Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE244

Missing Link Communications LLC, a Women-Owned Small Business certified contractor, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance through December 28, 2035. The contract, designated Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), was awarded on December 29, 2025, with no set-aside restrictions and utilizing full and open competition. An initial delivery order valued at $500 was placed on the same award date with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. This IDIQ contract vehicle is structured to support multiple work categories across various contract types and NAICS codes, enabling rapid issuance of task orders for both classified and unclassified defense programs.

The SHIELD IDIQ procures comprehensive multi-domain defense system capabilities including research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts. The contract scope encompasses detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. Work areas include disruptive technologies development, cybersecurity services, and integration of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued utilizing firm fixed price and other pricing arrangements, with the contract structured to support both current and future national defense modernization initiatives across the Department of Defense enterprise.