Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE335

Soft TECH Consulting, Inc., a women-owned small business headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This unrestricted competition contract represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders for advanced defense systems and related services. No small business set-asides were applied to this procurement, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under the IDIQ structure.

The SHIELD contract procures an advanced, integrated defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping of disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization initiatives spanning all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Individual task orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and may be issued at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a flexible, long-term contracting solution for the nation's layered defense requirements.