Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE663

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to World View Enterprises Inc. on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This $151 billion ceiling-value contract extends through December 28, 2035, and represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support the nation's layered defense strategy. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and disruptive technology initiatives across multiple security classification levels. Work under SHIELD will address detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partner nations, spanning all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. The procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under the flexible IDIQ structure.

An initial firm fixed-price delivery order valued at five hundred dollars was issued on December 29, 2025, with performance completion scheduled for December 28, 2035, and place of performance designated as Huntsville, Alabama. The contract vehicle is structured to issue future task and delivery orders utilizing various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. World View Enterprises, a for-profit aerospace and stratospheric exploration company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, brings relevant experience in high-altitude research, payload integration, and federal contract execution, though the company's historical focus on commercial space flight and stratospheric balloon services represents a notable diversification into the defense sector under this significant national defense initiative.