Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE085

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Cisco Systems Inc. on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support national defense objectives through advanced detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization capabilities against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The contract encompasses a broad range of work activities including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple security classifications and facility clearance levels. As a multiple award IDIQ with no set-aside designations, the contract structure allows the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to rapidly issue task and delivery orders under a flexible contracting mechanism.

The initial delivery order issued under the SHIELD IDIQ, valued at $500 (Firm Fixed Price), was awarded to Cisco Systems Inc. on December 29, 2025, with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama 35898. This inaugural task order for the SHIELD Initial Order represents the commencement of order activity under the broader IDIQ vehicle, which contemplates individual delivery and task orders utilizing various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes. Cisco's extensive federal contracting experience, demonstrated through numerous prime contract awards and indefinite-delivery vehicles spanning defense and civilian agencies, positions the company to execute this long-term investment in homeland defense capabilities. The 10-year performance period reflects the government's sustained commitment to developing and maintaining a comprehensive, layered defense architecture capable of addressing evolving multi-domain threats throughout an extended operational timeframe.