Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE377

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to RCT Systems, Inc. and other qualifying contractors under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract vehicle, valued at $151 billion with a performance period through December 28, 2035, represents a comprehensive procurement for an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allies. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related services across all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. RCT Systems, a Baltimore-based defense contractor specializing in advanced power and energy systems technology, was selected as one of multiple awardees on December 29, 2025, competing under full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract supports classified and unclassified programs leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures across multiple security domains and facility clearance levels.

An initial task order valued at five hundred dollars for SHIELD has been issued to RCT Systems with a firm fixed-price pricing structure and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The task order is being performed in Huntsville, Alabama, representing the Missile Defense Agency's initial delivery order under the SHIELD IDIQ vehicle. This initial order establishes the contractual framework enabling RCT Systems and other awarded contractors to receive subsequent delivery orders for various defense capabilities and services supporting the agency's layered defense objectives. The contract structure allows the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task orders across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with individual orders potentially utilizing different contract types and classification levels to address evolving homeland defense requirements.