Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE523

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Perikin Enterprises LLC and other qualifying contractors on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a ten-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. As a minority-owned, SBA-certified 8(a) small business headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Perikin Enterprises was selected as one of multiple awardees under full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract requires the prime contractor to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities to support task order requirements issued by the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities.

The SHIELD IDIQ procurement addresses advanced, multi-domain defense system capabilities designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related support activities across multiple security classification levels. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes utilizing various contract types, with performance requirements potentially involving facility clearances and leveraging advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This contract structure enables the Missile Defense Agency to rapidly issue orders under a single flexible mechanism to support national defense objectives for homeland protection, deployed forces, and allied nations.