US Government

The Missing Layer: Why “Who Got Paid” and “Who’s on a Visa” Never Connect

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Take2 Consulting received $512 million in federal subaward revenue and files zero H-1B applications. Raas Infotek is an active, ranked H-1B sponsor and doesn’t appear anywhere in federal contract or subaward data. These aren’t two unrelated curiosities — they’re the same gap, viewed from opposite sides. Federal spending disclosure stops at the first subcontractor tier. Visa disclosure stops at the sponsoring employer. Nothing connects the two, for any company, by design.

https://guestworkervisas.com/transparency_gap_take2_raas_infotek.html

Oracle Health Government Services: $6.93 Billion, a Broken VA Contract, and a Name Nobody Recognizes

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The company ranked sixth in federal IT spending in FY2026 was formerly called Cerner Government Services — a name that no longer appears in procurement records. Rebranded after Oracle’s $28.3 billion acquisition closed in 2022, it now holds a contract worth up to $16 billion to digitize the medical records of every American veteran. That project has been plagued by patient safety failures, a deployment pause, a bribery prosecution of the VA official who oversaw it, and a congressional push for contract termination. Now the same company has won a new $396 million contract to rebuild the federal government’s entire HR infrastructure — while Oracle’s chairman sits on the President’s science and technology council.

https://guestworkervisas.com/oracle_health_government_services_report.php

ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC

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ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC is classified as a Foreign-Owned Business Incorporated in the U.S. in USASpending.gov procurement records. Its ultimate parent, NOVETTA SOLUTIONS, LLC, is headquartered outside the United States. In FY2026, the firm received $10.29B in federal IT contracts across 276 award records, making it one of the largest foreign-owned recipients of federal custom programming and IT services spending.

USASpending.gov records for this firm have historically listed the parent entity as Novetta Solutions — a separate company acquired by Accenture in 2021 — rather than Accenture PLC. This mismatch between the SAM.gov-registered parent and the actual ultimate parent understates the true concentration of foreign-parent federal contract dollars when analyzing by ultimate owner.

https://guestworkervisas.com/accenture_federal_services_report.php

$27.6 billion in federal custom programming — and $1.63 billion of it goes to firms at residential addresses in Virginia suburbs

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Two threads from this analysis that connect directly to your existing work: first, Deloitte appears as a subcontractor under GDIT ($26.5M), which ties back to the Deloitte H-1B/OPM thread we were building earlier. Second, the VA has $2.08B in custom programming contracts in this dataset — and your AITC investigation documented the exact H-1B vendor ecosystem sitting inside that spend. The ELEKS/Iraqi military contract is completely standalone, but the Gainesville cluster and the set-aside concentration are the stories most directly relevant to the American worker displacement angle that anchors your site.

https://guestworkervisas.com/federal_custom_programming_2026.php

In 2016, two VA employees nearly handed the complete health records of every veteran who had ever used VA healthcare — including DNA from the Million Veteran Program — to a private AI startup called Flow Health.

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In 2016, two VA employees nearly handed the complete health records of every veteran who had ever used VA healthcare — including DNA from the Million Veteran Program — to a private AI startup called Flow Health. VA leadership found out when the company issued a press release.

The VA Inspector General spent four years investigating. They documented at least five specific false statements made to the approving official. DOJ declined to prosecute. Both employees were still at VA when the report was published in January 2021.

This is Part 2 of our three-part investigation into a decade of VA data security failures.

https://guestworkervisas.com/va_flowhealth_crada.php

In October 2016, two VA employees — one from OIT, one from VHA — nearly handed the complete health records of every veteran who had ever used VA healthcare to a private AI company called Flow Health.

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This is a remarkable document to put alongside everything else we’ve been working on. Let me tell you what stands out.

What this report actually describes

In October 2016, two VA employees — one from OIT, one from VHA — nearly handed the complete health records of every veteran who had ever used VA healthcare to a private AI company called Flow Health. Not a sample. Not de-identified data. Everything — clinical notes, pharmacy records, lab results, radiology, genomic data from the Million Veteran Program, linked to individually identifiable information. Five years of ongoing data transfers. The only reason it didn’t happen was that Flow Health issued a press release bragging about it, which is how VA leadership found out the deal existed.

