Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE285

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Signalink Inc., an SBA Certified Women-Owned Small Business, on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract vehicle. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, utilizing full and open competition with no set-aside restrictions. Signalink will provide materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The contractor will support work spanning research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across all flight phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as advanced aerial threats.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract represents a comprehensive, flexible ordering mechanism designed to enable the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders for advanced multi-layered homeland defense capabilities. Individual orders under the vehicle will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and security classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. As a multiple-award vehicle, the contract allows all qualifying offerors meeting responsibility standards, technical acceptability, and fair and reasonable pricing criteria to receive awards, establishing SHIELD as a significant long-term strategic investment in national defense infrastructure over its ten-year period of performance.