Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE500

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to P E Systems, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, with a ceiling value of $151.0 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, known as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, was awarded on December 29, 2025, following a pre-solicitation notice issued on May 21, 2025, and employs full and open competition with no set-asides. The SHIELD IDIQ contract vehicle is designed to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partner nations across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains.

The contract encompasses a comprehensive scope of work including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. An initial task order for the SHIELD program was issued on December 29, 2025, with performance in Huntsville, Alabama, under a firm fixed price arrangement. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs, 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 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, with ordering periods anticipated to support MDA and other Department of Defense entities in rapidly issuing orders under this flexible contracting mechanism designed to modernize and strengthen the nation's layered defense capabilities.