Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE042

New Directions Technologies, Inc. (NDTI), a minority-owned, veteran-owned small business based in Ridgecrest, California, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) master contract vehicle. The SHIELD IDIQ carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, and employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations. This contract structure enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue task and delivery orders across multiple functional domains, including research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. Individual task orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and may be issued at different security classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.

The SHIELD IDIQ procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Under the contract, NDTI shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance of individual task orders, with the contract designed to support both classified and unclassified programs leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This 10-year contracting vehicle represents a comprehensive, long-term investment in layered homeland defense capabilities, enabling rapid issuance of orders under a flexible contract mechanism while maintaining government acquisition efficiency in addressing evolving multi-domain threat environments.