Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE034

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc. (ISSI), a small business engineering research and development firm headquartered in Centerville, Ohio, as part of the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. Awarded on December 29, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, this $151 billion contract ceiling represents a 10-year national defense investment. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, enabling the government to rapidly issue task and delivery orders across multiple contract types and North American Industry Classification System codes. The SHIELD IDIQ is structured to support both classified and unclassified defense initiatives, incorporating advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. ISSI will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to execute individual task orders issued under this parent contract vehicle.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures comprehensive multi-domain defense capabilities spanning research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract will enable the development and delivery of an advanced 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. Task and delivery orders will address threats from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks, across all phases of flight. Performance will be executed at ISSI's facilities in Ohio, with the contractor serving as a qualified source capable of executing classified work across multiple security domains. Individual orders may carry varying classification levels and will require appropriate facility clearances, positioning ISSI to support MDA and other Department of Defense entities through this flexible, enterprise-wide contracting mechanism over the decade-long performance period.