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QED Systems, LLC, a small business contractor headquartered in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, has been awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract, awarded December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a 10-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. As a multiple-award IDIQ with no set-aside designation, this contract employs full and open competition, allowing the government to issue task and delivery orders across multiple contract types and National Association of Industrial Classification (NAICS) codes. QED Systems' demonstrated expertise in Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems, advanced engineering, systems integration, and technical support positions the firm to compete for orders under this comprehensive defense procurement vehicle.

The SHIELD IDIQ solicitation, released as a pre-solicitation notice in May 2025 with draft solicitation in July 2025, seeks to establish a multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. Performance areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract supports both classified and unclassified programs utilizing advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task orders potentially requiring facility clearances at varying classification levels. This procurement represents a comprehensive, long-term contracting solution designed to enable the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders supporting national homeland defense objectives against evolving threats to U.S. forces, allies, and territory.