Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE585

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Jiracor LLC, an SBA-certified Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business and 8(a) Program Participant, on December 29, 2025. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year period of performance. This full and open competition contract utilizes no set-aside designations despite the awardee's small business certifications, allowing the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue multiple task and delivery orders under a unified contracting mechanism. The contract was solicited as a pre-solicitation notice posted on May 21, 2025, with the final Request for Proposal anticipated in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025.

The SHIELD contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all flight phases, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Contracted work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The initial delivery order, valued at $500 and awarded simultaneously on December 29, 2025, is identified as the SHIELD Initial Order with place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, under Firm Fixed Price pricing. Individual task orders will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes and security classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances to support both classified and unclassified programs supporting national defense objectives for homeland protection and deployed forces protection.