Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE818

Stone Solutions And Research Collective LLC, a minority-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency with a $151 billion ceiling value and a period of performance through December 28, 2035. The contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a comprehensive multi-domain defense initiative designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The procurement encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple classification levels and security domains. The contract was awarded without set-asides under full and open competition, allowing the government to rapidly issue task orders for advanced defense capabilities leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

The initial task order issued under this vehicle, the SHIELD Initial Order, was awarded on December 29, 2025, with a firm fixed price of five hundred dollars and performance in Huntsville, Alabama, extending through December 28, 2035. This Multiple Award IDIQ structure was solicited as a pre-solicitation notice in May 2025, with the final request for proposal released in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, and positions the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to execute flexible, rapid procurement across various contract types and NAICS codes. All offerors were required to demonstrate responsibility, technical acceptability, and fair and reasonable pricing under Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii) competitive procedures, with registration in the System for Award Management as a mandatory eligibility requirement.