Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE518

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program to Cummings Aerospace, Inc., a Native American woman-owned small business based in Huntsville, Alabama. This contract, awarded on December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with performance extending through December 28, 2035. The contract employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations and utilizes multiple contract types across various North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes to support both classified and unclassified defense programs. Cummings Aerospace will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required for contract performance in accordance with individual task and delivery order requirements issued by the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract is structured to procure advanced, multi-domain defense systems and supporting services encompassing research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract supports national defense objectives by enabling detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. Cummings Aerospace's technical capabilities in digital engineering, hypersonic technologies, open systems architectures, weapons system modeling and simulation, and test and evaluation—demonstrated through prior Air Force and Naval Sea Systems Command awards—position the contractor to support this expansive defense enterprise through competitive task order issuance over the 10-year performance period.