A retired senior United States Navy intelligence officer who directed counterintelligence and HUMINT operations worldwide, served abroad in senior defense diplomatic assignments, and stood up a new information-warfare organization as its first officer in charge. Depth in screening, assessment, and specialized-pipeline management.
Senior Special Operations civilian (Ret.) · 30 years
A career across full-spectrum special operations, HUMINT and counterintelligence operations, and joint intelligence planning at theater and combatant-command level — including a congressionally mandated activity of more than 350 personnel. Currently instructs and evaluates candidates in an advanced Defense HUMINT qualification course.
Senior operational psychologist · decades in assessment & selection
Assessment and selection for high-demand, low-density roles — the discipline behind judging who will perform under conditions a résumé cannot predict. Informs ARC’s screening rubrics and candidate evaluation across the talent line of effort.
Operational depth is only half of what a customer is buying. The other half is whether the firm behind the operator is run properly.
ARC’s business advisors are senior executives who have carried enterprise scale, governance, and organizational responsibility — and who hold ARC to that standard. Both are Marine Corps veterans who went on to build substantial commercial careers, which is precisely the combination a service-disabled veteran-owned small business needs in the room: people who understand the mission and have also met a payroll.
Executive Director, Milwaukee Regional Medical Center · Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.) · United States Naval Academy
Executive Director of the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center since 2014, leading Southeast Wisconsin's only academic medical center campus — governance, external affairs, and partnerships across its member organizations, local and regional business, and government and health leaders. More than 25 years of organizational leadership across public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, including a vice presidency in the commercial construction industry, and service at the federal, state, and municipal levels. A former United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. Bachelor of Science, United States Naval Academy; Master of Public Administration, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Advises ARC on enterprise growth, capture discipline, and governance.
Senior and executive leadership · thirty-plus years · Marine Corps veteran
More than thirty years of senior and executive leadership, most recently building distribution strategy and partner networks across national carriers and marketing organizations — business planning, market expansion, and the recruitment, development, and retention of independent professional advisors. The same problem ARC solves in a different industry. A Marine Corps veteran who continues to serve through the American Legion and as chaplain of a Marine Corps League detachment. Advises ARC on teaming and partner strategy and on growing and holding its professional bench.
Advisors engage on assignment. Named biographies, credentials, and clearance details are furnished directly to qualified government and industry parties on request.
Partners & Past Performance
ARC performs as a prime contractor, as a subcontractor to larger primes, and through joint ventures. Selected partners and customers include:
Organization names are listed to identify past performance and teaming relationships. No endorsement by any listed organization is expressed or implied, and no United States Government endorsement of ARC is expressed or implied. Detailed past-performance information is available on request to qualified government and industry parties.
For Contracting Officers, Primes & Small-Business Leads
ARC is certified, registered, and ready to receive work today. Three straightforward paths:
As an SBA-Certified SDVOSB, ARC is eligible for service-disabled veteran-owned set-aside and sole-source awards under FAR subpart 19.14, within applicable size standards and thresholds.
ARC supports primes carrying small-business subcontracting plans under FAR 52.219-9, and teams as a certified SDVOSB partner on Department of Defense and Interagency requirements.
ARC Umbra, an SDVOSB joint venture, is structured for set-aside capture where a combined past performance and capacity profile is required.
ARC is small by design, not by limitation. The work is delivered by a standing bench of cleared practitioners. The firm itself is advised by senior executives — both Marine Corps veterans — who have run enterprise-scale organizations and carried capture, contract negotiation, and distribution strategy in competitive commercial markets. Performance risk on a small-business award is a fair question to ask. That bench is our answer to it.
| Legal name | Adaptive Research and Consulting, L.L.C. |
|---|---|
| Unique Entity ID (UEI) | JQ5VY38P2289 |
| CAGE code | 19VP4 |
| Entity type | Limited Liability Company · Maryland |
| Socioeconomic status | SBA-Certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) & Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) |
| SAM.gov | Registration active · purpose of registration: all awards |
| Verify certification | search.certifications.sba.gov — search UEI JQ5VY38P2289 |
| Verify registration | sam.gov — search UEI JQ5VY38P2289 |
Contact
Thomas P. Howard
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Sources-sought responses, RFI and RFQ packages, capability statements, and teaming or joint-venture inquiries are all welcome by email.
Let’s talk
A set-aside you need to capture. A subcontracting plan you need to satisfy. A cleared requirement nobody else can fill. Start with a conversation — you will be talking to the person who does the work, not a business-development layer.
SBA-Certified SDVOSB & VOSB · UEI JQ5VY38P2289 · CAGE 19VP4 · verify at search.certifications.sba.gov
