Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE605

Aleut Aerospace Engineering, LLC, an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned small disadvantaged business, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, and operates under full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract requires the contractor to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance under individual task orders issued in accordance with the contract terms. This vehicle was established following a pre-solicitation notice posted in May 2025 and represents a comprehensive, enterprise-wide contracting mechanism designed to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders for advanced multi-domain defense capabilities.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an integrated, multi-layered 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. Work areas span the full spectrum from research and development and prototyping of disruptive technologies through systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile flight. Individual task and delivery orders will be structured across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and contract types, with resultant work potentially classified at various security levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The contract vehicle leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support both classified and unclassified programs, positioning this contracting solution as a strategic instrument for the nation's layered homeland defense requirements over the ten-year period of performance.