Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE777

Avawatz Co, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business headquartered in Frisco, Texas, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at $151 billion under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025. The contract extends through December 28, 2035, and operates under full and open competition with no set-aside designations. As a prime contractor on this enterprise-wide vehicle, Avawatz Co will participate in procuring an advanced, multi-domain 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 to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners.

The scope of work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and will be issued at different classification levels, requiring appropriate facility clearances to support both classified and unclassified programs. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide a flexible, comprehensive contracting solution. Work will be performed in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.304(c)(1)(ii) guidelines, with the government awarding orders to all qualifying responsible sources that submit technically acceptable proposals demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under this consolidated contract mechanism.