Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE083

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Abacus Technology Corporation, a minority-owned small business, on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract has a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and is structured to support both classified and unclassified defense programs across multiple security domains. The contract requires the contractor to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance of the requirement. An initial delivery order for SHIELD was issued on the same award date with a ceiling value of $500 under a firm fixed-price arrangement, with performance occurring in Huntsville, Alabama.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract 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 missiles. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract vehicle is designed to leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support national defense objectives and continuous, layered protection for the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Individual task and delivery orders issued under the IDIQ will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes, with orders potentially classified at different levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.