Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE265

Quality Aero Inc., doing business as Acquisition Logistics Engineering, has been awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), a defense agency under the Department of Defense. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, and was awarded on December 29, 2025, following a pre-solicitation notice posted on May 21, 2025. No set-asides were utilized in this procurement, which employed full and open competition allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards. Quality Aero Inc. is an SBA Certified Women-Owned Small Business with a Unique Entity Identifier of K6PBS5DKCBW6 and has demonstrated a 100% completion and funding rate across its historical government contracts, primarily serving the Department of Defense Navy.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract is structured to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats, as well as advanced aerial attacks. The contract leverages emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, and is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs requiring appropriate security facility clearances. As a comprehensive enterprise-wide contracting vehicle, individual task and delivery orders under SHIELD will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes, enabling the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders within the flexible IDIQ mechanism over the 10-year period of performance.