Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE482

Viderity Inc., a women-owned small business and HUBZone-certified firm, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency valued at $151 billion through December 28, 2035. The contract, designated as Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), was awarded on December 29, 2025, with no set-aside restrictions, allowing full and open competition among all qualifying contractors. The underlying solicitation, released as a pre-solicitation notice in May 2025 with the final Request for Proposal issued in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, was structured to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains.

The SHIELD contract encompasses a comprehensive range of work areas including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles and other advanced aerial threats. The initial delivery order issued to Viderity Inc. carries a ceiling value of $500 for the initial order, with performance to occur in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract vehicle is designed to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging 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 NAICS codes, with orders issued at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances, positioning SHIELD as a comprehensive contracting solution for the nation's multi-layered defense requirements over the 10-year period of performance.