Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE740

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne Coleman Aerospace Inc., a child company of L3Harris Technologies, Inc., with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and enables the government to issue multiple task and delivery orders for advanced multi-domain defense system capabilities. The initial task order, valued at $500 and awarded on December 29, 2025, is designated the SHIELD Initial Order with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, utilizing firm fixed price pricing and extending through the full contract period.

The SHIELD IDIQ procurement encompasses comprehensive research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts for an integrated defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains throughout all phases of flight. The contract supports national defense objectives by providing layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats, as well as advanced aerial attacks targeting the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations. Work under the contract will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with orders issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and potentially at various classification levels to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains.