Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE160

Navigator Development Group, Inc., a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Enterprise, Alabama, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) master contract vehicle. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a performance period extending through December 28, 2035, and utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts in support of advanced, multi-domain defense systems. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and contract types, with work spanning classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and requiring appropriate facility clearances for certain orders.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract is structured to procure capabilities for detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as advanced aerial attacks. The contracting vehicle leverages emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats. This represents a long-term strategic investment in integrated air and missile defense capabilities, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a flexible contracting mechanism while maintaining the option to make awards to all qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing.