Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE703

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Ahtna Logistics, LLC, an Alaska Native Corporation-owned small business, effective December 29, 2025, with a 10-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The contract vehicle is designed to support MDA and other Department of Defense entities in procuring advanced, multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partner nations across all flight phases from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Ahtna Logistics and other qualified multiple awardees will compete for individual task and delivery orders issued under the contract mechanism.

The SHIELD IDIQ encompasses comprehensive work areas spanning research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task orders will utilize various contract types and pricing mechanisms, with the initial delivery order awarded to Ahtna Logistics for SHIELD initial order activities in Huntsville, Alabama, valued at five hundred dollars on a firm fixed-price basis. The solicitation, posted as a pre-solicitation notice on May 21, 2025, required proposals by September 15, 2025, with awards made to all responsible sources submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing, contingent upon System for Award Management registration and appropriate facility clearances.