Agile Defense, LLC

Agile Defense, LLC operates as a small business prime contractor (97% of awards) delivering test, evaluation, certification, and IT services to the Department of Defense, civilian agencies, and GSA on full-and-open vehicles with no set-aside designations. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the company competes across multiple contract vehicles including the $1.01 billion DISA Test, Evaluation, and Certification II (TEC II) Services IDIQ, the Alliant 3 GWAC, OASIS+ Unrestricted IDIQ, GSA Multiple Award Schedule, and the newly awarded $151 billion SHIELD IDIQ with the Missile Defense Agency.

Agile Defense's customer concentration is extreme and defense-heavy. The top five funding agencies account for 57% of awards by count; by dollar value, the distribution is more skewed. DISA dominates by award count (83 awards, $1.66 billion combined potential value), anchoring the company's footprint through the TEC II single-award vehicle that has generated over $200 million in task orders supporting developmental testing, operational testing, interoperability testing, standards conformance assessment, and cybersecurity evaluations across DoD. The Naval Information Warfare Systems Command holds 31 awards ($97.3 million). However, GSA Federal Acquisition Service dominates potential value — eight awards carrying $90.77 billion in combined ceiling, driven by three GWACs and IDIQs: Alliant 3 (multiple award, no specified ceiling), OASIS+ Unrestricted (multiple award, $999.999 trillion placeholder ceiling), and the recently awarded SHIELD (multiple award, $151 billion ceiling). The Department of the Army Materiel Command's two awards carry $37.4 billion in combined potential. This portfolio shows outsized exposure to indefinite delivery vehicles with high ceilings relative to actual obligated dollars ($1.51 billion obligated against $164.76 billion in combined potential value, or 1% utilization).

Recent activity has grown sharply. Awards per year climbed from nine in 2022 to seventy in 2024, then moderated to thirteen in 2025 and four through April 2026. This trajectory reflects the timing of major IDIQ awards: the Alliant 3 GWAC (February 2026, $999.999 trillion placeholder), OASIS+ Unrestricted IDIQ (December 2024, $999.999 trillion placeholder), and SHIELD (December 2025, $151 billion). Sixteen awards with combined potential value of $275 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing task orders to recompete across Fort Huachuca-based DISA work, Army and Navy programs, and civilian IT initiatives.

Agile Defense's capability portfolio centers on test, evaluation, and certification (TEC) services supporting defense system development and fielding. Representative contracts include a $35.03 million TEC II delivery order for geospatial-intelligence test, evaluation, and certification services with DISA (August 2024, cost-plus-fixed-fee, Fort Huachuca); a $31.3 million Air Force Research Laboratory IT services delivery order under ITES-3S (August 2021, firm fixed price, Arlington); a $142.66 million Mission Command Support Center Network Operations delivery order under the RS3 IDIQ with Army PEO Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (April 2023, firm fixed price and cost-plus-fixed-fee, Reston); a $120.7 million Global Application Delivery Network delivery order with Air Force Electronic Systems Center under Alliant II (May 2022, time-and-materials, McLean); and a $80.1 million Customs and Border Protection Enterprise Network Architecture and Engineering Support Services delivery order under Alliant II (September 2025, firm fixed price, Chantilly). Across these contracts, work encompasses systems administration, cybersecurity assessment, network operations, systems integration, enterprise applications sustainment, and labor-intensive test support at Fort Huachuca and customer locations. The company also holds positions on civilian vehicles including a Smithsonian Institution SOC incident response order ($498 thousand, June 2023, labor-hours, Washington DC) and a Transportation Security Administration TSII systems integration delivery order ($14.1 million, September 2021, Total Small Business set-aside, Washington DC).

SCI-reported federal services invoicing totaled $272.1 million across FY2022–FY2024: $69.6 million in FY2022 (1,460 FTEs), $112.4 million in FY2023 (329 FTEs), and $90 million in FY2024 (439 FTEs). The sharp FTE decline from FY2023 to FY2024 signals a shift toward higher-margin or lower-labor-intensity work. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates span from a 10th percentile of $60.86/hr to a median of $99.42/hr to a 90th percentile of $243.40/hr, reflecting a mix of engineer, technician, and program-management labor. The GSA Schedule offers sixty-nine labor categories from Admin Assistant I at $30.99/hr through Principal Subject Matter Expert at $236.58/hr, with most mid-tier technical roles (systems administrator, web engineer, programmer) clustering in the $75–$135/hr range. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed an average of 31% of contractor hours, with sixty named subcontractors engaged across the portfolio.

Agile Defense operates predominantly through subcontracting relationships rather than as a self-deliver shop on larger primes. Named subcontractors include Nemean Solutions LLC (8(a) Native Hawaiian Organization small business, providing instrumentation and labor support on DISA TEC II work), Sienna Systems Corp (Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, supporting developmental test and evaluation and application management on multiple DISA and Army orders), Digital Consultants LLC (SBA-certified 8(a) firm, system administration and help desk support at JITC), Five Stones Research Corporation (women-owned small business, lab and EBS test support), F2 Systems LLC (women-owned small business, standards conformance testing), Nextgen Federal Systems LLC (HUBZone small business, test planning and execution), Equator Corporation (veteran-owned, operational evaluation and cybersecurity testing), BMA Technical Services Inc. (SDVOSB, enterprise IT support), T-Rex Solutions LLC (HUBZone joint venture, test and evaluation), and Veteran Enterprise Technology Services LLC (SDVOSB, labor base support). On larger primes, Agile Defense subcontracts to Booz Allen Hamilton (NetC technical and cyber security support), Peraton Inc. (Army Global Cyber Center IT support), Mantech Advanced Systems International (computer design services), and Dell Federal Systems (network infrastructure and licensing). This posture reflects both capacity constraints and deliberate strategy to leverage specialized small business and veteran-owned subcontractors across defense and civilian customer bases.

The company holds a named subsidiary, XOR Security LLC, a for-profit LLC. Corporate structure remains otherwise undesclosed in the source beyond parent status (Agile Defense is listed as a parent entity).

Agile Defense faces material recompete exposure concentrated in the DISA TEC II vehicle and multi-year Army contracts reaching completion in 2026–2027. The company's most recent large vehicle wins — Alliant 3 and OASIS+ Unrestricted — carry placeholder ceilings reflecting seat-on-contract status rather than guaranteed flow-down task-order work. Actual utilization of the $90.77 billion in GSA vehicle ceilings remains unproven; the $1.51 billion obligated across all awards is a 1% draw-down rate, signaling either early-stage GWAC participation or competitive displacement on individual task orders. The vendor's strategy to compete full-and-open rather than pursue set-asides positions it for civilian and cross-agency work but surrenders small-business pricing advantages on segments of the Army and DoD market where Total Small Business or HUBZone set-asides dominate procurement.