OMNI Forms Joint Venture With Rackner

OMNI and Rackner created an SBA-approved mentor-protege venture focused on advanced technology and software for national security customers.

Updated on Nov. 5, 2026 in Cybersecurity

Bold flat-color editorial illustration of a single steel server rack with dark cables curving onto a bare concrete floor, set against a cream field. — OMNI and Rackner formed the SBA-approved mentor-protege joint venture OMNI-Rackner to pursue national security software contracts with the Department of War and intelligence agencies. AI Illustration. Upload story photo >

OMNI and Rackner have formed an SBA-approved mentor-protege joint venture called OMNI-Rackner, targeting the Department of War, the intelligence community, and national security agencies. OMNI also formed a separate joint venture, OMNI-Bridge Defense Solutions, on October 28.

Why it matters

The partnership positions OMNI and Rackner to pursue federal software and cybersecurity work, a market where government customers increasingly seek AI-enabled and secure development capabilities. For readers across the United States, the move reflects how defense and intelligence technology contracting is consolidating around specialized software firms.

OMNI completed a Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 3 benchmark appraisal across all six domains in February, and its portfolio includes Astoria, a metadata management platform, and ACDC, a real-time data access platform. The joint venture's specific technical deliverables and contract values have not been disclosed.

The players

OMNI

OMNI is a federal technology contractor founded in 2017 that develops metadata management and real-time data access platforms for government clients.

Rackner

Rackner is a government software firm founded in 2015 that builds AI-enabled, cybersecurity-focused software for federal agencies and the Department of War.

The details

Rackner, founded in 2015 by Alex Raul, DJ Gagner, and Frank Hackenburg, builds AI-enabled software for government customers combining machine learning operations, DevSecOps, and cybersecurity, with work spanning the Air Force, Army, Navy, USCIS, the FDA, the Department of State, and NOAA. OMNI, founded in 2017, acquired Nara Logics in June.

2015: Rackner founded as a cloud and web consultancy.
2017: OMNI founded.
June 2025: OMNI won a potential $427 million contract from the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency.
October 28: OMNI announced the OMNI-Bridge Defense Solutions joint venture.

Tech Race

Rackner holds prime and subcontracts and works with Department of War software factories, including Platform One, placing the partnership within the Pentagon's push to modernize software development through shared pipelines. The venture positions OMNI to compete for federal contracts in a field where cybersecurity credentials and DevSecOps capability increasingly determine eligibility.

For federal contractors and government technology buyers, the joint venture could open access to defense and intelligence contracts that require SBA-approved partnerships. Individual users of federal digital services are unlikely to see direct changes from this arrangement in the near term.

The takeaway

Mentor-protege partnerships give smaller technology firms a structured path into federal markets, and they signal that defense software buyers value proven cybersecurity and development credentials.