Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE373

Innovative Defense Technologies, LLC has been awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, funded by the Missile Defense Agency. The contract, valued at $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, was awarded on December 29, 2025, with no set-aside designation used. As a prime contractor, Innovative Defense Technologies will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the SHIELD program's comprehensive defense objectives. The contract encompasses a 10-year period of performance consisting of a base ordering period and one or more optional ordering periods, enabling the government to issue multiple task and delivery orders under a single flexible contracting vehicle.

The SHIELD IDIQ procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats against the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allies across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work areas include research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract utilizes full and open competition, allowing multiple qualifying contractors to receive awards, and supports both classified and unclassified programs leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes using various contract types, with performance potentially requiring appropriate security facility clearances depending on classification levels.