Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE626

Exodus Intelligence LLC was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), a defense agency within the Department of Defense. The contract, awarded on December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year period of performance. Under this IDIQ vehicle, Exodus Intelligence will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support task orders issued by MDA and other Department of Defense entities. No set-aside designations were used in this procurement, which was conducted under full and open competition allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and anticipates individual task and delivery orders utilizing various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procurement seeks to establish a comprehensive contracting mechanism for an advanced, multi-domain 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 partners. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats and other advanced aerial attacks. Exodus Intelligence, a small business specializing in cyber vulnerability intelligence and software services, will leverage its expertise in advanced cybersecurity research and development to support these national defense objectives. The contract vehicle is designed to facilitate rapid order issuance and utilize emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support MDA's modernization and capability enhancement initiatives.