Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE480

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to A T A, LLC (doing business as Advanced Technology Applications) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract vehicle, designated the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement designed to support national defense objectives through advanced capabilities for detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue multiple task and delivery orders across various contract types and classification levels. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with individual orders leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

A T A, LLC, a tribally owned firm and Small Business Administration Certified 8A Program Participant headquartered in Great Falls, Virginia, was selected as one of multiple awardees under this vehicle. The contractor is responsible for providing all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance of issued orders. The company brings relevant experience in advanced analytics, modeling and simulation, object tracking technologies, and operational analytics platforms through previous Department of Defense and Missile Defense Agency contracts. The 10-year ordering period is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, with task and delivery orders potentially issued at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. This SHIELD IDIQ contract represents a significant long-term investment mechanism enabling rapid task order issuance for the nation's multi-layered defense requirements.