What Ellumen does

Ellumen Inc. is a privately held U.S. information-technology services firm headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, founded in 2003 and operating with a headcount in the 101-250 range. The company specializes exclusively in advanced IT solutions for government agencies — federal, state, and local — with service lines spanning software development, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, systems integration, training, and medical logistics. The technical offering is positioned as mission-critical government IT delivery rather than a packaged software product, and the company's homepage references an internal 'Innovation Lab' initiative that suggests some prototyping capability, though no proprietary platform or product is publicly itemized. Go-to-market is an enterprise field-sales motion directed at public-sector procurement vehicles, in which Ellumen competes for task orders and contracts through direct engagement. Revenue is generated via professional services engagements — software development, systems integration, and technology consulting — under what are typically quote-based or competitively bid government contracting vehicles, with no pricing publicly disclosed. The company is led by founder and CEO William McCollough, with Dan Wayland serving as Chief Technology Officer, and operates a 'Partner with Us' program indicating an active subcontractor and vendor teaming posture within the federal-IT ecosystem.

Name

Ellumen

Legal name

Ellumen Inc.

Website

https://ellumen.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Ellumen Inc. is a privately held, Silver Spring, Maryland-based IT services firm founded in 2003 that delivers software development, cybersecurity, systems integration, medical logistics, and training exclusively to U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies through professional services contracts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government IT Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Engineering, Integration & ETL/ELT Services (BPAEAHAB)

Keywords

• Government IT services
• Systems integration
• Cybersecurity solutions
• Software development services
• Medical logistics IT

Headquarters

HQ city

Silver Spring

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government IT Services: Ellumen generates revenue through providing advanced IT solutions and services to government agencies, likely through government contracts and procurement vehicles.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

Ellumen provides advanced IT solutions and professional services to government agencies, including software development, systems integration, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, medical logistics technology, and training. The company delivers technology consulting and modernization services for mission-critical government systems, operating an Innovation Lab initiative to support its government clientele.

Product overview

Ellumen provides advanced IT solutions for government agencies. The company's offerings include professional services and an Innovation Lab initiative, though the homepage provides limited specific product detail.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Government IT Professional Services
• Medical Logistics and Training Technology

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Partner with Us Programnot specifiedOthersEllumen operates a 'Partner with Us' program as indicated in their navigation, suggesting collaboration opportunities with other technology vendors, subcontractors, or consulting firms in the government IT space.

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Peraton: Peraton is a large federal-services prime providing IT, cyber, sensors, and mission support to defense, intelligence, and federal civilian customers. It is comparable as a prime on federal IT and systems integration work that Ellumen would either team against, subcontract under, or attempt to win as a small-business partner on vehicles awarded to Peraton-led teams.
• Booz Allen Hamilton: Booz Allen Hamilton is a major federal consulting and IT services firm with deep government digital, cyber, and analytics capabilities. It is comparable to Ellumen in that it sells IT consulting, systems integration, and mission-tech work to federal civilian and defense customers—the same buyer profile Ellumen targets—at significantly broader scale.
• SAIC: SAIC is a large federal-IT services prime that provides systems integration, cybersecurity, digital modernization, and IT infrastructure to federal civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies. It is comparable to Ellumen because it competes for the same federal IT task orders and contract vehicles, just at materially greater scale; SAIC is the kind of prime that Ellumen would team against or subcontract under.
• ManTech: ManTech (now part of ManTech International/Constellis) provides federal IT, intelligence, cyber, and mission-support services to defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies. It is comparable because its services portfolio, customer set, and contract-vehicle footprint overlap heavily with Ellumen's target market—often as a prime on the same recompetes Ellumen would chase.
• Leidos: Leidos is one of the largest federal IT and health IT services providers, serving defense, civilian, intelligence, and health agencies. It is comparable because it directly competes for federal IT and health-IT modernization work—Ellumen's healthcare-government intersection maps closely to Leidos's health-focused federal portfolio—and it sets the pricing/terms benchmark for primes.

Direct peers

• ICF International: ICF provides digital services, IT modernization, cybersecurity, and mission support to federal civilian and defense clients—a directly comparable government-IT services firm at a similar mid-size band to Ellumen. Both compete for task orders on vehicles serving HHS, DHS, DoD, and civilian agencies, making ICF one of the closest peers in size and service mix.
• Maximus: Maximus provides federal IT services, citizen-services modernization, and health-services programs (e.g., ACA exchanges, Medicaid systems) to civilian and health agencies. It is comparable because it operates a similar federal-IT professional-services model with healthcare and government-adjacent technology programs—a market where Ellumen's medical logistics and healthcare focus directly competes.
• CGI Federal: CGI Federal is the US subsidiary of CGI Group focused on federal IT modernization, systems integration, and digital services for civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies. It is comparable because it provides the same kind of mid-to-large scale IT services, systems integration, and mission support that Ellumen offers, often as a prime or significant subcontractor on federal vehicles.
• ECS Group (ECS Federal): ECS (an ASGN brand) is an IT solutions provider focused on federal civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies, delivering cybersecurity, cloud, DevSecOps, and digital modernization services. It is a close mid-tier peer because its size, customer mix, and IT-services offering profile closely resemble Ellumen's positioning in the federal services mid-market.
• Salient CRGT: Salient CRGT (now part of Unisys Federal) provided federal IT modernization, data analytics, and cybersecurity services to civilian and defense agencies. It is comparable because it operated at a similar small/mid-tier federal-services scale, with the same enterprise-IT-services menu and customer profile as Ellumen, often competing on the same set-aside and small-business vehicles.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ellumen

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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