Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE438

Aetos Systems Inc., a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business certified as a Women-Owned Small Business, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract has a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, and operates under full and open competition with no set-aside designations. Under this IDV, Aetos Systems will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the government's issuance of task and delivery orders across multiple work areas and security classifications.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract is designed to procure advanced, multi-domain defense system capabilities for detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friendly nations. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, 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 from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract vehicle supports both classified and unclassified programs leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task orders potentially issued at varying classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances and utilizing different contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes.