Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE051

Innovative Management Concepts, Inc. (IMC), a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Blairsville, Georgia, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program on December 29, 2025. This contract, funded by the Missile Defense Agency, carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract vehicle is structured to support national defense objectives through the development, procurement, and deployment of 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 throughout all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks.

Under this SHIELD IDIQ contract, IMC will deliver comprehensive materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity services, and modernization efforts. The solicitation, issued without set-aside designations and utilizing full and open competition, was structured under FAR 15.304(c)(1)(ii) to award to all qualifying, responsible offerors submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing. Individual task and delivery orders issued under this contract vehicle will span multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and security classification levels, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This represents a significant long-term federal investment positioning IMC to compete for and execute mission-critical defense and national security orders across the Department of Defense enterprise over the ten-year performance period.