Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE224

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a $151 billion Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Iridium Satellite LLC under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program effective December 29, 2025, through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition contract with no set-aside designations procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats against the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple threat vectors and flight phases, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security classification levels and utilizes various NAICS codes, incorporating advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to enable rapid ordering and flexible deployment of capabilities.

As the prime contractor, Iridium Satellite LLC brings substantial experience in satellite communications and defense technology integration to support MDA's multi-domain defense objectives. An initial delivery order for the SHIELD program, valued at five hundred dollars with firm fixed-price pricing, was issued on December 29, 2025, with performance location at Huntsville, Alabama. The initial order serves as the foundation for subsequent task orders across the 10-year contract period, which will leverage the IDIQ vehicle to enable MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly procure integrated defense solutions, systems engineering support, and advanced capabilities necessary to maintain comprehensive layered protection across multiple operational domains and threat scenarios.