AS11006 HRT-SCS

HRT-SCS belongs to HRTec, short for Human Resources Technologies, Inc., a small federal-contracting firm at 5400 Shawnee Road, Alexandria, Virginia. The handle is not an abbreviation of the company alone: SCS is its HRT-Secure Cloud Service, the compliance-focused government cloud (marketed as FedHIVE) that this AS exists to carry.

What it's used for

Government cloud hosting. HRTec has run managed telecoms and, later, SaaS and IaaS/PaaS services for federal customers, and its cloud carries a FedRAMP High authorisation for use by agencies including DoD, DHS and GSA. Routing matches a single-service hosting operation rather than a carrier: RIS sees 1 observed neighbour, so the AS sits behind one upstream and sells no transit.

Notable

The routing footprint is unusual. RIS sees no IPv4 prefixes at all and 2 IPv6 prefixes, 2604:6940::/32 and 2604:6940:80::/41. An AS announcing only IPv6 is rare outside research and experimental networks, and it means the IPv4 service addresses customers actually reach are announced by someone else, most likely a hosting or carrier partner. Because there is no IPv4 in the table, there is also no IPv4 registrant data to cross-check against the holder, so this card leans on the registry and the company record rather than on prefix ownership.

Interesting

The handle is a trap worth naming: HRT in finance usually means Hudson River Trading. It does not here. ARIN registered this ASN to HRTec in August 2017, with its contact records created the same summer, so the low number reflects a returned ASN put back into circulation rather than an early-internet allocation.