Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE478

R & K Enterprise Solutions Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The contract employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations and utilizes firm fixed price delivery orders. The awarded initial task order, titled "Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Initial Order," is valued at $500 and has been assigned a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. This contract vehicle was issued pursuant to a pre-solicitation notice released on May 21, 2025, with a final Request for Proposal anticipated for release in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025.

The SHIELD contract is structured as a comprehensive, multi-domain defense system procurement designed to support national defense objectives through continuous layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. The contract is designed to leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with the flexibility to issue orders at varying classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly procure integrated professional services and technical solutions supporting mission-critical defense objectives over the 10-year performance period.