Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE790

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Parallel Wireless, Inc. (UEI: VEWNLJRHBVZ3) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, designated as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, represents a comprehensive contracting vehicle designed 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. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. The procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards under the IDIQ structure.

The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and may be issued at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The initial task order, valued at five hundred dollars and designated as the SHIELD Initial Order, was awarded simultaneously with the IDIQ contract with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. This contracting vehicle is positioned to enable the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under one flexible contract mechanism, providing continuous, layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks across all phases of flight.