At the tip of the spear.
Calibration-grade rigor. Audit-tested quality systems. Federal-contracting fluency. Cingilek is a service-disabled veteran-owned consultancy built for the programs that cannot afford to fail.
Cingilek (CHING-ee-luck) is the Yup'ik word for spearpoint — the name given to our founder by the people of Emmonak when they adopted him into the tribe. It tells you how we work: precision-trained, dialed in to the details that matter, and willing to take the lead on problems other firms won't.
Service-disabled veteran-owned. SBA VetCert application in progress; SDVOSB set-aside eligibility begins when VetCert is complete. Teaming and consulting engagements are available now.
Mission, vision, and purpose — in plain language
Three statements, no marketing varnish. If we lose sight of any of them, we have lost the firm.
To close the gap between regulated programs and the operational discipline they require — through advice the operator team can own when we leave.
A consultancy that earns trust by running the kind of programs it advises on. Calibration. Quality. Federal contracts. Austere operations. AI. Same standard in each.
Too many good firms lose contracts they should win, fail audits they should pass, and burn out the teams they should have built. We exist to close that gap.
Five disciplines, one standard of rigor
Cingilek is a consultancy — not a lab or a supplier. We design the systems, programs, and strategies that let regulated and austere-environment operations run with confidence.
Operations & Logistics Consulting
Process and supply discipline for remote, austere, and regulated programs.
Operational Forensics & Shareholder Protection
Board-directed operational review that no department can gate-keep.
Federal Contracting Strategy
Service-disabled veteran-owned, with 8(a) / ANC and Buy Indian Act teaming pathways.
Quality Management Systems
QMS design, implementation, and audit readiness.
Metrology & Calibration Program Design
Traceable measurement programs built for compliance.
Track record from running the programs we now advise on
Cingilek's track record is an operator's track record. Four operating eras — military logistics, commercial brokering, an ISO/IEC 17025 lab, and an Alaska Native village corporation — same standard in each.
Twenty years active duty — enlisted TMDE calibrator to commissioned logistics officer serving with U.S. Army Special Forces. Bronze Star Medal (×2). Permanent wear of the Special Forces Regimental Distinctive Insignia. K9 Special Operations Logistician ASI. Demonstrated Master Logistician; COR/QAE; performance-based logistics; federal service-contract oversight.
Associate broker on a Phoenix desk inside one of the largest U.S. wholesale brokerages — placing excess & surplus, professional, and casualty risk across admitted and non-admitted markets under licensed supervision.
As COO, rebuilt the quality-management system, calibration recall, and CAPA program against the 2017 standard — while running the operational turnaround alongside the lab team.
As President & CEO: financial audits and investigations, governance and board-reporting restructure, multi-figure land-deal negotiation, statutory-agent and corporate-secretary duties across the corporate family. Last externally rated assignment (Director of Community, New Reach): top rating across every measured competency, 91% member-success against a 90% target, 95% retention, +20 hires onboarded in weeks.
Four operating eras — Army logistics, commercial wholesale brokering, an ISO/IEC 17025 calibration laboratory, and an Alaska Native village corporation. Detailed past-performance available under a mutual NDA.
Operator-grade advice. Not theory. Not a template.
Cingilek is led by Jason Wagner — a retired U.S. Army Major, calibration technician turned logistics officer serving with U.S. Army Special Forces, who today serves as COO of an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited calibration laboratory and as President & CEO of an Alaska Native Corporation.
You get recommendations grounded in what actually passes an audit, wins a contract, and keeps a remote operation running when the next delivery is weeks away.
About the founderWe sell advice, never product. No conflicts of interest.
Systems built to survive accreditation and customer audits.
Service-disabled veteran-owned, with 8(a)/ANC and Buy Indian Act teaming pathways.
Operations discipline for remote and resource-limited sites.
Have a program that cannot afford to fail?
Tell us about your operations, federal, quality, or metrology challenge. We will tell you candidly whether — and how — we can help. No retainer to find out.