Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE688

Steerbridge Strategies LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery contract by the Missile Defense Agency with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a comprehensive multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and encompasses work areas including 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 for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles.

An initial delivery order under the SHIELD contract was awarded on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $500 and a firm fixed price structure, supporting work to be performed in Huntsville, Alabama through December 28, 2035. The SHIELD IDIQ contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task and delivery orders structured across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and security classification levels to support both classified and unclassified programs. This contracting vehicle is designed to provide the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities with a flexible mechanism to rapidly issue orders addressing the nation's multi-layered defense requirements across multiple domains over the 10-year performance period.