Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE755

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Railhead, Inc., a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This full and open competition contract, awarded December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with a period of performance through December 28, 2035. The contract supports national defense objectives by procuring advanced, multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partner nations. Work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple threat domains including air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles.

The initial task order issued to Railhead, Inc. carries a nominal ceiling value of $500 with a firm fixed-price structure and performance at the Huntsville, Alabama facility through December 28, 2035. The SHIELD IDIQ contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and will leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple NAICS codes with classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. This contracting mechanism establishes a comprehensive, long-term procurement solution enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders for critical homeland defense capabilities under a flexible, multi-award framework.