Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE528

Swain Online Inc., doing business as Swain Techs, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract by the Missile Defense Agency under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program on December 29, 2025. This contract has a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, utilizing full and open competition with no set-aside designations. Under this contract vehicle, Swain Online Inc. shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities to support the government's procurement requirements in accordance with individual task order specifications. The SHIELD IDIQ represents a comprehensive 10-year contracting solution designed to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue multiple task and delivery orders for advanced defense capabilities.

The SHIELD contract 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 domains. Work under this indefinite delivery vehicle encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and will issue task orders utilizing various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with individual orders potentially requiring appropriate facility clearances. The underlying solicitation emphasizes advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements over the 10-year period of performance.