Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE536

Blackwatch International Corporation was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $151 billion by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract employs full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to issue multiple task orders to all qualifying contractors meeting responsible source and technical acceptability criteria. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the contract's performance objectives. The SHIELD IDIQ is structured as a 10-year enterprise-wide contracting vehicle designed to establish a flexible procurement mechanism for rapid order issuance across multiple security classification levels and facility clearance requirements.

The contract supports the nation's multi-layered homeland defense strategy by procuring advanced capabilities spanning research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The scope encompasses development and deployment of a multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work includes countermeasures against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles as well as other advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight. The contract vehicle is structured to leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task and delivery orders potentially utilizing various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes to meet diverse operational requirements and strategic defense objectives.