Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE596

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Onyx Aerospace Inc., an SBA-certified HUBZone small business based in Huntsville, Alabama, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance through December 28, 2035. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract represents a comprehensive multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and disruptive technologies. The contract will procure advanced defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats across air, missile, space, and cyber domains, with protection extending across all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under the IDIQ structure, and is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

Under this Multiple Award IDIQ vehicle, the initial task order issued to Onyx Aerospace on December 29, 2025, titled the SHIELD Initial Order, is valued at five hundred dollars under a Firm Fixed Price delivery order structure with a completion date of December 28, 2035. While the initial order value appears nominal, it establishes Onyx Aerospace's position within the IDIQ contract for potential future task order awards. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to perform contracted requirements in accordance with order terms. As a HUBZone-certified small business with prior experience providing aerospace systems engineering and technical services to prime contractors including Boeing and Bechtel National, Onyx Aerospace is positioned to support the government's long-term multi-layered homeland defense objectives through this ten-year contracting vehicle.