Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE281

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, awarded to General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, represents a comprehensive $151 billion defense procurement vehicle with a 10-year performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This multiple award IDIQ contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing the government to issue task orders and delivery orders across multiple contractor vehicles. The contract is structured to support research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and disruptive technology initiatives. Work encompasses both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, with task and delivery orders potentially utilizing various contract types and requiring appropriate facility clearances for personnel supporting operations at different classification levels.

The SHIELD IDIQ procurement procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system architecture capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract vehicle leverages emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to deliver integrated layered defense capabilities. As a General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. parent company contract with established expertise in Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems, radar technologies, and advanced electronics manufacturing, the vehicle enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly execute orders under a single flexible contracting mechanism supporting the nation's multi-layered homeland defense requirements.