Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE636

Air Combat Effectiveness Consulting Group, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in Lexington Park, Maryland, has been awarded a position on the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle administered by the Missile Defense Agency. This multiple award contract, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035, utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract was awarded on December 29, 2025, following a pre-solicitation notice issued on May 21, 2025, and represents a comprehensive contracting mechanism designed to support national defense objectives through rapid task order issuance across multiple functional domains and classification levels.

The SHIELD IDIQ procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Work scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts addressing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple NAICS codes utilizing various contract types, with the contract structured to support both classified and unclassified programs leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. As a contractor with established expertise in engineering support, systems analysis, and technical consulting for Department of Defense programs, Air Combat Effectiveness Consulting Group will compete for task orders under this enterprise-wide contracting vehicle.