Jacobs Awarded Role on US Missile Defense Agency SHIELD Contract – Jacobs Solutions (NYSE:J)
Jacobs has been selected for a role on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s SHIELD contract, advancing scalable, software-enabled systems that underpin critical national security missions. The engagement underscores Jacobs’ expanding footprint as a software-first engineering partner across land, air, maritime and space domains, and reflects the company’s focus on modern, adaptable architectures for mission-critical defense operations.
What the award supports
The SHIELD effort emphasizes flexible, software-driven capabilities that can evolve rapidly to meet emerging threats and operational requirements. Jacobs’ work spans the full project life cycle—concept development, digital engineering, integration, testing, deployment and sustainment—helping government and private sector customers accelerate delivery while maintaining security, resilience and performance at scale.
Core mission software capabilities
- Mission management and orchestration
- Advanced data processing and fusion
- Cybersecurity engineering and hardening
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Edge computing for low-latency operations
- Modeling, simulation and digital twins
- Space engineering expertise
Integration across multi-domain operations
Jacobs’ approach brings together software and systems engineering across diverse environments—from terrestrial networks to airborne platforms, maritime systems and space-based assets. By aligning open, modular software stacks with rigorous security and testing, the company aims to reduce integration friction, shorten delivery cycles and enable continuous capability upgrades without disrupting mission operations.
Why it matters
Modern defense missions rely on rapidly reconfigurable, software-defined systems that can ingest, analyze and act on data in real time. Contracts like SHIELD reflect a broader shift toward digital, interoperable architectures that scale from the edge to the enterprise. With expertise in AI/ML, cyber, modeling and simulation and space engineering, Jacobs is positioned to help accelerate decision advantage, enhance system resilience and support timely fielding of new capabilities in support of U.S. national security priorities.
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