NIRA's CEO, Linda Wang has been recognized as the 2025 Northern Virginia Small Business Person of the Year, by the United States Small Business Administration’s Washington Metropolitan Area District Office (SBA WMADO). This award reflects Linda’s visionary leadership, dedication, and the tremendous impact she has made over the past 11 years at NIRA. Under her guidance, we’ve grown stronger, more innovative, and more connected to our community.

SupplyIQ, NIRA's platform for Supply Chain information sharing and AI-driven analytics, has been named a 2025 FORUM Disruptive Tech Winner! Building on NIRA’s EPCIS-compliant transaction management platform and incorporating the latest GenAI advancements, SupplyIQ integrates advanced analytics to enable visualization, simulation, analysis, and prediction, enhancing supply chain resiliency and optimization. This award underscores NIRA’s commitment to innovation and the transformative impact of SupplyIQ in shaping the future of secure, intelligent supply chain management.

NIRA has been awarded an SBIR contract from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) to develop advanced data integrity and control methods. Our solution, Resilient Edge-enabled Data Exchange (REDI, pronounced "Red Eye"), builds upon NIRA's LEDGENDD™ technology to enable resilient, policy-aware data exchange, even in Disrupted, Disconnected, Intermittent, and Low-bandwidth (DDIL) environments, where traditional security measures fall short.

Beyond the battlefield, REDI has the potential to transform secure communications in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), and disaster response, where network connectivity is unpredictable. This research reinforces NIRA’s leadership in Zero Trust security and Data-centric information sharing—pushing the boundaries of innovation to ensure trusted data exchange in the most challenging environments.

Following our recent awards of the GSA OASIS+ Contract for the Small Business set-aside in July and the Woman-Owned Small Business set-aside in September, NIRA is proud to announce that we have now received the award for the 8(a) set-aside! This accomplishment strengthens our ability to support federal agencies with the most effective and streamlined non-IT service solutions across all primary OASIS+ domains: Management and Advisory Services, and Technical and Engineering Services.

NIRA has been successfully appraised at CMMI Maturity Level 3, demonstrating a strong commitment to excellence in Security, Development, and Services. This achievement highlights NIRA's dedication to best practices that enhance organizational performance across these domains. CMMI Security ensures the protection of the organization's entire ecosystem, while CMMI Development focuses on improving the capability to deliver quality products and services. CMMI Services enhances the organization's ability to efficiently provide high-quality service offerings that meet both market and customer needs

We are thrilled to announce that NIRA Inc. has been selected for the award of the GSA OASIS+ contract in two pivotal domains: Management and Advisory Domain and Technical and Engineering Domain. This significant achievement underscores our commitment to excellence and innovation in providing comprehensive solutions to our clients.

OASIS+ is a governmentwide contract program recognized as a Best-in-Class (BIC) solution by the Office of Management and Budget. This designation makes OASIS+ a preferred governmentwide solution, ensuring high standards and streamlined procurement processes for federal agencies.

NIRA's Supply Chain Transaction Platform is featured in FDA’s first in a series of educational video on how food companies’ use of tech-enabled traceability can enhance food safety and protect consumers from foodborne illness. Watch this webinar to understand how it is used to power product traceability solutions.

This contract marks an important milestone in NIRA's journey to advance blockchain for digital rights management and enhance the security and integrity of our nation's defense technological assets.

Extending our supply chain technology offerings and leveraging our strategic partnerships with leading software developers, NIRA is making OLIOT EPICS product available on NASA's Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) GWAC for our federal customers. At its core, OLIOT EPCIS X provides a scalable repository that links together entities, transactions and events in the supply chain, allowing easy capture and query of “what, when, where, why and how” of products and other assets.

NIRA presented our work to promote effective document and data publication and sharing within the defense research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) community. The solution leverages the blockchain platforms and draws upon lessons learned from digital rights management (DRM).

NIRA has just received our ISO 27001:2013 (Information Security Management System) and ISO 20000-1:2018 (information Technology Service Management) certifications. These certifications reflect our team’s commitment to delivering world class IT services and support.

Building on the success of Ledger-based Network for Document Distribution (LEDGENDD) technology, our Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II project has been just extended to address the threat of ransomware. With this extension, we are hoping to enhance resilience of enterprise IT systems, enable sharing of threat information across organizations, and advance information protection state-of-the-art.