Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE700

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract is a $151 billion defense procurement awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. Orbital Insight, Inc., a geospatial analytics and location intelligence firm, is one of multiple awardees selected under full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract vehicle is structured to support research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts for an advanced multi-domain defense system. Work areas encompass detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization of air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract is designed to support both classified and unclassified programs utilizing emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with task orders to be issued at varying classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.

The initial task order awarded to Orbital Insight under SHIELD carries a firm fixed price of $500 and a completion date of December 28, 2035, with performance centered in Huntsville, Alabama. Given Orbital Insight's existing expertise in geospatial analytics, satellite imagery analysis, and location intelligence services previously delivered to the Department of Homeland Security and Department of the Air Force, the contractor's contributions to SHIELD are anticipated to focus on advanced analytical capabilities and intelligence support for the layered defense architecture. The contract mechanism enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue delivery orders across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and contract types as requirements evolve, positioning SHIELD as a comprehensive, long-term contracting solution for national multi-layered defense capabilities.