Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE798

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Synapp Inc., a Woman Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in cybersecurity and systems engineering services, effective December 29, 2025. The SHIELD (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense) contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion over a 10-year period extending through December 28, 2035, with no set-aside designation utilized. The contract employs full and open competition allowing multiple contractors to be awarded positions on the vehicle, enabling the government to issue task and delivery orders across various contract types and classification levels. Synapp Inc. was issued an initial delivery order valued at $500 (Firm Fixed Price) with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, serving as the foundation for future task order issuances under the IDIQ framework.

The SHIELD IDIQ procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system encompassing research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and cybersecurity modernization efforts. The contract supports national defense objectives by addressing continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Work scope includes disruptive technologies, digital engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, and open systems architectures, with individual orders potentially operating at multiple security classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. This contracting vehicle is designed to provide the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities with a flexible mechanism to rapidly procure advanced homeland defense capabilities through scalable task orders issued over the decade-long period of performance.