Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE295

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Innovative Management and Technology Services, LLC (IMTS), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, effective December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support national defense objectives through research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract employs full and open competition with no set-asides, enabling the government to rapidly issue task and delivery orders across multiple classification levels, contract types, and North American Industry Classification System codes. Performance of work will be conducted at the Huntsville, Alabama facility and potentially other locations as specified in individual task orders.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-layered defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats to the U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract structure leverages emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains. The initial task order, awarded December 29, 2025, for the SHIELD initial order was issued at $500 on a firm fixed-price basis, representing the initial funding action under this enterprise-wide contracting vehicle that will enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to efficiently procure advanced defense capabilities over the ten-year period of performance.