Capability Statement · FY2026

Afghan Language Services Contractor: Ariana Nexus Capability Statement

Ariana Nexus is an Afghan language services contractor and management consulting firm registered and active in SAM.gov under UEI M2UDMUDFXGL9 and CAGE 1Z3A3, primary NAICS 541611. The firm delivers Afghan interpretation, certified translation, cultural intelligence, language-access compliance, and AI data across 24 Afghan languages, from Washington, D.C.

M2UDMUDFXGL9

UEI

1Z3A3

CAGE

541611

Primary NAICS

Afghan languages

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Procurement identifiers, for the record.

Everything a contracting officer needs to register the firm against a requirement, on one screen. No form, no gate.

Legal name

Ariana Nexus LLC

Unique Entity ID (UEI)

M2UDMUDFXGL9

CAGE Code

1Z3A3

Primary NAICS

541611 — Administrative and General Management Consulting Services

Additional NAICS

541930 — Translation and Interpretation Services · 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

Run entirely from the Washington, D.C. office, with engagements delivered nationwide and internationally. 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. Anything not listed here is not claimed.

Interpretation

Pashto and Dari interpretation 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.

Pashto interpreter · Dari interpreter · video remote interpreting · simultaneous interpretation

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.

certified Pashto translation · tazkira translation · USCIS certified translation · Afghan birth certificate translation

Cultural intelligence 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.

Afghan cultural competency training · cultural validation · Afghan cultural advisor

Compliance and language access

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.

Section 1557 language access plan · Title VI language access · language access audit · CLAS standards

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.

Pashto training data · Dari speech dataset · RLHF Pashto · red teaming low-resource languages

Delivered across six industries

Language services are not a separate business line. Interpretation, translation, cultural review, and data work sit inside the industry that buys them, delivered to that sector’s standard.

Technology, AI, and Digital Platforms

Pashto and Dari training data, LLM evaluation and cultural red-teaming, and AI governance advisory for platforms and frontier labs operating in low-resource Afghan languages.

Pashto training data · Dari speech dataset · RLHF Pashto · AI governance advisory

Healthcare and Life Sciences

Qualified Pashto and Dari medical interpreters, certified translation of vital documents, and Section 1557 language-access programs documented to survive an audit.

hospital interpreter services · Pashto medical interpreter · informed consent translation Dari

Government and Public Sector

Credentialed, clearable Pashto and Dari linguists, resettlement and asylum operations, identity and document authentication, and diplomatic interpretation for agencies and prime contractors.

Pashto linguists for government · clearable Afghan linguists · ORR language services · DLITE Pashto

Legal, Regulatory, and Justice

Court and asylum interpretation, certified translation of tazkira and civil records, Afghan document analysis, and expert testimony for U.S. counsel.

Pashto court interpreter · EOIR interpreter Dari · Afghan document expert witness

Education and Research

School-district interpreters and family-facing translation, cultural training for staff, and academic and policy research partnerships across the Afghan diaspora.

Pashto school interpreter · IEP meeting interpreter Dari · parent notification translation

Private Enterprise

Bookkeeping, payroll, tax filing and ITIN support, business formation, and certified financial translation for Afghan-owned businesses and employers with Afghan workforces.

Afghan tax preparer · Pashto speaking accountant · ITIN application help

Services, languages, and settings.

A capability statement earns its place by being specific. What follows is the working set.

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.

Settings

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.

Why this firm, for this requirement.

Five failure modes this market produces, and the posture that removes each one.

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.

How the work is produced.

Three governed layers and a five-gate protocol under one operating model, so a single engagement carries one chain of accountability rather than three vendors and three hand-offs.

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

Who does the work.

Engagements are senior-led, and the practitioners below are Afghan. That combination is the firm’s hardest-to-copy asset: a language vendor can hire Afghan speakers, and a consulting firm can hire graduate-credentialed specialists, but Afghan-context work needs both in the same person. Degrees and institutions are stated because in this market they are the qualification, not decoration.

Afghan-led and Afghan-operated

The people who set the standard are the people the standard is about — not a Western firm interpreting Afghan context at one remove.

Graduate-credentialed

Practitioners hold bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Brown University, Cornell University, Milli University, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, the University of British Columbia, the University of Chicago, and West Chester University, applied to Afghan context rather than to a general language roster.

Produced in-house

No subcontractors. Every part of every engagement is produced by the firm’s own people, under one chain of accountability.

Depth, not breadth

Afghan context is the whole business, not one row in a hundred-language catalogue. Twenty-four languages, with the dialect and cultural depth a general roster does not carry.

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

In effect

HIPAA, Section 1557, Title VI, 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

In effect

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

Roadmap — not held

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). None is held, certified, or accredited today, and none is offered as one.

Published evidence

Public

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

How to put the firm on a requirement.

Prime, subcontract, or teaming — through the pathway that fits the vehicle.

Business status

A small business registered and active in SAM.gov under primary NAICS 541611, also operating under 541930, 541690, and 611430. 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 delivered from Washington, D.C., with Pashto and Dari linguists for federal agencies in the capital and across the country. 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.

Request a capability assessment

Questions contracting officers ask.

Answered in full on the page, so nothing has to be requested to be verified.

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.

What NAICS codes does Ariana Nexus operate under?

The primary code is NAICS 541611, Administrative and General Management Consulting Services. The firm also operates under 541930, Translation and Interpretation Services; 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.

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.

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.

Do Ariana Nexus linguists hold security clearances?

The standard is credentialed and clearable. Linguists are credentialed, verified, and prepared for sponsorship where a requirement calls for a clearance; the firm does not claim held clearances it does not hold. Clearance status for a specific requirement is confirmed through the procurement pathway.

Put the firm on a requirement.

If the scope involves Afghan languages and the record has to hold, the next step is a scoped conversation. Scoping begins under NDA.

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REGULATORY ALIGNMENT

HIPAA · Section 1557 · GDPR / UK GDPR · CCPA / CPRA · FERPA

OPERATING FRAMEWORKS

Zero Trust Architecture (NIST SP 800-207) · NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 · NIST AI Risk Management Framework · ISO/IEC 42001:2023 · 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