Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE154

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract represents a comprehensive defense procurement vehicle awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with an anticipated ceiling value of $151 billion over a ten-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition contract with no set-asides was awarded to Ion Corp, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged, veteran-owned business headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, alongside multiple other qualifying contractors under the indefinite delivery structure. The initial task order issued under this contract is valued at $500 for the SHIELD initial order, with performance taking place in Huntsville, Alabama, and priced on a firm fixed price basis.

The contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. Contracted work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts addressing ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats throughout all phases of flight. The vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and anticipates leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with work performed at facilities meeting appropriate security clearance requirements to support this long-term national defense investment in multi-layered homeland protection capabilities.