Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE013

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to BK Manufacturing Co Inc., doing business as BK Aerospace, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This $151 billion contract, awarded on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151,000,000,000 and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, represents a comprehensive 10-year procurement vehicle designed to support multi-domain defense capabilities. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, and BK Aerospace was one of multiple awardees selected as a responsible source with technically acceptable proposals demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing. As a minority-owned, woman-owned small business headquartered in Arab, Alabama, BK Aerospace brings established expertise in precision manufacturing, component design, engineering, and testing services for the aerospace and defense industries, leveraging its specialized capabilities in precision machining, welding, brazing, and assembly operations.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts, with potential leveraging of artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types and may operate across multiple classification levels and security domains, requiring appropriate facility clearances. The initial task order issued on December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of $500 and specifies a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama 35898, with performance extending through December 28, 2035, structured as a firm fixed price delivery order supporting the broader SHIELD enterprise contracting solution.