Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE538

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Lightgrid LLC and other qualified contractors on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This $151 billion contract vehicle, which extends through December 28, 2035, represents a comprehensive ten-year procurement mechanism designed to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides and permits the government to issue task and delivery orders at varying classification levels to support both classified and unclassified defense programs. Lightgrid LLC, an SBA-certified HUBZone small business headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, was selected as a prime contractor among multiple awardees, leveraging its established experience providing information technology, telecommunications, and project management services to Department of Defense entities.

The SHIELD contract encompasses a broad scope of research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization activities focused on detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing advanced aerial threats including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work under this vehicle will incorporate disruptive technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support continuous layered protection across all phases of flight. Individual task orders will be issued under various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with pricing determined through competitive evaluation under Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii) principles requiring technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing from responsible sources. The contract structure enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a single flexible contracting mechanism tailored to support complex homeland and force protection requirements.