Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE776

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract is a multiple award, no-set-aside procurement issued by the Missile Defense Agency with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. Awarded to Valence Vector Labs LLC on December 29, 2025, this contract vehicle procures advanced, multi-domain defense systems and related services capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, and allies. The contract encompasses a broad range of work areas including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and hypersonic and ballistic missile defense capabilities across all phases of flight.

The initial delivery order issued under this IDIQ, valued at five hundred dollars with a firm fixed-price structure, was awarded on December 29, 2025, with performance to be completed at the Missile Defense Agency's facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The SHIELD contract 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. The procurement utilized full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under the flexible IDIQ mechanism, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task and delivery orders tailored to specific defense requirements and security classification levels.