Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE483

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Beshenich Muir & Associates, LLC (BMA), a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, on December 29, 2025. The contract, designated Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and extends through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition procurement includes no set-aside designations and was structured to award to all qualifying offerors submitting technically acceptable proposals at fair and reasonable pricing. BMA, as one of the awarded contractors, is positioned to deliver task orders under this vehicle, with an initial delivery order valued at $500 issued for SHIELD initial order work. The place of performance is identified as Huntsville, Alabama 35898.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system and associated development efforts to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across all phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile flight. The contract vehicle is designed to leverage emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with capability to issue orders at multiple classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, allowing MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly procure integrated defense solutions through a flexible, enterprise-wide contracting mechanism over the 10-year performance period.