Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE385

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to General Atomics Systems Integration, LLC (Doing Business As General Atomics Aero Services) on January 21, 2026, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This indefinite delivery vehicle was established under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, enabling the government to issue multiple task and delivery orders to qualifying contractors for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract was originally solicited as a pre-solicitation notice posted on May 21, 2025, with the final request for proposal anticipated for release in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance under the terms of individual orders, with work performed at the Huntsville, Alabama location.

The SHIELD contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts addressing ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks throughout all phases of flight. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types and pricing mechanisms across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with an initial delivery order valued at five hundred dollars issued on January 21, 2026, under firm fixed price terms.