What IERUS Technologies does

IERUS Technologies is a privately held Huntsville, Alabama-based defense contractor founded in 2008 that delivers hardware, software, and engineering services to the U.S. Department of Defense and major defense primes. The company is organized around three core technical pillars: Electromagnetic Phenomenology (computational electromagnetics, antenna design, RF and optical systems), Analytical Computing (machine learning and software acceleration), and Weapon System Engineering (strategic weapons, battle management, and system-of-systems design). Its products span proprietary computational electromagnetics software (V-Lox), software-defined radar platforms (OSCAR), AI/ML-driven battle management applications (ICARS for the Aegis Weapons System), modular AESA antenna technology, custom antennas (including STOLA and wideband polyrod families), nondestructive evaluation tools (CENA Probe), star trackers (EAST), and UAS imaging payloads. Nullspace, Inc. was spun out in 2013 to commercialize EM modeling code developed at IERUS.

IERUS makes money primarily through U.S. DoD prime contracts and subcontractor relationships with major primes. Disclosed major awards include the Missile Defense Agency's $474 million RSTAC contract (awarded October 2025), the Air Force's TETRAS contract with a $998 million ceiling over 10 years (September 2017), the Navy's SeaPort-e prime contract across multiple zones (January 2014), and ongoing SBIR/STTR awards from MDA and the Navy. The company also derives revenue from low-volume custom hardware sales (CENA Probes, custom antennas, imaging payloads) and one-time software licenses (V-Lox, Nullspace), with a smaller commercial channel serving motorsports and SATCOM customers. IERUS pursues both prime and subcontractor positions and has Mentor-Protégé relationships with Lockheed Martin (since 2012) and Raytheon Missiles & Defense (since January 2025). Its go-to-market combines competitive contract pursuit with industry-event presence at venues such as the Space and Missile Defense Symposium and NDIA tutorials.

IERUS is qualified as a HUBZone small business and holds AS9100D aerospace quality management certification and a CMMI-DEV Level 3 appraisal (December 2020). It has been recognized as a Best Places to Work employer by the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce for over a decade and won the DoD Nunn-Perry Award in 2015 for its Lockheed Martin Mentor-Protégé performance.

Name

IERUS Technologies

Legal name

IERUS Technologies, Inc.

Website

https://ierustech.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

IERUS Technologies is a privately held Huntsville, Alabama defense contractor delivering proprietary electromagnetic simulation software, AI-driven battle management, software-defined radar, and custom antennas to the U.S. DoD and major defense primes such as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Defense Engineering Services

NAICS

Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing (336414), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles & Parts (3760)

akta.pro primary industry

Electronic Warfare (EW) & SIGINT/ELINT Systems (IMABAGAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Military ISR, EW & SIGINT Payloads (Airborne) (IMABAMAF), Electronic Warfare (EW) & Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Systems (IMABAOAB)

Keywords

• Defense engineering services
• Computational electromagnetics software
• Missile defense technology
• Radar system engineering
• Battle management systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Huntsville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government Defense Contracts: IERUS generates revenue primarily through DoD contracts as both prime contractor and subcontractor. Major contracts include RSTAC ($474M), TETRAS ($998M ceiling), SeaPort-e, and work on missile defense programs.
2. Hardware Products: Sale of custom hardware including CENA Probes, custom antennas, OSCAR radar platforms, and imaging payloads. Low-volume custom hardware provider specializing in novel electromagnetic technology.
3. Software Licenses and Tools: Revenue from proprietary software including V-Lox computational electromagnetics tools and Nullspace EM software. Software tools enable rapid simulation and design.
4. SBIR/STTR Awards: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) awards from government agencies including Missile Defense Agency and Navy for technology development.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

IERUS Technologies is a defense contractor that designs, develops, and delivers integrated hardware products, software tools, and engineering services for the U.S. Department of Defense and defense prime contractors. Core offerings span electromagnetic phenomenology modeling and simulation, AI/ML-driven battle management (ICARS), software-defined radar systems (OSCAR), custom antenna and AESA designs, computational electromagnetics software (V-Lox, Nullspace), and strategic weapons engineering support for missile defense and hypersonic programs.

Product overview

IERUS Technologies offers a portfolio of hardware and software products for defense applications, primarily serving the U.S. Department of Defense and the warfighter. The product portfolio includes: (1) Hardware products such as the OSCAR software-defined radar platform, CENA Probe nondestructive evaluation tool, and custom antenna designs including STOLA and various RF antennas; (2) Software products including ICARS battle management application, Nullspace EM computational electromagnetics tool (spun out as independent company), the V-Lox CEM software package, Modular Scalable AESA radar system, and Imaging Payload for UAS. These products are unified by IERUS's core competencies in Electromagnetics Phenomenology, Analytical Computing, and Weapon System Engineering, providing integrated solutions across the electromagnetic spectrum for land, air, sea, and space applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Nullspace: Nullspace EM Tool - A computational electromagnetics software tool developed by Nullspace, Inc., a spin-out of IERUS Technologies. The technology was developed at IERUS over 13 years.
• V-Lox
• ICARS
• OSCAR
• EAST

