Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE214

E-Spectrum Technologies, Inc., a Hispanic American-owned small business headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program on December 29, 2025. The Missile Defense Agency is the funding federal agency, with a contract ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. No set-aside designation was applied to this procurement, which utilized full and open competition structured under Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii) to award all qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing. The contract was established following a pre-solicitation notice posted on May 21, 2025, with a draft solicitation released in July 2025 and the final Request for Proposal released in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract establishes a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts for an advanced layered defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. The contract scope encompasses ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile defense capabilities, incorporating advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide continuous protection to the U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and multiple classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances to support both classified and unclassified programs, thereby positioning the SHIELD vehicle as a flexible, enterprise-wide contracting mechanism for the Department of Defense's multi-layered defense requirements.