Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE489

Red Alpha LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business and SBA 8(a) Program Participant, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year enterprise-wide contracting vehicle designed to support the nation's multi-layered defense capabilities. This procurement was conducted under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards. As a Multiple Award vehicle, Red Alpha will compete alongside other awardees for individual task orders and delivery orders issued by the MDA and other Department of Defense entities.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ, Red Alpha will provide comprehensive materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support advanced multi-domain defense system development and deployment. The scope of work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts targeting threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. The contract supports detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization capabilities against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Work will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with the resulting contract potentially issuing orders at various classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances and supporting both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and North American Industry Classification System codes.