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QuSecure awarded Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ contract

Source Decision Insights Record Published February 25, 2026 Companies 2
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2 companies named across 3 categories, one of 2 articles referencing QuSecure. Previous coverage: QuSecure partners with Darren Sproles on awareness campaign (Jan 2026).

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QuSecure was awarded the Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a $151 billion ceiling, a contract that encompassed a broad range of work areas intended to allow the rapid delivery of capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility.

The award validated QuSecure’s technical capabilities, past performance, and readiness to support large-scale deployment initiatives.

QuSecure described solutions that delivered a cryptographic security layer across integrated and distributed defense networks, combining centralized cryptographic management such as automated cryptography discovery and cryptographic inventory management with Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) built on NIST PQC algorithms, and crypto-agile, zero trust cryptography to protect network infrastructure, nodes, and applications from adversary Computer Network Operations (CNO).

The company presented QuProtect R3 as a PQC platform that safeguards data and communications against classical and quantum computer-based threats, provides enterprise-grade network encryption integrated into existing IT infrastructures and tactical networks, enables centralized cryptographic management and dynamic policy-driven encryption, and supplies a Common Operating Picture (COP) for cryptography across distributed network nodes.

“QuSecure is experiencing continued government traction and deeper penetration into operational defense environments, building on QuSecure’s long-standing successful delivery of cryptographic capabilities within tactical networks supporting Army and Air Force use cases,” said Austin Bosarge, Head of Federal at QuSecure. “QuSecure is positioned to extend these capabilities into larger, integrated architectures, supporting broader deployments and operational scale.”

QuSecure described plans to extend capabilities into larger, integrated architectures and to support broader deployments and operational scale.

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