Products and services

• ICARS (Integrated Combat System Automated Resource Sharing) AI/ML-driven battle management software application designed to improve the observe-orient-decide-act (OODA) loop through evolvable, explainable man-machine partnering. Provides threat environment modeling, advanced mission planning, in-stride dynamic adjustments for multi-unit placement, engagement planning, sensor and weapons doctrine, and interoperator simulation for the Aegis Weapons System.
• OSCAR Platform (Open System Configurable Architecture Radar) Software-defined radar platform operating 2-18 GHz with dual polarization and 2x2 Rx/Tx configurable setup. Supports radar cross-section characterization, counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS), and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications. Includes machine learning classification and discrimination for target detection, particle filter tracking, and clutter detection algorithms.
• Modular, Scalable AESA Scalable Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) architecture supporting communication, radar, and sensing missions. Features low SWaP-C design using SiGe, RF SOIC, and RF GaN wafer fabrication technologies, with implementations from X through V Bands, multi-beam operations, and large angular coverage.
• Custom Antennas Novel conformal, low-profile, wideband, and multiband antenna designs supporting harsh environments, retrofit, and blank-page implementation challenges. Product lines include STOLA (SATCOM Tactical OTM Lens Antenna), Wideband Polyrod Antennas (7-18 GHz and 18-40 GHz), Low-Profile UHF Antenna, and HF Mast Antenna. Customers include motorsports (IndyCar, Formula 1, NASCAR), SATCOM providers, and defense applications.
• CENA Probe (Compact Electromagnetic Nondestructive Assessment Probe) Handheld high-sensitivity RF probe for nondestructive evaluation of resistive surfaces in the 0-10 Ohm/SQ range. Used for product line inspection, maintenance inspection, sheet resistance characterization, and materials evaluation. Available in wideband and X-band configurations.
• Imaging Payload Wide-angle, high-resolution imaging payload for the visible spectrum designed for UAS applications. Features 5MP camera resolution, 102 degree x 95 degree field of view, USB 2.0 interface, 7" x 10" form factor, and under 1lb weight. Supports UAS imaging, topography imaging, wide-angle surveillance, and multi-image super resolution.
• V-Lox Computational Electromagnetics Software High-performance 3D computational electromagnetics (CEM) software incorporating advanced hardware and algorithmic acceleration techniques. Uses Method of Moments formulation for accurate solutions to antenna, scattering, and microwave circuit problems. Supports geometries with arbitrary metallic and dielectric/magnetic materials, multi-core and multi-GPU acceleration with 15-25X speedups over competing products, and solutions exceeding 1 million unknowns.
• Nullspace EM Tool Advanced computational electromagnetics modeling software for aerospace, defense, communications, and quantum computing industries. Features high-order geometry and basis functions, fast direct solver for electrically large bodies, GPU-accelerated solutions, and Python scripting interface. Spun out as independent company Nullspace, Inc.

Quantifiable outcome

• Decrease legacy software and simulation run times by 10-100x while retaining or exceeding precision
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability9 records

Feature9 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Parsons Corporation: Large defense engineering services and mission solutions prime that competes for similar DoD missile-defense, radar and EW engineering task orders that IERUS serves.
• Leidos: Major defense IT and engineering services incumbent with significant missile-defense, sensors and command-and-control work that overlaps with IERUS's contracts and capabilities.
• SAIC: Large systems integrator providing engineering, integration and digital solutions across MDA, Navy and Army programs; competes for system-of-systems engineering dollars similar to IERUS.
• L3Harris Technologies: Large defense prime with deep portfolio in EW, SIGINT, AESA radar and space sensors; competes for the same electromagnetic-spectrum dollars as IERUS across DoD programs.
• Northrop Grumman: Top-tier defense prime with major missile defense, radar, EW and space systems businesses that overlap strongly with IERUS's served programs and EM expertise.
• CACI International: Mid-sized defense IT and engineering services provider competing for intelligence, EW and command-and-control task orders across the Army, Navy and MDA customer set.

Direct peers

• Kratos Defense & Security Solutions: Similar small-to-mid defense tech company focused on software-defined RF, radar, electronic warfare and unmanned systems, with overlapping software acceleration and modular phased-array capabilities for DoD customers.
• Mercury Systems: Defense electronics specialist building RF, microwave, digital and sensor-processing subsystems for radar, EW and missile-defense applications - directly comparable to IERUS's AESA, radar and battle-management work.

Emerging players

• Anduril Industries: Software-defined defense company building AI-enabled battle management, sensor fusion and autonomous systems; overlaps with IERUS's ICARS, ML sensor fusion and counter-UAS thrust.
• Palantir Technologies: Provides AI-driven decision-support and battle-management software to DoD, including on Aegis and joint force programs; competes for the same ML-enabled command-and-control dollars as ICARS.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments1 record

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