Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE796

Steeltoad Consulting LLC, an SBA-certified HUBZone firm, has been awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), a defense agency within the Department of Defense. The contract was awarded on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This procurement utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, enabling the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to issue multiple task and delivery orders under a single flexible contracting vehicle. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance in accordance with order terms, with individual task orders utilizing various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract establishes a comprehensive, multi-domain defense capability designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains at various classification levels, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. As a multiple-award vehicle, the contract enables rapid task order issuance to support national defense objectives and represents a significant long-term investment in layered homeland defense capabilities.