What is Ariana Nexus's UEI and CAGE code?

Ariana Nexus LLC operates under UEI M2UDMUDFXGL9 and CAGE code 1Z3A3, with an active SAM.gov registration. Both identifiers appear on the capability statement PDF above and can be verified directly in SAM.gov. Contracting officers who need the registration record for a specific solicitation can request it through the firm's procurement pathway.

Which Afghan languages does Ariana Nexus cover?

Coverage spans 24 Afghan languages. Pashto and Dari are the highest-volume and carry a standing bench; the remaining languages are sourced on defined notice. Hazaragi is a dialect of Dari, not a separate language. Two terms worth correcting on a requirement document: Afghani is the currency, not a language, and Pashtun is the people — the language is Pashto.

Is Dari the same as Farsi?

No. Dari deliverables are Afghanistan Dari, not Iranian Persian. The two share a written tradition but diverge in everyday vocabulary, register, and technical terms, and substituting a Farsi linguist on a Dari requirement is the most common failure in this market. Ariana Nexus staffs Afghan linguists and matches the dialect — Kabuli, Herati, Badakhshani, or Hazaragi.

Do Ariana Nexus linguists hold security clearances?

The standard is credentialed, clearable. Linguists are credentialed and vetted to the firm's own standard, and clearance status is confirmed per requirement rather than advertised as a blanket claim. Where a solicitation requires a specific level, the firm states in writing what is held or sponsorable against that requirement before award.

Does Ariana Nexus have staff or operations in Afghanistan?

No — and the absence is deliberate. The firm maintains no office, no staff, and no operations inside Afghanistan. Delivery runs from the Washington–Virginia capital region. For a federal buyer this removes an entire category of duty-of-care, operational, and security exposure that an in-country footprint would place on the sponsoring agency.

Ariana Nexus Capability Statement

Q: What NAICS codes does Ariana Nexus operate under?

The primary code is NAICS 541930, Translation and Interpretation Services. The firm also operates under 541611, Administrative and General Management Consulting; 541690, Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services; and 611430, Professional and Management Development Training. It is registered as a small business, with SBA 8(a) certification in progress.

Q: Can Ariana Nexus work as a subcontractor to a prime contractor?

Yes. The firm contracts as a subcontractor or teaming partner as readily as it holds a prime position, and teaming is structured so linguistic quality control stays auditable to the prime. Business status, codes, and registration are set out above. Primes assembling a bid can request a statement scoped to the solicitation.

Cover of the Ariana Nexus FY2026 capability statement PDF — Afghan language services contractor, Washington, D.C.

Capability Statement · FY2026

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The FY2026 Afghan language capability statement: core competencies, procurement identifiers, differentiators, and point of contact on a single page. Download it, or open it in the browser.

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COMPANY DATA

Procurement identifiers, for the record.

Legal name

Ariana Nexus LLC

Unique Entity ID (UEI)

M2UDMUDFXGL9

CAGE Code

1Z3A3

Primary NAICS

541930 — Translation and Interpretation Services

Additional NAICS

541611 — Administrative and General Management Consulting · 541690 — Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services · 611430 — Professional and Management Development Training

Registrations

SAM.gov — active

Business status

Small business · SBA 8(a) certification in progress

Headquarters

1717 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 10th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20006

Operations

Washington–Virginia capital region, with primary operations in Arlington, Virginia. London and Berlin offices are planned, not open. No office and no operations in Afghanistan.

Point of contact

Via the firm's procurement pathway; the formal statement carries the point of contact.

CORE COMPETENCIES

What the firm does as an Afghan language services contractor.

Interpretation

Pashto and Dari interpretation services on site, by telephone, and by video, delivered simultaneously or consecutively. Assignments are matched by language, dialect, region of origin, and interpreter gender. Trained interpreters only, never a bilingual speaker pressed into the role.

Translation and certified documents

Certified Afghan document translation for tazkiras, birth and marriage records, diplomas and transcripts, police clearances, court files, and asylum evidence. Afghan civil documents vary by issuing era and many are handwritten; each receiving authority sets exact requirements, and production is built to meet them.

Cultural training and consulting

Afghan cultural training for government agencies and for the clinical, legal, and education staff who work with Afghan populations, plus cultural validation and sign-off through the firm's Cultural Compliance Bureau — meaning and appropriateness, not literal accuracy alone.

Compliance support

Language-access programs built to Section 1557, Title VI, and CLAS expectations: language access plan development, vital-document translation, and a documented record structured for examination by a regulator or an auditor.

AI data and model evaluation

Annotation, post-editing, RLHF sets, and adversarial red-teaming in Pashto and Dari, with the firm's cultural-hallucination controls applied to AI systems that serve these populations.

Delivered across healthcare systems, government and the public sector, AI and data systems, and research, education, and institutional partnerships.

COVERAGE

Services, languages, and sectors.

A capability statement earns its place by being specific. What follows is the working set: the services delivered, the languages held, and the institutional settings the firm operates in. Anything not listed here is not claimed.

Languages

24 Afghan languages. Pashto and Dari are the highest-volume and carry a standing bench; additional Afghan languages are sourced on defined notice. Pashto dialects include Kandahari, eastern, and central. Dari dialects include Kabuli, Herati, Badakhshani, and Hazaragi — a Dari variety, not a separate language.

Scripts and production

Pashto and Dari use Arabic-derived scripts and run right to left. Forms, portals, member letters, and print layouts break without right-to-left competent production, so typesetting and file handling are treated as part of the deliverable rather than an afterthought.

