Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE361

Optilab LLC has been awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), valued at $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a comprehensive multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. This full and open competition contract utilizes no set-asides and allows multiple qualified contractors to compete for orders under the IDIQ vehicle, with individual task orders utilizing various contract types across multiple NAICS codes and supporting both classified and unclassified programs.

The initial delivery order issued under this IDIQ, valued at $500, was awarded to Optilab LLC on December 29, 2025, with performance at the Huntsville, Alabama location. Optilab, an Asian-Pacific American-owned small business specializing in photonics and fiber optic products, brings established expertise in laser systems, optical components, and advanced materials relevant to defense applications, having previously supplied specialized photonics equipment to the U.S. Navy, Department of Commerce, and other federal agencies. The SHIELD IDIQ leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a flexible, enterprise-wide contracting mechanism enabling MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly procure capabilities across the 10-year period of performance.