Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE720

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Advent Diamond, Inc., a woman-owned small business specializing in advanced diamond-based technologies, effective December 29, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and operates under full and open competition with no set-aside designations. The initial task order, awarded on the same date as the base contract, has a ceiling value of $500 and is firm fixed price in nature, with performance at the Missile Defense Agency facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified work across multiple security domains and anticipates utilizing various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes.

The SHIELD contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. Work areas encompass 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 from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide continuous, layered protection. As an established innovator in quantum sensing, specialized materials, and diamond-based semiconductor technologies, Advent Diamond is positioned to contribute advanced technological solutions to the government's comprehensive multi-layered defense requirements under this 10-year contracting vehicle.