Castellum Announces the Award of Multiple Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ Contracts (Form 8-K)

Castellum Announces the Award of Multiple Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ Contracts

VIENNA, Va., Dec. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Castellum, Inc. (NYSE-American: CTM) ("Castellum" or "CTM"), a cybersecurity, electronic warfare, and software engineering services company focused on the federal government, announces that its Specialty Systems, Inc. ("SSI") subsidiary, CTM Joint Venture ("JV"), C-K2 mentor protégé JV, and Epic Specialty Systems mentor protégé JV have all been awarded contracts to the Missile Defense Agency ("MDA") SHIELD Multiple Award IDIQ contract vehicle. The MDA requires an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, its deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. This contract will support national defense objectives by ensuring continuous, layered protection against air, missiles, space, cyber, and hybrid threats originating from any vector: land, sea, air, space, or cyberspace. This effort supports services and supplies of both classified and unclassified programs on multiple security domains.

The contract will also provide rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled applications where pertinent, and maximizing use of digital engineering, open systems architectures, model-based systems engineering, and agile processes in the acquisition, development, fielding, and sustainment of these capabilities.

"This award underscores Castellum's commitment to delivering cutting-edge, AI-enabled, multi-domain solutions to our nation's most critical defense challenges. Building on the strengths of our subsidiaries, JV partnerships, and ongoing support to Electronic Warfare programs, we are prepared to accelerate innovation and provide resilient capabilities that enhance readiness and strengthen America's defensive posture," said Drew Merriman, Chief Operating Officer of Castellum.

"These are strategic, important wins for us. Our collective successes across our company and JV Mentor-Protégé partners are the direct result of our outstanding business growth team's superb execution of our organic growth strategy. We are now in an optimal position to offer the best technology solutions, products, and technical services, and to directly support the Department of War through MDA to help solve their most complex challenges and protect our nation and our citizens against the rapidly growing threat of 'state-of-the-art' missile threats. We are honored to support MDA in rapidly fielding advanced, open-architecture capabilities that provide integrated layered protection for our nation and allies," said Glen Ives, President and Chief Executive Officer of Castellum.

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Castellum, Inc. (NYSE-American: CTM) is a cyber, electronic and information warfare ("EW/IW"), software development, engineering, and C5ISR services company focused on the federal government - https://castellumus.com/.