Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE251

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Waltonen Engineering Inc., a small business precision engineering and manufacturing firm headquartered in Warren, Michigan, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This full and open competition contract, effective December 29, 2025, through December 28, 2035, carries a $151 billion ceiling value and supports the development and delivery of an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The contract encompasses work across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains, addressing ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats across all phases of flight, with no set-aside designation applied to this award.

The scope of work under SHIELD includes research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types and may be issued at different security classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. Task orders will span multiple NAICS codes and will be issued on an as-needed basis by the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities. Waltonen Engineering, which possesses significant federal contracting experience as a Tier 1 Original Equipment Manufacturer supplier with over 50 years of service to the defense sector, is positioned to compete for and fulfill orders under this flexible, long-term contracting vehicle supporting the nation's multi-layered defense requirements.