Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned · Federal Software Engineering

Mission-ready drone and ISR software.

Ground control stations, ISR data pipelines, and mission-planning tools — built by a Navy UAS operator and a senior software engineer. Secure, cloud-native engineering for federal programs.

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned SAM-Registered · CAGE 23C91 NAICS 541511 Virginia LLC

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Core Competencies

Ground Control Station Software

Operator interfaces for flight, tasking, and monitoring of unmanned aircraft.

ISR Sensor & Imagery Pipelines

Ingest, process, and move surveillance data at scale on cloud-native infrastructure.

Mission Planning & Tasking

Tools to plan, brief, and manage UAS missions end to end.

Intelligence Dashboards

Turning collected data into decision-ready product for the people who act on it.

Application & Cloud Development

Web, desktop, and service back ends — from system design through delivery and sustainment.

Secure, Standards-Driven Engineering

Identity and access integration, automated testing, CI/CD, and accessibility. Documented and security-review ready.

Why Black Current

Veteran-owned and operated

Majority-owned and controlled by a service-disabled U.S. Navy veteran. SBA VetCert application in process.

Registered and contract-ready

SAM.gov active. UEI, CAGE, and SBIR control number issued. Cleared personnel.

Operator and engineer

Fourteen years of SOF unmanned systems experience paired with nine years of senior software engineering.

Virginia-based, nationally available

On site where the program runs, or remote — whichever the work calls for.

Principals

Chief Executive Officer

Ryan Roof

U.S. Navy, retired · Service-disabled veteran

Fourteen years with special operations unmanned aircraft systems across CONUS, OIF, and OEF. Current UAS subject-matter expert — operator, maintainer, instructor, and evaluator on multiple Group 1 platforms.

Chief Technology Officer

Scot Renz

Senior full-stack software engineer

Nine years delivering production systems for Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Glassdoor, Principal Financial, John Deere, Medtronic, and Harvard. Leads systems and cloud architecture, event-driven design, and engineering standards in regulated, security-sensitive environments where access control, auditability, and documented testing are requirements.

Company Data

Legal name	Black Current LLC
State of formation	Virginia
Business type	Service-disabled veteran-owned small business — SBA VetCert application in process
UEI	D3GFYXHLNTB6
CAGE code	23C91
SBIR SBC no.	SBC_002681014
NAICS	541511 Custom Computer Programming (primary) 541512 Computer Systems Design 541519 Other Computer Related Services 541715 R&D, Physical & Engineering Sciences
PSC	DA01 · DA10 · R425

Contact

Primary point of contact

Ryan Roof

Chief Executive Officer

[email protected] (703) 424-5937

Technical inquiries

Scot Renz

Chief Technology Officer

[email protected] (319) 830-2192

Documents

Capability Statement

One page — core competencies, differentiators, past performance, and company data.

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