Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE171

Edwards Industries, LLC, a women-owned small business certified by the Small Business Administration, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion over a 10-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, with no set-aside designation, allowing full and open competition among all qualifying contractors. The prime contractor will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to perform work in accordance with task orders issued under the IDIQ vehicle.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures advanced, multi-domain defense capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats targeting the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations. Work scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple technology domains including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued at varying classification levels with requirements spanning multiple NAICS codes, requiring appropriate facility clearances and supporting both classified and unclassified programs. This contracting vehicle provides the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities with a flexible mechanism to rapidly procure multi-layered defense capabilities supporting the nation's strategic defense objectives.