Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE686

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Avint LLC, a Women-Owned Small Business certified cybersecurity company, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This procurement, awarded on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides. The contract was issued without geographic performance restrictions and is structured to support both classified and unclassified work across multiple security domains. Avint LLC's selection as a prime contractor reflects its demonstrated expertise in cybersecurity solutions and prior experience providing defense and national security services through subcontracts with major integrators such as M.C. Dean, Inc., ASRC Federal Professional Services, LLC, and ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system and supporting services designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. Contracted work encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity services, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. The contract vehicle leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support continuous, layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, and other advanced aerial threats across all phases of flight. Individual task and delivery orders issued under this IDIQ will utilize various contract types and may require facility clearances appropriate to their respective classification levels, enabling MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly procure capabilities under a single flexible contracting mechanism.