Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE641

Miller Engineering & Research Corp (Doing Business As Merc Aerospace), an SBA Certified Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) 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 a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition contract utilized no set-aside designations, allowing qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards. The SHIELD IDIQ serves as a comprehensive, enterprise-wide contracting vehicle enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders for a broad spectrum of advanced defense capabilities.

The contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as advanced aerial attacks. The contract structure supports classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains at various classification levels, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes, with ordering periods structured as a base ordering period and one or more optional ordering periods to facilitate flexible, responsive procurement of next-generation homeland defense capabilities.