KBR has been awarded a seat on the Missile Defense Agency’s Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, which carries a ceiling value of $151 billion. This award positions KBR to deliver systems engineering, integration and rapid prototyping capabilities across land, sea, air, space and cyberspace domains. Under the SHIELD IDIQ, KBR will support next-generation missile defense requirements by leveraging its digital engineering, open systems architectures, virtual prototyping and AI-enabled solutions. Mark Kavanaugh, President of Defense, Intelligence and Space, highlighted KBR’s role in supporting the Golden Dome for America initiative and other Department of War organizations, underscoring the firm’s ability to accelerate deployment, reduce costs and scale mission-ready solutions. With 37,000 employees serving customers in more than 80 countries and operations in 29, this award is expected to reinforce KBR’s defense backlog and drive multi-year revenue visibility.

In a separate award, KBR secured an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with the U.S. Geological Survey for technical support services valued at up to $350 million. The work scope includes AI and machine learning applications for Earth observation, cloud modernization, cybersecurity enhancements and IT infrastructure upgrades. This contract leverages KBR’s commercial and non-commercial technology integration expertise, with the potential to expand across additional federal civilian agencies. Following the announcement, KBR shares jumped 6.7%, reflecting investor confidence in the company’s expanding federal services portfolio and its ability to capture higher-margin work in civilian space. Analysts note that the USGS award complements KBR’s defense revenues and underscores the firm’s diversified federal backlog, which now spans defense, intelligence, space and scientific services.