Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE537

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, awarded to Act1 Federal LLC on December 29, 2025, represents a 10-year defense procurement vehicle funded by the Missile Defense Agency with a ceiling value of $151 billion. This contract employs a multiple award structure with no set-aside designation, allowing full and open competition among qualified contractors. Act1 Federal LLC, a mission-critical solutions provider headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, was selected as one of the awardees to support the government's multi-domain defense objectives. The contract will remain in effect through December 28, 2035, providing a flexible procurement mechanism for the federal government to issue individual task and delivery orders across multiple functional domains and classification levels.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures comprehensive advanced defense capabilities including research and development, systems engineering, prototyping, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contracted services are designed to deliver an integrated, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as advanced aerial attacks and hybrid threats. The contract supports work spanning air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and may require facility clearances for classified and unclassified program support. The contract vehicle represents a significant long-term investment in layered homeland defense capabilities, enabling rapid order issuance under a unified contracting structure to support both Missile Defense Agency and broader Department of Defense modernization objectives.