Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE714

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, awarded to Missionedge Technologies, LLC on December 29, 2025, represents a $151 billion defense procurement vehicle funded by the Missile Defense Agency with a ten-year period of performance through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition, multiple-award contract utilizes no set-asides and is structured to support both classified and unclassified defense initiatives across multiple security domains. The SHIELD IDIQ contract encompasses comprehensive capabilities spanning research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts focused on detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile defense. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a flexible contracting mechanism enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue multiple task and delivery orders under a unified vehicle.

An initial delivery order valued at five hundred dollars was issued on December 29, 2025, with a firm fixed price pricing structure and performance location in Huntsville, Alabama. Individual task and delivery orders issued under the SHIELD IDIQ will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, with resultant contracts potentially requiring different security clearance levels and facility certifications to support the multi-layered defense requirements. The original solicitation, posted as a pre-solicitation notice on May 21, 2025, with responses due September 15, 2025, emphasized that all qualifying offerors demonstrating technical acceptability, responsibility, and fair and reasonable pricing would be eligible for multiple award considerations under the FAR 15.304(c)(1)(ii) procurement process.