Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE405

CRL Technologies, Inc., a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned small business based in Alexandria, Virginia, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, reflecting a 10-year period of performance. No set-aside designation was utilized in this award, allowing full and open competition among all qualifying contractors. Under this IDV, CRL Technologies will provide comprehensive materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support the government's requirements, with individual task and delivery orders to be issued as needed throughout the contract term.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures advanced, multi-domain defense systems and supporting services to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Work scope includes research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains, covering all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with task and delivery orders utilizing various contract types across multiple industry classifications. Performance may occur at multiple locations and security classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances, and the contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains for the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities.