DLH Holdings Corp. (DLHC)
Technology and research services for federal agencies. Read November 11, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed December 10, 2025. Ranked 13 of the 275 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
47%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
68%
Employees, annual report
2,300
Leading staffing pattern
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now47%
- End of 202763%
- End of 202868%
- End of 203069%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 31%
- Becomes checking a model's work 58%
- Handed over with lighter checks 9%
A federal services contractor whose filing states one total and describes several kinds of professional work.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 47% now, 63% at the end of 2027, 68% at the end of 2028, 69% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 69% desk work, 20% people work and 12% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 31% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 58% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
2,300 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). The filing describes employees performing throughout the U.S. and no operations abroad.
The filing: “As of September 30, 2025, we employed approximately 2,300 employees performing throughout the U.S.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | 100% | By description (c): technology solutions, research and readiness services for federal civilian and military agencies, work that spans computer systems design, research and consulting, so the subsector is read; no count by kind of work. |
What the filing says about the workforce: One total. The filing describes service to military members, veterans, children and families through federal agencies.
What the filing says about AI
6 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing lists artificial intelligence and machine learning among the tools and capabilities it brings to federal customers.
- “We bring a unique combination of government sector experience, proven methodology, and unwavering commitment to solve the complex problems faced by civilian and military customers alike, doing so by leveraging multiple capabilities, including cyber technology, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, cloud-based applications, and telehealth systems.”
- “Our suite of tools includes artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud enablement, cybersecurity ecosystem, big data analytics, and modeling and simulation.”
- “As the breadth and complexity of this infrastructure continues to grow, including as a result of the increasing reliance on, and use of, mobile technologies, social media and cloud-based services, as more of our employees continue to work remotely, and as cyberattacks become increasingly sophisticated (e.g. deepfakes and AI generated social engineering), the risk of security incidents and cyber...”
- “Threat actors may leverage emerging AI technologies to develop new hacking tools and attack vectors, exploit vulnerabilities, obscure their activities, and increase the difficulty of threat attribution.”
- “We bring a unique combination of government sector experience, proven methodologies, and unwavering commitment to solve the complex problems faced by civilian and military customers alike, doing so by leveraging a robust capability set, including cyber technology, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, cloud-based applications, and telehealth systems.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20211median 0
- Fiscal 20222median 0
- Fiscal 20232median 1
- Fiscal 20245median 4
- Fiscal 20256median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2,300 | 2025-12-10 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 2,800 | 2024-12-04 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 3,200 | 2023-12-06 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 2,400 | 2022-12-05 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 2,300 | 2021-12-06 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 2,200 | 2020-12-07 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 1,900 | 2019-12-11 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 1,500 | 2018-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 1,400 | 2017-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 1,400 | 2016-12-09 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-30 | 1,250 | 2015-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-30 | 1,200 | 2014-12-10 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-30 | 1,100 | 2013-12-10 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 1,100 | 2012-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 910 | 2011-12-02 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-30 | 37 | 2011-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-30 | 45 | 2010-01-19 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-30 | 64 | 2008-12-23 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-30 | 98 | 2008-01-16 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 122 | 2006-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2005-09-30 | 149 | 2005-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2004-09-30 | 112 | 2004-12-23 | 10-K |
| 2003-09-30 | 245 | 2003-12-23 | 10-K |
| 2002-09-30 | 282 | 2003-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2001-09-30 | 286 | 2002-01-14 | 10-K |
| 2000-09-30 | 263 | 2001-01-16 | 10-K |
| 1999-09-30 | 176 | 2000-01-13 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-09-30 | 122 | 1999-01-12 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-09-30 | 117 | 1998-01-12 | 10-K |
| 1996-09-30 | 133 | 1997-01-13 | 10-K |
| 1995-09-30 | 152 | 1996-01-16 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Read at the subsector because the services span several of its groups and the filing counts none of them.
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 from the filing's description, not from a count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000785557-25-000159, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.2 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of DLH Holdings Corp.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 47% now and 68% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce DLH Holdings Corp.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does DLH Holdings Corp. employ?
- 2,300 as of September 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up DLH Holdings Corp.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services; by those patterns the work is about 69% desk work, 20% people work and 12% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does DLH Holdings Corp.'s annual report say about AI?
- 6 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 1, 2, 2, 5 and 6 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.2 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 11, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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