Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE106

Systems Engineering Group, Inc., a defense-focused engineering services firm headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, valued at $151 billion with a period of performance through December 28, 2035. The contract employs full and open competition with no small business set-aside and authorizes the issuance of firm fixed price and other contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes. The initial task order, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Initial Order, was awarded on the same date with a ceiling value of $500 and performance location in Huntsville, Alabama. This IDIQ structure is designed to serve as a comprehensive contracting vehicle enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders for multi-domain defense capabilities across classified and unclassified security domains.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, integrated 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 threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract encompasses extensive work areas including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization initiatives. The procurement leverages emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to deliver continuous, layered protection against evolving threat environments. By establishing this flexible, multi-award contracting mechanism with qualified responsible offerors demonstrating technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing, the Missile Defense Agency created an enterprise-wide acquisition vehicle positioned to support the nation's long-term homeland and force protection defense requirements.