Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE602

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract valued at $151 billion to ITC Defense Corp and other qualifying contractors for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract, awarded on December 29, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations. ITC Defense Corp, a small business headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina, serves as one of the prime contractors selected under this 10-year multiple-award IDIQ structure. The contract is funded by the Missile Defense Agency, a defense-focused federal agency, and encompasses a comprehensive scope of work designed to provide multi-domain defense capabilities protecting the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partner nations against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats.

The contracted products and services include research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization of advanced defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work areas encompass disruptive technologies, cybersecurity initiatives, and digital engineering leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities across open systems architectures. Individual task orders will be issued at various classification levels, with an initial delivery order for SHIELD valued at $500 issued to ITC Defense Corp on December 29, 2025, with performance location in Huntsville, Alabama, structured under firm fixed-price pricing. The contract vehicle is designed to support both classified and unclassified programs, enabling the government to rapidly issue orders under a flexible contracting mechanism for multi-layered homeland defense requirements across multiple Defense Department entities.