Clear Ridge Defense, LLC

Clear Ridge Defense, LLC, a small business defense consulting firm based in Columbia, Maryland, delivers cybersecurity operations, cyberspace warfare support, and professional services to the Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies, competing predominantly as a subcontractor (63% of recent awards) while holding prime positions on large defense IDIQs and federal supply schedules. The vendor does not hold SBA set-aside designations; recent prime awards operate under full-and-open competition, with one exception — a small-business set-aside delivery order under the OASIS+ Total Small Business IDIQ.

Clear Ridge Defense has secured two major IDIQ vehicles in the past eighteen months that anchor its pipeline. On December 29, 2025, the Missile Defense Agency awarded Clear Ridge a multi-billion-dollar SHIELD IDIQ with a $151 billion ceiling running through December 2035, structured for full-and-open competition across research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and cybersecurity spanning classified and unclassified work. Concurrently, the General Services Administration awarded Clear Ridge a position on the OASIS+ Total Small Business multiple-award IDIQ (ceiling not specified in source; placeholder value in SAM) running through December 2029, spanning management, technical and engineering, research and development, intelligence services, environmental services, facilities, and logistics. Both vehicles position Clear Ridge to capture task orders across multiple defense and civilian agencies. On the Navy side, the Department of the Navy placed a $113.8 million delivery order in June 2024 under Seaport Next Generation for comprehensive cyber support services to U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command and Joint Forces Headquarters Cyber Commands, performance through June 2029 at Fort Meade, Maryland, on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. Clear Ridge also holds a GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (ceiling $500 thousand, performance through August 2027) covering 20 cybersecurity and IT professional services labor categories priced from $109.81/hr to $210.04/hr, all requiring a bachelor's degree and none requiring security clearances.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to defense cyber operations. The top three customers by potential value account for 100% of combined dollars: the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (4 awards, $3.96 billion potential value), the Department of the Navy (1 award, $113.8 million), and the Department of Defense Cyber Command (11 awards, $25 million). Cyber Command dominates by award count — eleven awards across a $25 million footprint — suggesting a feeder relationship to the command across smaller task orders. The Marine Corps appears separately with five awards. Five task orders sit on SeaPort-e (a legacy Navy IDIQ), three on Seaport Next Generation, and one each on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and OASIS+.

Clear Ridge operates primarily as a subcontractor to defense primes. The vendor subcontracts to Science Applications International Corporation on multiple USCYBERCOM Joint Operations Center and cyberspace operations engagements (nine awards dating from March 2023 through February 2024), to Booz Allen Hamilton on cybersecurity and cyberspace operations professional services (three awards from January 2024 through June 2025), to Resource Management Concepts on defensive cyberspace operations (one award, September 2024), and to Cherokee Nation Operational Solutions on Navy cybersecurity support (one award, May 2022). Sub work focuses on cyberspace operations planning, defensive and offensive cyber operations, DODIN operations, 24/7 watchfloor desk support, and exercise support. The SCI dataset captures 11 service-contract records (2 prime, 9 sub) across FY2022–FY2024, showing roughly 7 FTEs delivered in FY2024 but zero invoiced revenue on prime SCI-reportable contracts, indicating that current SCI capture is weighted toward sub-hours, not prime prime billing. Activity grew from two awards in 2022 to nine in 2023 and stabilized at eight in 2024, with three awards in 2025 dominated by the two large IDIQ vehicles awarded concurrently in December; combined potential value across all recent awards stands at $4.1 billion, though only $67.3 million (2% of potential) has been obligated to date, reflecting the IDIQs' role as pipeline vehicles rather than committed spend.