Telos Corporation Selected for Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ Contract
Telos (NASDAQ: TLS) was awarded a Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ contract with a total ceiling of $151 billion on December 19, 2025.
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Rhea-AI Summary
Telos (NASDAQ: TLS) was awarded a Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ contract with a total ceiling of $151 billion on December 19, 2025. The IDIQ covers a broad range of work areas to enable rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility. The award positions Telos to provide cyber, cloud and enterprise security solutions across multiple task orders under the SHIELD vehicle.
Positive
- Awarded MDA SHIELD IDIQ contract with $151 billion ceiling
- Contract covers a broad range of work areas enabling multiple task orders
- Supports delivery of cyber, cloud and enterprise security capabilities to warfighter
Negative
- None.
Details
News Market Reaction – TLS
On Dec 19, the day this news came out, TLS closed 4.84% above the previous close. That session’s volume was 2.4x the stock’s average daily volume.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus for the Dec 19 session.
Key Figures
- Contract ceiling
- $151 billion
- Ceiling for Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ award
- Q3 2025 revenue
- $51.4 million
- Q3 2025, up 116% year over year
- Security Solutions growth
- 154%
- Year-over-year revenue growth in Security Solutions, Q3 2025
- Gross margin
- 39.9%
- Q3 2025 vs 13.2% prior-year period
- Operating loss
- $2.5 million
- Q3 2025, narrowed from $28.9 million
- Net loss
- $2.1 million
- Q3 2025, improved from $28.1 million
- Quarter-end cash
- $59.1 million
- Q3 2025, with no borrowings on $30 million revolver
- Funded backlog
- $65.5 million
- Q3 2025 funded backlog, 97% expected within 12 months
Historical Context
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Stronger Q3 2025 financials and webcast details drove a sharp positive move.
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Participation in multiple upcoming tech conferences had limited immediate price impact.
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Surpassing 500 TSA PreCheck locations signaled growth in Telos ID programs.
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Scheduling of Q3 2025 results and webcast produced a small negative move.
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TSA PreCheck network expansion across multiple states was followed by a price drop.
24h Move is the share-price change in the day after each event; other market factors may also have contributed.
Key Terms
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) regulatory
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ASHBURN, Va., Dec. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Telos Corporation (NASDAQ: TLS), a leading provider of cyber, cloud and enterprise security solutions for the world’s most security-conscious organizations, today announced it was awarded a contract for the Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling of
About Telos Corporation
Telos Corporation (NASDAQ: TLS) empowers and protects the world’s most security-conscious organizations with efficient, adaptable, and secure solutions that safeguard people, systems, and information. We deliver advanced capabilities across cyber governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) with Xacta®; identity and biometric solutions; secure networks and communications; and TSA PreCheck® enrollment services. Serving the U.S. federal government, regulated industries, and global enterprises, Telos helps customers stay ahead of evolving threats, accelerate compliance, and achieve mission success. Driven by purpose and guided by our core values, we build trusted partnerships, deliver superior solutions, and help create a more secure, interconnected world. Learn more at www.telos.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements which are made under the safe harbor provisions of the federal securities laws. These statements are based on the Company’s management’s current beliefs, expectations and assumptions about future events, conditions and results and on information currently available to them. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. The Company believes that these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those described under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” set forth from time to time in the Company’s filings and reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as well as subsequent and future filings and reports by the Company, copies of which are available at https://investors.telos.com and on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Although the Company bases these forward-looking statements on assumptions that its management believes are reasonable when made, the Company cautions the reader that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and that the Company’s actual results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, and industry developments, may differ materially from statements made in or suggested by the forward-looking statements contained in this release. Given these risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond its control, the Company cautions the reader not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of such statement and, except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement publicly, or to revise any forward-looking statement to reflect events or developments occurring after the date of the statement, even if new information becomes available in the future. Comparisons of results for current and any prior periods are not intended to express any future trends or indications of future performance, unless specifically expressed as such, and should only be viewed as historical data.
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Investors: InvestorRelations@telos.com
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