Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE095

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to ZEL Technologies LLC, a veteran-owned, minority-owned small business, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a performance period extending through December 28, 2035, and was awarded on December 29, 2025, without set-aside restrictions. As a multiple-award vehicle utilizing full and open competition, the contract allows the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to issue multiple task and delivery orders to all qualifying contractors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing.

The contracted scope encompasses comprehensive research and development, systems engineering, prototyping, and production activities supporting multi-domain defense capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allies. Work areas include disruptive technologies development, weapon design, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and may operate at different security classification levels, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, establishing a flexible contracting mechanism for the nation's layered homeland defense requirements.