Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE541

Metis Technology Solutions, Inc., a Women-Owned Small Business certified prime contractor headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) master IDIQ program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year period of performance. The award was issued through full and open competition with no small business set-aside designation, allowing the government to procure comprehensive defense capabilities through task and delivery orders issued against this flexible contract vehicle. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance in accordance with individual order requirements.

The SHIELD IDIQ procurement is designed to support multi-domain homeland defense operations by enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly acquire advanced capabilities for detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, modernization efforts, and disruptive technology development across multiple classification levels and security domains. The contract structure allows for orders utilizing various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and leverages emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will require facility clearances consistent with their classification levels, positioning this vehicle as a comprehensive contracting solution for the nation's layered defense requirements across multiple operational domains and geographic theaters.