Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE697

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Parry Labs LLC under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program effective December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and period of performance through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition vehicle, which requires no set-aside designation, is structured to procure advanced multi-domain defense systems and associated capabilities for detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile flight. The contract will be issued under FAR 15.304(c)(1)(ii), with awards anticipated to all qualifying responsible sources submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing across various contract types and multiple NAICS codes.

Work scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and digital engineering solutions leveraging artificial intelligence and open systems architectures. The contract vehicle is designed to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders under a single flexible contracting mechanism. Parry Labs LLC, a small business headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with operations in Huntsville, Alabama, brings established expertise in command and control systems, unmanned aircraft systems, open mission system architecture, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and sensor technologies derived from approximately $32 million in recognized prime contract ceiling values and demonstrated capability across multiple military agencies including the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and U.S. Navy.