Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE393

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract, awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, represents a $151 billion, 10-year enterprise-wide contracting vehicle designed to support advanced multi-domain defense capabilities. Prime contractor Davis Strategic Innovations, Inc., a veteran-owned small business specializing in engineering services, was selected as one of multiple awardees under full and open competition with no set-asides. The contract establishes a flexible ordering mechanism enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue task orders for research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts related to homeland defense systems. The ultimate completion date is December 28, 2035, with performance to be executed across multiple classification levels and security domains requiring appropriate facility clearances.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an integrated, multi-layered defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and advanced aerial attacks directed at the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partner nations. Work scope encompasses disruptive technologies, systems engineering, cybersecurity enhancements, and leverages emerging capabilities including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders under the contract will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with the contractor responsible for providing all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance. As a subcontractor on defense programs with prime contractors including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, Davis Strategic Innovations brings multidiscipline engineering expertise, space systems development, software development, and quality assurance capabilities to support the government's long-term investment in layered homeland defense requirements.