Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE296

Decibel Research, Inc., a small business specializing in radar systems and sensor technology based in Huntsville, Alabama, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, was awarded under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue task orders across multiple work areas and contract types. The contract represents a 10-year enterprise-wide contracting vehicle designed to procure advanced, multi-domain defense capabilities that detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the U.S. homeland, deployed forces, and allies across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts, with individual task and delivery orders structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and NAICS codes. The initial delivery order issued on December 29, 2025, carried a firm fixed price of $500 with performance at the Huntsville, Alabama location. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide continuous, layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight, positioning the SHIELD IDIQ as a comprehensive contracting mechanism to support the nation's multi-layered homeland defense requirements.