Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE461

Zantech IT Services, Inc., a women-owned small business headquartered in Reston, Virginia, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program on December 29, 2025. The contract, funded by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and extends through December 28, 2035. As a multiple-award vehicle with no set-aside designation, this contract enables the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to issue task and delivery orders for advanced multi-domain defense system capabilities. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the contract's performance objectives.

The SHIELD IDIQ procurement is designed to acquire an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract vehicle supports both classified and unclassified programs at varying security levels and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with task orders and pricing to be negotiated on an order-by-order basis under this flexible contracting mechanism designed to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements.