Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE557

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Nextgen Federal Systems LLC, an SBA-certified HUBZone small business headquartered in Morgantown, West Virginia, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This indefinite delivery contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, and was awarded on December 29, 2025, following a pre-solicitation notice posted May 21, 2025, and a draft solicitation released in late July 2025. The contract employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations and is structured to support the procurement of 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.

Under this contract vehicle, Nextgen Federal Systems will deliver research and development services, prototyping capabilities, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production support, test and evaluation services, cybersecurity solutions, and modernization efforts across multiple security classification levels and facility clearance requirements. Work encompasses advanced technological domains including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to counter ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats as well as other advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight. The contract structure enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders utilizing various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, positioning this IDIQ as a comprehensive contracting mechanism for the nation's multi-layered defense requirements over the 10-year period of performance.