Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE815

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Sintavia LLC and other qualifying contractors on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion over a 10-year period of performance through December 28, 2035, with no small business set-aside. Sintavia, a manufacturer specializing in additive manufacturing and advanced thermodynamic systems for aerospace and defense applications, was selected as a prime contractor based on its demonstrated capabilities in designing, engineering, and producing additively manufactured components for defense platforms. The contract was awarded through full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing all qualified, responsible contractors with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing to receive multiple awards under the IDIQ vehicle structure.

The SHIELD contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system architecture designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Contracted work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related capabilities leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The initial task order, awarded December 29, 2025, for $500 (representing the initial ordering period), designated Huntsville, Alabama as the place of performance. The contract supports both classified and unclassified national defense objectives and is structured to rapidly issue orders across multiple NAICS codes and security classification levels, positioning it as a comprehensive contracting vehicle for the Department of Defense's layered homeland and deployed force protection requirements.