Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE767

The Missile Defense Agency awarded Rada Technologies LLC a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract on December 29, 2025, to support the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a $151 billion ceiling value with a 10-year performance period extending through December 28, 2035, and no set-aside designation. The SHIELD IDIQ is structured 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, encompassing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work scope includes research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts, with individual task orders potentially classified at various security levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

The initial task order, awarded on December 29, 2025, to Rada Technologies LLC carries a firm fixed-price structure with a $500 ceiling value and is scheduled for completion by December 28, 2035, with performance of work located in Huntsville, Alabama 35898. Rada Technologies, a foreign-owned subsidiary of Italian aerospace and defense conglomerate Leonardo SPA, specializes in advanced radar systems design, development, manufacturing, and integration for defense and security applications. The contractor's selection reflects its established role as an original equipment manufacturer of the Rada radar system with proprietary capabilities and extensive prior experience delivering radar engineering support, software services, and technical integration across multiple U.S. federal defense agencies including the Air Force, Marine Corps, and other Department of Defense commands. The SHIELD IDIQ multiple-award structure allows the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to issue additional delivery orders and task orders as required without competitive re-solicitation, positioning Rada Technologies as one of multiple qualified contractors available to support the government's comprehensive, long-term investment in layered homeland defense capabilities.