Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE057

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Critical Mission Services GP (UEI: WC57HDAKQ295), an SBA Certified 8A Joint Venture, on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, procures an advanced multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile defense. The prime contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures across multiple National Association of Industrial Classification codes and security domains.

The contract encompasses comprehensive research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts to support national defense objectives and continuous layered protection for the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations. The initial task order, the SHIELD Initial Order, was awarded on December 29, 2025, at a firm fixed price of five hundred dollars with performance location in Huntsville, Alabama, and matching completion date of December 28, 2035. The pre-solicitation was released May 21, 2025, with the final Request for Proposal anticipated in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, utilizing full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under the IDIQ vehicle structure.