Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE445

A.T. Kearney Public Sector and Defense Services, LLC has been awarded a multiple award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program by the Missile Defense Agency, a defense-focused component of the U.S. federal government. The contract, valued at $151 billion with a ceiling extending through December 28, 2035, was awarded on December 29, 2025, following a full and open competitive solicitation with no set-aside designations. The SHIELD IDIQ vehicle is designed to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

Under this contract structure, individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes and may be issued at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains. A.T. Kearney Public Sector and Defense Services, LLC, a management consulting firm specializing in advisory services to federal defense agencies with demonstrated expertise in cost analysis, business case development, program optimization, and systems engineering support, will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance of task orders issued under this IDIQ vehicle. The multi-award structure allows the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under this flexible 10-year contracting mechanism, positioning SHIELD as a comprehensive solution for the nation's layered homeland defense requirements.