Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE775

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract, awarded by the Missile Defense Agency to Raven Defense Corporation and other qualifying contractors on December 29, 2025, represents a comprehensive multi-domain defense procurement vehicle with a ceiling value of $151 billion over a ten-year period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This full and open competition contract, issued with no small business set-aside, procures an integrated advanced defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats directed at the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allied nations. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple classification levels and security domains.

Under the SHIELD contract structure, individual task and delivery orders will be issued across various contract types and multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly procure capabilities leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Raven Defense Corporation, a defense contractor based in Albuquerque, New Mexico with demonstrated expertise in test and evaluation technologies, telemetry systems, and communication support for military applications, was selected as one of multiple awardees under this enterprise-wide contracting vehicle. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to fulfill individual task and delivery orders issued under the contract, with all potential offerors required to maintain active registration in the System for Award Management and possess appropriate facility clearances for classified program participation.