Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE517

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Paragon Research Corp under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) master contract vehicle on December 29, 2025. This $151 billion, 10-year contract (with a completion date of December 28, 2035) utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides and represents a comprehensive contracting mechanism designed to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to the performance of requirements in accordance with individual task order terms. The procurement encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts supporting multiple national defense objectives.

The SHIELD contract specifically procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. Performance encompasses all phases of flight protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and NAICS codes, with individual task and delivery orders potentially issued at different classification levels. Leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, the SHIELD IDIQ functions as a flexible ordering mechanism enabling rapid task order issuance across the Department of Defense for both existing and emerging homeland defense capabilities.