Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE199

Advanced Technology Systems Company, Inc. (OF Virginia) was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a new enterprise-wide contracting vehicle managed by the Missile Defense Agency. This $151 billion contract, with a ceiling value representing a 10-year period of performance through December 28, 2035, utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract was awarded without set-aside restrictions, allowing ATSC to compete alongside other qualified contractors for multiple task and delivery orders. The solicitation was posted as a pre-solicitation notice on May 21, 2025, with a draft released in late July 2025 and final RFP anticipated in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, with contract award executed ahead of schedule on December 29, 2025.

The SHIELD IDIQ 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 vectors. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts targeting ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks across all flight phases. The contract vehicle supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and leverages 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 NAICS codes at different classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances. All potential offerors, including ATSC, must be registered in the System for Award Management to execute orders, with the government intending to award task orders to all qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources submitting technically acceptable proposals demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing.