Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE375

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Gauss Management Research and Engineering Inc. (GMRE), a veteran-owned small business headquartered in Ogden, Utah, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract, awarded on December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year period of performance. The procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides and was structured to award to all qualifying offerors meeting technical and pricing standards under Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii). GMRE's selection demonstrates its established capabilities in technical and engineering services for the Department of Defense, leveraging its experience across aerospace, systems integration, and advanced technology domains.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ, GMRE will provide comprehensive materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support a multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts addressing threats from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles across all flight phases. Work will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures across multiple classification levels and security domains. The initial task order, the SHIELD Initial Order awarded on December 29, 2025, is structured as a firm fixed price delivery order with a ceiling value of $500 and a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, with performance extending through December 28, 2035.