Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE268

Life Cycle Engineering Inc. (LCE) was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, with a $151 billion ceiling value and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract, known as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, represents a 10-year comprehensive contracting vehicle designed to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats. The contract encompasses a broad scope of services including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The solicitation explicitly states that the contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance, with individual task and delivery orders potentially spanning multiple contract types and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes at various classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.

The SHIELD IDIQ was procured under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, structured to enable MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders across multiple domains and security classifications. The contract vehicle leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to address evolving threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight. LCE's selection reflects the company's demonstrated expertise in complex federal engineering and technical services, though this contract represents a significant expansion beyond LCE's primary historical focus on naval systems and maritime technologies with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). The contract structure allows for multiple concurrent task and delivery orders with varying performance locations and security requirements, positioning the SHIELD IDIQ as a flexible, enterprise-wide contracting mechanism for the nation's homeland defense modernization initiatives.