The connection to what we documented earlier

The 2015 OIG report (13-01730-159) that anchors our H-1B research found that the same OIT Austin facility had contractors accessing veteran data from China and India on unencrypted personal laptops, with administrator access to the exact same systems — the VBA Data Warehouse, Health Data Repository, My HealtheVet, Loan Guaranty Service. The OIG concluded there was no way to know what had been taken or whether that laptop left in China was still being used to access VA networks.

Now this 2021 report shows that just three years later, different people within the same OIT structure were actively trying to give all of that same data — and more, including genomic data — to a private company, while lying to their own approving official about whether privacy reviews had been completed. They were forwarding the privacy officers’ objection emails directly to the Flow Health CEO while they were on the phone with him. The OIG literally could not determine why they did it.

The DOJ declined to prosecute. Both employees remained employed at VA through at least January 2021 when the report was published — four years after the incident.

What these two reports together say

The 2015 report shows the door to veteran data was left open internationally through negligence and indifference. The 2016/2021 report shows someone inside was actively trying to hand the data out the front door to a private AI company while silencing the people raising alarms. In between those two events, the VA was placing H-1B workers — some from the same countries where unauthorized access had occurred — into that same facility through a subcontracting chain where the prime contractor didn’t know who the sub-vendors were.

The thread running through all three of your OIG reports is the same: the people responsible for protecting veteran data either didn’t care, actively worked against protection, or were structurally invisible to the people who were supposed to be overseeing them.

For your blog and research

This third OIG report is highly relevant to add to the VA AITC piece. The Flow Health incident involved OIT’s Office of Architecture, Strategy and Design — the same OIT structure that runs AITC. The report explicitly notes that ASD had no policies or procedures governing CRADAs. That’s the same culture of policy vacuum that the 2015 report documented — security staff who wouldn’t block something unless there was a written policy specifically prohibiting it, even when common sense screamed otherwise.

The three reports together form a coherent picture: 2013-2015 unauthorized foreign access, 2016 attempted mass data handoff to private AI company, 2025-2026 same vendor ecosystem still placing workers in the same facility. That’s a decade-long pattern, documented entirely in the VA’s own Inspector General reports, that any congressional staffer or journalist should be able to follow.

VAOIG-17-01980-201

Who is placing H-1B workers inside the VA Austin IT Center — the facility that controls veterans’ health records, financial data, and benefit systems for the entire country?

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We cross-referenced FY2026 H-1B visa filings against VA OIG Report 13-01730-159, the 2015 federal investigation that found contractors accessing VA systems from China and India on unencrypted personal laptops. Several of the same vendors are still filing H-1B applications for the same facility today.

Read the full investigation: https://guestworkervisas.com/va_aitc_h1b_report.php

How One H-1B Filing Led Us Down a $400 Million Rabbit Hole at the FDA — and Right Into the Bureau of Labor Statistics

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It started with a single piece of paper.

A company called iStream Solutions, Inc., based in Ashburn, Virginia, filed an H-1B visa application on March 16, 2026, for a worker with the job title “Software Architect.” The application was certified a week later. The worker’s salary was set at exactly $150,758 per year — not a dollar more than the prevailing wage required by law.

That last detail matters. When an employer pays exactly the prevailing wage and not a cent above it, they are doing the legal minimum. They are not competing for talent. They are using the visa program to lock in a price.

But here is what made this filing worth following: the worksite listed on the application was not iStream Solutions’ office in Ashburn. The worksite was 4600 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, Maryland — the headquarters of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The BLS is the agency that publishes the unemployment numbers, the jobs reports, and the wage data that the rest of this site is built on. Every month, when the government announces how many jobs were created or lost, that number comes from BLS. And according to this H-1B filing, a worker employed by an H-1B-dependent IT staffing company is doing software architecture work inside that building right now.

That was interesting enough. But the H-1B filing also told us something else — iStream Solutions is flagged as an H-1B dependent employer. That is a legal designation that means the majority of the company’s workforce is made up of H-1B visa holders. Companies with that designation are supposed to face additional requirements before they can bring in more foreign workers. They are supposed to certify that they tried to hire Americans first.

The application says they did. We have no way to verify that.

Following the Money

When we looked iStream Solutions up in USASpending.gov — the federal government’s official database of contract awards — we found something unexpected.

