Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE766

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Castheon Inc. and other qualifying contractors on January 21, 2026, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract employs full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing all responsible offerors with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing to receive awards. Castheon Inc., a precision manufacturing specialist based in Thousand Oaks, California, was selected as one of the awardees based on its demonstrated capabilities in advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, and precision machining for aerospace and defense applications. The contract originated from a pre-solicitation notice posted on May 21, 2025, with an anticipated final solicitation released in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025 and award notification on December 29, 2025.

The SHIELD contract encompasses a comprehensive range of products and services supporting national homeland defense objectives, including research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization of multi-domain defense systems. The procurement focuses on developing and delivering advanced capabilities to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allies across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains throughout all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work under this Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity vehicle will be issued through individual task and delivery orders utilizing various contract types across multiple industry classification codes, with performance potentially at multiple security classification levels. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs leveraging emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, positioning this vehicle as a long-term strategic investment mechanism for the Department of Defense's multi-layered defense requirements.