Erias Ventures, LLC

Erias Ventures, LLC, a Maryland-based for-profit limited liability company, operates as a prime contractor on the Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency's $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ vehicle (awarded December 29, 2025) and as a subcontractor to larger primes in defense systems engineering, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure roles across the Intelligence Community and federal defense agencies. The company competes under full-and-open procurement (no set-asides) on both its prime IDIQ position and its subcontract work.

Erias Ventures holds a seat on the SHIELD IDIQ, a full-and-open competition vehicle structured to support multi-domain defense systems including detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and cybersecurity modernization leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Work is performed in Huntsville, Alabama, with potential classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. Erias has also placed work under the ASTRO, NOVASTAR, and Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 3 vehicles.

Across its recent award footprint, Erias operates primarily as a subcontractor (75% of awards) to primes including Accenture Federal Services, Altamira Technologies, HII Mission Technologies, and Enlighten It Consulting. Named subcontract work includes vulnerability management cybersecurity support to Accenture on the CISA Insights Program (March 2024), electro-optical tool sustainment to Altamira (July 2023), software engineering support on JCRS-D/CASPIAN modernization to Enlighten It (January 2026), and system engineering, software engineering, data science, and DevOps expertise on the RobotKnight program for the Intelligence Community (July 2026). On its SHIELD IDIQ prime position, Erias received an initial delivery order on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of five hundred dollars and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035.

Customer concentration spans defense and intelligence agencies. The top five customer agencies by award count include the DOD Missile Defense Agency, the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Department of the Army, and two Air Force components (HQ District Washington and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center). Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $7.7 million, far exceeding the nominal $500 potential-value ceiling, reflecting the deep funding committed to ongoing subcontract labor and the nascent prime IDIQ position. Award activity shows growth from one award in 2023 to four in 2025 and two in 2026. On Service Contract Inventory–reportable federal services work, Erias shows roughly 11.0 FTEs delivered to the federal government in FY2025 across three subcontract records; SCI data captures sub-billable labor only and excludes prime contract work, classified activity, and goods procurement.

Erias Ventures, LLC is focused on providing engineering services to the federal government and prime contractors to achieve superior mission outcomes. Our services include software design and engineering, system engineering, system administration, DevOps, technical writing and data science and analysis across cyber security, intelligence correlation and discovery, and many other national security missions. With extensive mission knowledge across agency organizations, we are experienced in designing and building data products and data solutions for the intelligence community.