Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE384

Crean & Associates, Inc. (doing business as Crean Inc.), a women-owned small business specializing in aerospace engineering consulting and smart factory technology, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with performance extending through December 28, 2035. This procurement supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) initiative, a comprehensive multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. No set-asides were utilized in this full and open competition, and work is being performed at the contractor's facilities in Huntsville, Alabama, with performance extending across multiple security classification levels and NAICS codes.

The initial delivery order issued under this IDIQ contract, titled the SHIELD Initial Order, was awarded on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of five hundred dollars under firm fixed-price pricing. This task order structure reflects the indefinite quantity nature of the vehicle, allowing the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue future orders for specific requirements as national defense priorities evolve. The contract is designed to leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Crean Inc.'s background in systems architecture development, requirements definition, interface specifications, verification planning, and test activity coordination positions the firm to support the technical and engineering integration aspects of this large-scale defense procurement across its anticipated decade-long period of performance.