Apache-3 Inc.SAM.gov · SDVOSB · Native American-Owned

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned · Native American-Owned · Small Disadvantaged Business

Veteran-Owned IT, Cybersecurity, Cloud, AI Operations, Recruiting, and Training Services

Apache-3 Inc. is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Minority-Owned, Native American-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business delivering practical technology, workforce, and training services for government agencies, prime contractors, school districts, defense-related programs, and commercial customers across the United States.

SAM.gov RegisteredUEI: JQMHLJNNJYN1CAGE: 8DFR5Primary NAICS: 541519

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Apache-3's 4-week cohort workshop for working professionals, grounded in the book Prompt to Product by Snake Blocker and Naveen Dhillon. Federal civilian agencies, enterprises, professional services firms. NAICS 611420. PSC U012. SBA SDVOSB-prime delivery. Section 508 / WCAG 2.0 AA conformant. SCORM 2004 + cmi5 export per DoDI 1322.26 for agency LMS hosting.

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  • Minority-Owned Business
  • Native American-Owned Business
  • American Indian Owned
  • Small Disadvantaged Business

Built for

Prime contractors, contracting officers, supplier diversity teams, and the people doing the work.

For Prime Contractors

A SAM.gov registered teaming partner

SDVOSB, Native American-Owned, Minority-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business — all in one supplier. Fast response to teaming, sources sought, RFIs, and RFQs.
Prime contractor teaming partner

For Contracting Officers

Easy to verify, fast to engage

UEI, CAGE, NAICS, PSC, socio-economic statuses, and POC contact in one place. Government Business POC responds directly.
Government Contracting profile

For Small Business Liaison Officers

Procurement-ready diverse supplier

One supplier satisfies multiple supplier diversity categories. Capability statement ready to forward to capture and contracting teams.
SBLO partner page

For School Districts

Practical IT and cybersecurity support

Help desk, AI readiness for teachers, cybersecurity awareness, and modernization planning sized for small district IT teams.
School district support

For Local Government

IT, AI readiness, training, and workforce help

Sized to your team. Help desk, cybersecurity awareness, AI readiness, prompt engineering, and HR / recruiting support.
Local government support

For Defense-Related Programs

Veteran-led delivery discipline

Led by a retired U.S. Navy veteran. AI readiness, cybersecurity, training, program management, and engineering technical support.
Defense-related support

Core capabilities

Practical IT, cybersecurity, AI, training, HR, and recruiting work — sized to the team that has to keep it running.

All services

IT Services

End-user IT, infrastructure support, and modernization help for small public-sector teams and prime contractor task orders.
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Cybersecurity Support

Cybersecurity awareness, compliance support, and sensible-defaults security for small public-sector and commercial teams.
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Cloud Engineering

Cloud migrations, AWS-focused infrastructure support, and modernization work scoped to the customer's actual workload.
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DevOps and CI/CD

Pragmatic DevOps adoption — pipelines, environments, infrastructure-as-code, and release discipline.
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AI Readiness Training

Four-week cohort workshops, prompt-engineering bootcamps, and capstone-based delivery — taught by the authors of the book Prompt to Product.
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AI Operations

Secure, useful AI in real environments — automation workflows, prompt libraries, and operational guardrails.
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Help Desk

Tier 1-2 help desk and end-user support for small public-sector and prime-contractor teams.
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Software + Integration

Custom software development and small-system integration scoped to fit the customer's team and budget.
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Program Management

Program management, technical PMO support, and engineering technical assistance for prime contractor and federal teams.
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Procurement-ready

SAM.gov registered small business subcontractor.

Apache-3 Inc. is registered in SAM.gov with the identifiers, NAICS codes, PSC codes, and socio-economic statuses that prime contractors, supplier diversity teams, and contracting officers need to verify a partner quickly. Available for teaming, subcontracting, sources sought, RFIs, RFQs, and public-sector support discussions.

Legal Name

APACHE-3 INC

UEI

JQMHLJNNJYN1

CAGE Code

8DFR5

Primary NAICS

541519

State of Incorporation

Kansas

Area Served

All of the United States

Disaster Response

Yes

Bonding Required

No

Government Business POC

Snake Blocker · President / CEO · s@apache-3.com · (720) 707-9461

Easy first engagements

Start with a workshop, an assessment, or a focused engagement.

Apache-3 keeps a set of small, well-scoped first engagements that help customers see how we work without committing to a full program. Pick one as a starting point.

Two-hour AI Readiness Workshop

A focused 2-hour working session on safe, useful AI adoption for a public-sector or prime-contractor team. Comes with an acceptable-use policy starter kit.

Half-day AI Productivity Bootcamp

Hands-on prompt engineering, Microsoft Copilot, and ChatGPT-safe-use training for staff. Includes a department-specific prompt library.

Cybersecurity and Sensitive Data Awareness Training

Plain-English security awareness aimed at public-sector teams handling sensitive but unclassified information.

Prompt Engineering Basics for Public-Sector Teams

Two-session course on writing prompts that don't leak data, hallucinate, or burn budget.

Published works

Apache-3's principals authored the book that grounds our AI curriculum.

Prompt to Product

The Professional's Guide to AI Prompting: From First Draft to Live System

By Snake Blocker and Naveen Dhillon. First Edition, April 2026. 15 chapters, 50 reusable prompt templates, 45 hands-on exercises. A practitioner's guide for professionals who want to extract serious value from AI tools, systematically and repeatably.

Why this matters for federal bidders

When contracting officers evaluate a small business without prior federal past performance, a published book on the exact subject is the strongest substitute available. Apache-3 brings authored, public subject-matter authority to every AI training, prompt-engineering, and AI-readiness bid.

Why Apache-3

Small, accountable, and built for the work that has to ship.

We're a small distributed company led by a retired Navy veteran. Customers get the discipline of military operating tempo and the responsiveness of a small business. No call center. No routing. The POC picks up.

  • Single POC who responds

    Government Business POC is the President / CEO. No relay race from BD to capture to delivery.

  • Fast on RFI / RFQ / Sources Sought

    Same-business-day first response. Capture-quality response within 48 hours.

  • Diverse-supplier coverage

    SDVOSB, Veteran-Owned, Native American-Owned, American Indian Owned, Minority-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business.

  • Practical AI adoption

    AI Readiness, prompt engineering, Microsoft Copilot, and ChatGPT safe-use — scoped and operational, not hype.

  • Sized to the work

    We aim at the size of task orders where small subcontractors actually move the work.

  • Documentation, not dependence

    Customers leave engagements with documented operating procedures their team can run.

Procurement-ready

Available for teaming, subcontracting, sources sought, RFIs, RFQs, and public-sector support discussions.

Apache-3 Inc. responds directly. No call center, no routing. Start with a capability statement, a teaming question, or a specific scope — we'll meet you there.