Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE023

Softek International Inc., doing business as Esha International, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, represents a comprehensive 10-year contracting vehicle utilizing full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The MDA intends to leverage this IDIQ to rapidly issue multiple task and delivery orders to all qualifying responsible contractors who submit technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing. Softek International, a certified Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business and 8(a) Program Participant headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey, joins other qualified contractors under this multiple-award structure to support the government's multi-domain defense capabilities.

The SHIELD IDIQ procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to 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 against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and NAICS codes, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types and may require appropriate facility clearances depending on classification levels, positioning this IDIQ as a flexible, long-term contracting mechanism for MDA and other Department of Defense entities to address comprehensive layered defense requirements.