Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE756

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Metrea Algorithmics LLC, a small business subchapter S corporation, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract, valued at $151 billion with a period of performance through December 28, 2035, was awarded on January 21, 2026, following a pre-solicitation notice issued in May 2025 and draft solicitation in July 2025. The procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualifying contractors to compete for multiple awards. Metrea Algorithmics, headquartered in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, was selected as a prime contractor based on its demonstrated capabilities in developing advanced technological solutions for national security applications, including high-fidelity simulation technologies, software platforms, and integrated hardware solutions.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract aims to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts, leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The initial delivery order, awarded simultaneously on January 21, 2026, carries a nominal ceiling value of $500 and identifies the place of performance as Huntsville, Alabama, with final task and delivery orders to be issued under firm-fixed-price arrangements across multiple classification levels and security domains as operational requirements dictate.