Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE359

K2 Group, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Under this Indefinite Delivery vehicle, K2 Group will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities to support research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related activities. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and was awarded to all qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing, consistent with Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii).

The initial task order, issued under Firm Fixed Price contracting with a nominal ceiling value of $500, directs performance of the SHIELD initial order activities with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The Indefinite Delivery contract structure is designed to provide the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities with a flexible mechanism to rapidly issue task orders across multiple NAICS codes at various classification levels, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The ten-year period of performance, consisting of a base ordering period and one or more optional ordering periods, positions this contracting vehicle as a comprehensive long-term solution supporting the nation's layered homeland defense requirements and strategic modernization objectives.