Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE343

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at $151 billion to the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) and other qualifying contractors on December 29, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), represents a comprehensive 10-year procurement vehicle designed to support the development, production, and modernization of advanced multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and production efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains, including protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles throughout all phases of flight. The procurement was conducted with full and open competition and no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under the IDIQ structure.

Under this indefinite delivery vehicle, NCDMM has received an initial delivery order valued at $500 on December 29, 2025, for SHIELD initial order work to be performed in Huntsville, Alabama, under a firm fixed-price arrangement. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. NCDMM's selection aligns with its established expertise in advanced manufacturing, research, and workforce development for defense applications, supported by its extensive portfolio of prior defense contracts exceeding $145 million and its operational capabilities in aerospace, missile systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and critical defense manufacturing sectors. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple industry classifications, with potential ordering periods extending throughout the decade of performance.