AS11345 AKIMA-MANAGEMENT-SERVICES

AKIMA-MANAGEMENT-SERVICES is held by Akima Management Services, Inc., part of Akima LLC — the federal-services holding company of NANA, an Alaska Native Regional Corporation owned by Iñupiat shareholders. Akima runs its federal-sector business (IT, logistics, base operations, aviation, facilities, protective services) from Herndon, Virginia and is a top-100 US government contractor. RIS sees 1 IPv4 prefix, 256 addresses, no IPv6, and 2 observed neighbours.

What it's used for

A corporate edge, and only that. The single announced block, 204.114.9.0/24, is registered in ARIN to Akima Management Services itself under the handle AKIMA-LLC-24. Two BGP neighbours and a /24 is a dual-homed stub: the company holds portable space so it can keep two transit contracts without renumbering. Nothing here is sold, hosted or carried on anyone else's behalf.

Notable

The classification is deliberately business, not government. Akima's customers are federal agencies, but the network is a private corporation's own perimeter — not an agency network, not a .mil or .gov enclave, and not classified space. Confusing a contractor with the government it serves is the same class of error as reading a famous-looking handle as the famous organisation, and the routing evidence gives no reason to make it: a single self-registered /24 behind two upstreams looks like every other mid-size enterprise in this range.

Interesting

The address count says nothing about the size of the company. Akima is a multi-billion-dollar group with tens of thousands of employees spread across federal sites nationwide, but those people work on the government's networks at the government's facilities. What Akima needs public addresses for is its own headquarters perimeter — mail, VPN, a corporate web presence — which fits comfortably in 256 addresses. None of the two addresses sampled returned a PTR; that is a sample, and we build nothing on it.