Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE401

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Aerodyne Industries, LLC on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract vehicle, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, represents a comprehensive contracting mechanism for advanced multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the U.S. homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations. The contract encompasses work across research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. The procurement utilized full and open competition with no set-aside designations, enabling all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under the IDIQ structure. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple NAICS codes with various contract types, potentially at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.

Aerodyne Industries, an aerospace engineering and information technology services firm with substantial experience supporting defense and space programs, will execute this contract through the issuance of individual task orders and delivery orders by the Missile Defense Agency and other authorized Department of Defense entities. The contract vehicle leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains. This SHIELD IDIQ contract serves as a strategic long-term investment vehicle enabling the government to rapidly procure capabilities and services essential to maintaining and advancing the nation's layered defense posture. No specific incumbent contractors were identified in the original solicitation, as the SHIELD program was designed as a new enterprise-wide contracting mechanism to provide flexible and efficient procurement options for homeland defense modernization initiatives.