Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE130

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, represents a comprehensive multi-domain defense procurement vehicle with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition contract awards to all qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals at fair and reasonable pricing, with no set-aside designations applied. The contract requires contractors to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities to support advanced homeland defense capabilities, utilizing both classified and unclassified work streams across multiple security domains and facility clearance levels.

The SHIELD IDIQ procures an integrated, multi-layered defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts, with individual task and delivery orders structured across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and contract types. The vehicle leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to address threats from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles throughout all flight phases and other advanced aerial attacks. This ten-year contracting mechanism establishes a flexible procurement solution enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders supporting national defense objectives through a consolidated enterprise-wide vehicle.