Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE205

Intuitive Research And Technology Corporation (IRTC), a small business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to provide continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. IRTC will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities to support research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile defense capabilities and other advanced aerial defense systems. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and allows individual task orders and delivery orders to be issued at varying classification levels, supporting both classified and unclassified programs leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract structure enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders under a single flexible contracting mechanism over the ten-year period of performance. Individual orders will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes and may require facility clearances appropriate to the classification level of specific work. IRTC's selection as a multiple award awardee reflects its established expertise in systems engineering, research and development, test and evaluation, and technical services across the defense sector, complemented by its existing positions on multiple indefinite delivery vehicles with the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. The contract represents a significant long-term investment in integrated homeland defense capabilities and positions the SHIELD IDIQ as a comprehensive contracting solution supporting the nation's multi-layered defense requirements against evolving global threats.