Nteligen, LLC

Nteligen, LLC, based in Columbia, Maryland, operates as a subcontractor (71% of recent awards) and prime contractor on defense programs, providing advanced battle management system services, cybersecurity solutions, and software development to the Department of the Air Force and the Department of Defense. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations.

Nteligen's federal footprint centers on defense and intelligence applications. The vendor holds a prime position on two major Air Force and Missile Defense Agency contracts: a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Air Force for Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) services awarded in September 2022 with a $950 million potential value, and a multiple-award indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract with the Missile Defense Agency for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program awarded December 29, 2025, carrying a multi-billion-dollar ceiling through December 28, 2035. The SHIELD contract scope encompasses multi-domain defense systems integration, cybersecurity enhancements, digital engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, and open systems architecture development across classified and unclassified programs. Work is performed at multiple locations, including Huntsville, Alabama and Columbia, Maryland. On the Air Force ABMS contract, Nteligen delivered content delivery network solutions for data caching and routing at multiple classification levels across commercial cloud environments and fixed sites, supporting static files, software and firmware updates, mission data, and full motion video across unclassified through top secret/special access required information enclaves. The initial SHIELD delivery order, awarded simultaneously on December 29, 2025, represents the first task order issued under this expansive long-term vehicle.

Customer concentration aligns heavily with Air Force and defense programs. The Department of the Air Force accounts for the vast majority of combined potential value ($950 million across 2 awards), driven by the ABMS prime contract. By award count, the Defense Logistics Agency Headquarters leads with 7 awards, followed by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (6 awards, $930 thousand combined potential value), the Air Force Air Combat Command (4 awards), and the Missile Defense Agency (2 awards). Eight distinct customer agencies are represented across the portfolio.

Nteligen's vehicle holdings concentrate on Air Force and MDA indefinite-delivery contracts. The vendor places 9 task orders under Indefinite Delivery Contract FA875019D0001 and 6 task orders under One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services, with single orders against the ABMS parent vehicle and SHIELD IDIQ.

In its subcontractor capacity, Nteligen delivers engineering services and software licensing support primarily to Assured Information Security, Inc. (across the LARAS, GARTER, VIPER, and MAKALU programs), Analex Corporation (on the XTREEMS Next Generation program for Glasswall software support and maintenance), BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. (on systems engineering evaluation work), CACI Inc. Federal (on ISR innovation and integration), and Reliance Test & Technology LLC (on DFDL software development and testing support). This subcontractor footprint reflects a pattern of software solutions, engineering support, and cybersecurity sustainment delivery rather than primary contract awards.

Recent activity shows marked growth. The vendor recorded one award per year in 2018 and 2019, followed by two awards in 2022, then thirteen awards in 2024 and six in 2025. Combined potential value across all awards reaches $951 million, though only $9.2 million has been obligated to date, reflecting the early stage of major IDIQ awards and task order placements. Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal prime-contract reporting activity—all six SCI records reflect subcontractor status—with workforce scale growing from 0.8 FTEs in FY2022 to 3.1 FTEs in FY2025 across SCI-reportable work. The NAICS portfolio splits between Custom Computer Programming Services (10 awards) and Engineering Services (7 awards), with defense research and development dominating the PSC categorization.

Nteligen develops data centric cybersecurity systems for cross-domain information flow, risk management in business workflows, and secure data distribution. Nteligen's solutions are used to mitigate and eliminate zero-day attacks and to prevent data spillage in both high security Government communication and corporate enterprise environments. Nteligen specializes in the development of secure platform architectures that are designed to meet NIST 800-53, CNSS 1253, and NSA security guidelines, ensuring certification for use in classified networks. The company's software provides secure and robust filter & pipeline orchestration, data processing, recursive deep-content inspection and sanitization, and secure data-flow. Applicable site and mission security policy are enforced while operating in environments that demand identification, authentication, authorization, and full audit and reporting capabilities.