Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE584

Praescient Analytics LLC, a women-owned and veteran-owned small business headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract, designated the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, operates under full and open competition with no small business set-aside designation. Under this vehicle, Praescient Analytics and other qualifying contractors compete for task orders supporting the nation's multi-layered defense infrastructure across a 10-year period of performance.

The SHIELD contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Contractor work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and enterprise solutions leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task orders will utilize various contract types across multiple industry classification codes and may operate at different security classification levels, supporting both classified and unclassified programs. The contract vehicle is structured to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders for complex, long-term defense capabilities under a single flexible contracting mechanism, positioning Praescient Analytics to compete for significant opportunities within this comprehensive homeland defense initiative.