Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE613

Intel Federal LLC has been awarded a $151 billion Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to support the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract, effective December 29, 2025, through December 28, 2035, represents a comprehensive, 10-year enterprise-wide contracting vehicle designed to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. Work will address ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats across all phases of flight, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, with individual task and delivery orders employing various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes.

The initial task order issued under this IDIQ, awarded on December 29, 2025, is valued at $500 (Firm Fixed Price) with performance location in Huntsville, Alabama and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. Intel Federal LLC, headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, brings substantial expertise in high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, networking, microelectronics, and cybersecurity to this engagement, supported by prior significant prime and subcontract awards totaling over $50 million in recent years from the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. The company's relevant experience includes advanced computing architecture development, secure 5G network implementation, hardware security research, and cryogenic computing technologies through multiple prior DARPA Other Transaction agreements and cooperative agreements with federal research agencies, positioning it to execute the multi-faceted SHIELD program requirements.