Modalities

In-person interpretation, over-the-phone interpretation, video remote interpreting, simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, certified translation, document translation, transcription and translation, voice-over and subtitling, cultural training, and cultural consulting.

Documents

Certified Pashto translation and certified Dari translation, including USCIS-certified translation, tazkira translation, Afghan birth certificate translation, marriage certificate translation (nikah nama), diploma and transcript translation, police clearance translation, court document translation, and asylum evidence translation.

Sectors

Hospitals and health systems, payer and Medicaid member materials, courts and immigration proceedings (EOIR), asylum and resettlement (ORR), school districts and IEP meetings (Title III), federal defense and OSINT linguist support, law enforcement and victim services, clinical research and informed-consent translation, and AI training data, annotation, RLHF, and model red-teaming.

Compliance frameworks

Section 1557 language access, Title VI language access, CLAS standards, Joint Commission interpreter requirements, language access plan development, and vital-documents translation.

DIFFERENTIATORS

Why this firm, for this requirement.

The Dari substitution risk.

Dari deliverables are Afghanistan Dari, not Iranian Persian. Booking a Farsi interpreter against a Dari requirement, or accepting an Iranian-Persian translation, is the most common failure in this market — and the one an agency discovers only after the record is built.

Dialect and gender matching.

Pashto splits into Kandahari, eastern, and central; Dari into Kabuli, Herati, Badakhshani, and Hazaragi, a Dari variety. Gender matters as much: in obstetric care, asylum testimony, and parent meetings, many Afghan women will not disclose through a male interpreter.

Afghan documents, read correctly.

Afghan civil records were issued under the Kingdom, the Republic, the Soviet era, the Islamic Republic, and the Islamic Emirate. Formats, seals, and naming conventions differ by era, and many records are handwritten. Reading them is a specialist skill, not a translation task.

A specialist, not a generalist.

The firm does Afghan-language work specifically: 24 languages, with the cultural depth a roster of common languages does not carry. Engagements are senior-led and run through the Five-Gate Validation Protocol and Cultural Compliance Bureau sign-off — quality assured, not assumed.

No footprint in Afghanistan.

The firm keeps no office, no staff, and no operations inside Afghanistan. That is a deliberate posture, not a gap: it removes a category of duty-of-care, operational, and security risk that an in-country footprint would place on the contracting agency.

DELIVERY

How the work is produced.

Human Intelligence Collective

Credentialed Afghan interpreters, subject-matter experts, and cultural liaisons, convened and verified inside one system.

The credentialed interpreter cohort

AI Data Factory

Annotation, post-editing, and evaluation pipelines that produce and check Pashto and Dari training data.

Afghan-language training data

Cultural Compliance Bureau

Cultural and religious review that signs off meaning and appropriateness before anything is released.

The cultural compliance standard

Five-Gate Validation Protocol

Five stages of quality assurance from ingestion to delivery, each guarding a distinct failure mode.

The five gates in detail

One chain of accountability

The three layers run under one operating model, so a single engagement carries one chain of accountability rather than three vendors and three hand-offs.

The firm's operating model

THE TEAM

Who does the work.

Engagements are senior-led. The practice leaders below hold the disciplines a requirement would run through. Degrees and institutions are stated because they are the qualification, not decoration.

Zeba Haqbani

Principal, Institutional Systems

B.A.University of British Columbia

Tamana Ghaznawi

Senior Director, Healthcare Systems Orchestration

B.S.Cornell University

M.P.H.Cornell University

Maryam Safi

Principal, Healthcare Research

B.A.Cornell University

Shukria Sakhi

Practice Leader, Cultural Compliance Bureau

B.A.Brown University

M.P.H.Brown University

Diana Ayubi

Principal, Mental Health Programs

B.A.Cornell University

Psy.D.West Chester University

ASSURANCE

Security and compliance posture.

Stated as capability and readiness, never asserted as certification. What is in effect appears first. What is on the roadmap is named as a roadmap item and nothing more.

Regulatory alignment

HIPAA, Section 1557, GDPR and UK GDPR, CCPA and CPRA, and FERPA. Alignment is mapped to the obligation that actually applies to the engagement, and the mapping is documented rather than asserted.

Operating frameworks

Zero Trust Architecture (NIST SP 800-207), the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, and the EU AI Act.

Assurance roadmap

ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27701:2019, SOC 2 Type II, NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53, HITRUST CSF, and CMMC Level 2 (targeted November 2026) sit on the assurance roadmap. None is held, certified, or accredited today, and none is offered as one.

Published evidence

Controls, mappings, and the current roadmap position are published rather than described, so a reviewer can check them instead of taking them on trust.

The evidence index The certification and audit roadmap

CONTRACTING

How to put the firm on a requirement.

Business status

A NAICS 541930 small business, registered and active in SAM.gov, also operating under 541611, 541690, and 611430. Small business · SBA 8(a) certification in progress.

Prime, subcontract, or teaming

The firm holds a prime position or works as a teaming partner in Afghan languages under a prime, and structures the arrangement so linguistic quality control stays auditable to the prime and to the agency.

Prime contractor teaming

Procurement pathways

Federal, state and local, and international routes each have their own intake, so a request arrives with the right context attached.

Federal vehicles State and local procurement International procurement

Where the work is delivered from

Afghan translation services from Washington, D.C., with primary operations in Arlington, Virginia, and Pashto and Dari linguists for federal agencies across the capital region. London and Berlin offices are planned, not open.

A statement scoped to your requirement

The PDF above is the general statement. A version scoped to a single solicitation — languages, modalities, volumes, and codes — can be requested through the procurement pathway.

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