Agile Defense, LLC

Agile Defense, LLC, a McLean, Virginia-based for-profit small business, operates as a prime contractor delivering test, evaluation, and certification services alongside enterprise IT systems integration and cybersecurity support to the Department of Defense and civilian federal agencies, with 97% of recent awards structured as prime contracts rather than subcontractor positions. The vendor competes exclusively under full-and-open (non-set-aside) contract vehicles, competing for task orders across GWACs, IDIQs, and schedules without SBA set-aside designations.

Agile Defense's customer concentration skews heavily toward defense. The top five funding agencies account for 57% of award count, anchored by the Defense Information Systems Agency (86 awards, $1.64 billion combined potential value), Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (31 awards, $97.1 million), and the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (8 awards, $90.77 billion). However, the two rankings diverge sharply: GSA's combined potential value is dominated by placeholder-ceiling IDVs rather than executed dollars. DISA, by contrast, anchors the vendor's actual obligated revenue and operational execution volume—86 delivery orders under the single-award Test, Evaluation, and Certification II (TEC II) Services IDIQ account for $358.8 million in combined potential value and represent Agile Defense's deepest and most mature customer relationship.

Agile Defense holds positions on several high-value parent vehicles. The vendor sits on the $1.01 billion DISA TEC II Services IDIQ (single award, 80 task orders through mid-2026), Alliant II GWAC (27 task orders under GSA, worth $951.1 million across Alliant Small Business sub-vehicle), the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 3 - Services (ITES-3S) IDIQ (20 task orders, $468 million), the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (18 task orders, $22.3 million), and recently awarded seats on Alliant 3 GWAC (ceiling $999,999,999,999.99, multiple-award, full-and-open, February 2026), OASIS+ Unrestricted IDIQ (ceiling $999,999,999,999.00, multiple-award, December 2024), and the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ (ceiling $151 billion, multiple-award, December 2025). The DISA TEC II vehicle alone has generated over $200 million in task orders to date.

Representative prime contracts illustrate Agile Defense's core capability footprint: a $35.1 million DISA delivery order for geospatial-intelligence test, evaluation, and certification services under TEC II (August 2024); an $80.1 million Customs and Border Protection enterprise network architecture and engineering support services task under Alliant II (September 2025); a $147.6 million Army Mission Command Support Center Network Operations Center delivery order under the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3) IDIQ (April 2023, Total Small Business set-aside despite the vendor's non-set-aside profile); a $120.7 million Air Force Global Application Delivery Network services order under Alliant II (May 2022); a $66.6 million TRADOC Cloud and Ancillary Support Services delivery order under ITES-3S (August 2022); and a $55.8 million Army PEO Aviation labor-base-and-transition delivery order under ITES-3S (November 2021). Work spans test and evaluation of defense business systems, enterprise IT operations and system administration, cybersecurity assessment, network operations, web applications development, and IT modernization—concentrated in developmental and operational testing methodologies aligned with Department of Defense test policies.

Activity accelerated sharply in FY2024, with 70 awards compared to single-digit annual counts from FY2022–FY2023 (10, 8, and 13 awards in 2022, 2023, and 2025 respectively, with 9 awards recorded in early 2026). This trajectory reflects expanded ordering against newly awarded GWACs and IDIQs, particularly DISA TEC II. Twenty-two awards (combined potential value $603.2 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore present recompete exposure for the vendor or opportunity for competitors.

The vendor operates predominantly as a prime delivering its own labor, but engages subcontractors strategically. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average of 28% of contractor hours, with 80 named subcontractors reported across the prime portfolio. Named recurring subs include Nemean Solutions LLC (8(a) Native Hawaiian Organization small business, instrumentation and test-and-evaluation labor on DISA TEC II work), Sienna Systems Corp (SDVOSB, developmental test and evaluation), Digital Consultants LLC (SBA 8(a) small disadvantaged business, systems administration and test labor), Nextgen Federal Systems LLC (HUBZone small business, test planning and infrastructure), Five Stones Research Corporation (women-owned small business, web applications and test labor), F2 Systems LLC (women-owned small business, standards conformance testing), and BMA Technical Services Inc. (SDVOSB, test infrastructure support). On larger Alliant II orders such as the $80.1 million CBP enterprise network order (September 2025), Agile Defense subcontracts to Sev1Tech LLC (HUBZone joint venture), 3G Federal Solutions LLC (8(a) SDB), Netone LLC (VOSB and SDVOSB), Implicit Solutions LLC (VOSB and SDVOSB), and Inetwork & Associates LLC, among others—reflecting a multi-vendor labor subcontracting strategy for extended capacity.

Service Contract Inventory data captures only SCI-reportable prime contracts above the $150,000 threshold, excluding goods, classified work, and non-federal revenue. SCI-invoiced revenue across the fiscal-year range totaled $378.8 million (FY2022: $69.6 million, FY2023: $112.4 million, FY2024: $90 million, FY2025: $106.7 million). The FY2024 dip reflects contract mix shifts and workforce scaling across new vehicles; FY2025 recovery indicates ramp-up on recently awarded delivery orders. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts run a median of $92.39 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $55.47/hr and the 90th percentile at $230.76/hr, reflecting a labor mix spanning systems administrators, technical writers, and senior subject matter experts. The vendor reported 520 FTEs in FY2025 against SCI contracts, up from 439 in FY2024—consistent with the acceleration in delivery order counts and obligation levels. GSA Schedule labor offerings span 69 categories from Administrative Assistant I ($31.67/hr, high school education) through Principal Subject Matter Expert ($241.78/hr, Master's degree, 18 years experience), with no security-cleared roles on the public schedule.

Agile Defense maintains one named subsidiary, XOR Security LLC, structured as a for-profit limited liability company. The corporate structure and subsidiary naming suggest cybersecurity-focused capability expansion, though award detail in the source does not attribute specific work to the subsidiary.

In recent sub-award activity (FY2024–FY2026), Agile Defense appears as a subcontractor to Peraton Inc. (Army Global Cyber Center IT Support, January 2026), Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (NETC Technical Support and cyber services, October 2025 and January 2025), Favor Techconsulting LLC (BLS LAN/WAN infrastructure and IT help desk, September 2025), and ManTech Advanced Systems International Inc. (custom design services, August 2024), indicating selective subcontracting under larger defense primes—a minority posture consistent with the 97% prime-contract orientation across the portfolio.