For a company that has been operating since 2005, placing IT workers in federal agencies, iStream Solutions has almost no footprint as a prime contractor. Their entire direct contract history amounts to a GSA schedule listing worth $0 in actual obligations, a $500 test order from the Missile Defense Agency, and a COVID PPP loan.

Five hundred dollars. That is the sum total of what the federal government has paid iStream Solutions directly.

But then we looked at the subaward records — the contracts-underneath-the-contracts — and found something very different. Six payments, all from the same contract, all for the same work: “software lifecycle activities and deliverables required by FDA.” Total paid to iStream as a subcontractor: $16.3 million, running continuously from 2021 through May 2026.

The prime contractor — the company that won the FDA contract and hired iStream to do the work — is REI Systems, Inc., based in Sterling, Virginia.

REI Systems: The Company in the Middle

REI Systems is not a small shop. When we pulled their full federal contract history, we found $592 million in obligated contracts across 85 awards, spanning GSA, HHS, NASA, the Treasury Department, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Defense, and more.

Their biggest single contract relationship is with the Food and Drug Administration. In May 2021, the FDA awarded REI Systems an Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity contract — contract number 75F40121A00019 — to provide software development, operations, and maintenance for FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs systems, including their criminal investigations and imports enforcement platforms. The ceiling on that contract is $400 million.

Under that contract, REI Systems has collected at least $113 million through three visible task orders so far. And under those task orders, REI Systems paid iStream Solutions $16.3 million to provide the workers who actually do the software work.

So the structure looks like this:

FDA pays REI Systems → REI Systems pays iStream Solutions → iStream Solutions pays an H-1B worker → that worker shows up at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Each layer takes a cut. The worker at the end of the chain receives exactly the legal minimum wage for their position.

Why This Matters

This is not a story about one company or one contract. This is how a very large portion of federal IT staffing actually works.

A medium-to-large federal contractor — in this case REI Systems — wins a big contract from a federal agency. The contract is broad enough to cover many types of software work. The prime contractor then subcontracts portions of the actual work to smaller IT staffing firms. Those staffing firms — like iStream — are often H-1B dependent, meaning their business model depends on placing foreign workers rather than hiring American software developers.

The H-1B filing is the one mandatory public disclosure that names the staffing firm. Without it, you would never know iStream was involved. REI Systems shows up in USASpending. iStream does not — at least not as a prime contractor. The only way to find them is through the subaward records, which are poorly reported and rarely searched, or through the H-1B Labor Condition Application database, which most people don’t know exists.

We found them because we were looking at a single H-1B filing that happened to name the Bureau of Labor Statistics as the worksite.

One More Detail Worth Noting

Among REI Systems’ 85 federal contracts is this one: contract 47QDCB20F0018, awarded by the General Services Administration, obligated value $52 million, for the development, operations, and maintenance of SAM.gov — the federal government’s own contracting transparency database. The same database where the public is supposed to be able to look up who is getting federal contracts and for how much.

The company that helps build and maintain that transparency system is also the prime contractor whose subcontractor is staffing H-1B workers into the agency that publishes America’s jobs numbers.

We are not suggesting that is improper. We are saying it is worth knowing.

All of the source documents for this post are public record. The H-1B filing is case number I-200-26075-706343, available through the Department of Labor’s LCA disclosure database. The USASpending records were downloaded directly from usaspending.gov. REI Systems’ contract history is searchable by their UEI number YRNMVN96JC17. iStream Solutions’ UEI is LUNZWEKSRN76.

Virgil Bierschwale — GuestWorkerVisas.com

Federal Government Spending with the keyword Staffing for 2026

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Ironic isn’t it?

The Texas Workforce Commission operating under the watchful eyes of the Attorney General received the second largest expenditure of Unemployment Insurance from the federal government to help get Texans off of unemployment and to sustain them until they do get off.

Many unemployable Texans like myself did not receive unemployment and are still unemployed even though we have graduated from multiple retraining programs.

But as you have seen by my other work, the Texas Workforce Commission has a lot of foreign contractors and foreign employees leaving Texans high and dry or essentially floating down the river of ???? without a paddle.

This report shows all U.S. Government agencies with the keyword staffing for 2026. I think you might want to read it.

guestworkervisas.com/gov_staffing_s