Ierus Technologies Inc.

Ierus Technologies Inc., a small business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, operates as a prime contractor and subcontractor delivering advanced electro-optics/infrared, electromagnetic, and sensor technologies to the Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency, and civilian research agencies across research and development, test and evaluation, and systems engineering domains. Ierus competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on definitive contracts and SBIR/STTR awards; 61% of its recent awards sit as prime contracts and 39% as subcontractor work.

Ierus's customer base is heavily concentrated in the Missile Defense Agency (78 awards, $517 million combined potential value) and Navy platforms (Naval Air Warfare Center, Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Strategic Systems Programs), with meaningful exposure to the Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Materiel Command. The top five customer agencies by combined potential value account for 98% of the source data: the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base dominates by dollars (8 awards, $46 billion potential value under the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract), followed by Naval Sea Systems Command (12 awards, $4.99 billion under Seaport-NXG), the Air Force Materiel Command (6 awards, $2 billion), the Air Force (3 awards, $950 million), and the Missile Defense Agency (78 awards, $517 million). Ierus holds multi-billion-dollar IDIQ positions across these agencies: a $151 billion ceiling under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program with MDA (awarded December 2025), a $46 billion Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract ceiling (awarded March 2025), a $4.99 billion Seaport-NXG IDIQ with Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded January 2025), and a $950 million Joint All Domain Command and Control Support vehicle with the Air Force (awarded June 2022). Ierus also holds a $999,999,999,999.00 ceiling on the OASIS+ Small Business multiple-award IDIQ under GSA (awarded April 2025) and a $4.999 million blanket purchase agreement with Naval Air Warfare Center (awarded December 2024).

Representative prime work includes a $474.955 billion definitive contract for Radar System Test and Analysis Contract (RSTAC) support with the Missile Defense Agency (awarded October 2025, running through October 2034) to fund ground and flight tests for AN/TPY-2, SBX, UEWR, and CD radars; a $1.949 million SBIR Phase II award from MDA for HF sensing using travelling-ionospheric disturbance evaluation tri-waveform (TRIDENT) research (awarded March 2025, with Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC subcontracted); a $1.799 million SBIR Phase II award from Air Force Research Laboratory for proliferated all-domain low-cost lightweight active electronically scanned array (AESA) seeker development (awarded October 2024); and a $1.487 million DARPA SBIR Phase II award for enhanced modeling and simulations of hypersonics (awarded March 2023, with Axient LLC and Kratos Defense & Rocket Support Services as subcontractors). Across the source data, Ierus holds at least 114 awards under R&D NAICS 541715 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences) and delivers work across SBIR Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III cycles, as well as STTR Phase I and Phase II arrangements. On the grant side, Ierus received four Department of Energy Office of Science project grants under CFDA 81.049 (totaling approximately $906 thousand across FY2022–FY2025) for computational electromagnetics and quantum design software, multiphysics motor design simulation, spline-based electromagnetic simulation on high-performance computing, and accelerated electromagnetic optimization and uncertainty quantification.

Activity growth has accelerated: 12 awards in 2022, 22 in 2023, 62 in 2024, 34 in 2025, and 3 recorded through March 2026. Five awards with ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $10.6 million and face recompete. The combined potential value across all 211 awards (prime and sub) totals $55.49 billion, though only $137.8 million (0.2% of the potential ceiling) has been obligated to date, reflecting the preponderance of IDIQ ceilings and base ordering periods not yet funded through individual task orders.

Ierus operates heavily as a subcontractor to major defense primes. The source documents at least 82 subcontract awards, with The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Raytheon Company as the dominant prime partners. Under Boeing, Ierus delivers systems engineering and integration services on Space Launch System (SLS) Stages Production and Evolution Contract (SPEC), upper-stage manufacturing and assembly for the Ares I launch vehicle, and core services under cost-plus-award-fee contracts. Under Lockheed Martin, Ierus provides software development, systems engineering, flight test support, and avionics obsolescence engineering across next-generation intercept (NGI) and advanced upper-range (AUR) development programs. Under Raytheon, Ierus performs engineering and microelectronics capability support on the Coyote counter-unmanned-aircraft system and modeling and simulation development on the Small Diameter Bomb Increment II. Recent sub-awards span Science Applications International Corporation (transformational technology analysis and model-based systems engineering for Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic), Kratos Defense & Rocket Support Services (research and development on high-speed systems test aero-optical capability, seeker window material testing), and Radiance Technologies (directed energy system integration lab software upgrades). This deep sub-footprint with large defense contractors positions Ierus as a feeder for advanced technology development on major DoD platforms.

Service Contract Inventory data for FY2022–FY2023 captures only $835 thousand in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across two prime records, with roughly 1.1 FTEs in FY2022 and 0.8 FTEs in FY2023 — a narrow slice of the vendor's federal engagement, excluding goods, classified work, and the bulk of its SBIR/STTR and IDIQ award volumes. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI records ran tight around $206/hr across the distribution, reflecting labor-intensive R&D and engineering services. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, zero subcontractor hours were reported, but the source data shows Ierus routinely names university research partners (Brigham Young University, University of Kansas Center for Research, Baylor University, University of Alabama) and smaller technical firms on SBIR/STTR awards, suggesting academic collaboration rather than commercial sub-sourcing on the research side.

IERUS performs: RF and IR modeling and simulation; antenna design; systems engineering; metamaterial design and analysis; etc.