Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE349

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Inovex Information Systems Inc. a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at $151 billion with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract, awarded December 29, 2025, utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing multiple qualified contractors to compete for task orders. The contract vehicle is designed to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts addressing ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats throughout all phases of flight.

The contract structure leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types and pricing mechanisms across multiple NAICS codes, with an initial delivery order valued at five hundred dollars awarded to Inovex on the same date as the IDIQ award. The place of performance is identified as Huntsville, Alabama 35898, USA. The SHIELD IDIQ represents a comprehensive, long-term contracting solution enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a single flexible contract mechanism, positioning it as a significant strategic investment in the nation's layered homeland defense capabilities.