Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE829

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Kwaan Bear It Solutions, LLC for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program on December 29, 2025. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion over a 10-year period of performance through December 28, 2035, with no set-aside designations utilized. Kwaan Bear It Solutions, an Alaska Native Corporation-owned small business certified as an SBA 8(a) Program participant, was selected as one of multiple awardees under the full and open competition structure. The prime contractor is responsible for providing all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to perform this requirement in accordance with the terms of issued orders.

The SHIELD contract vehicle procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Contracted work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related activities supporting protection against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and advanced aerial attacks throughout all phases of flight. The contract framework supports both classified and unclassified programs and leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The initial task order issued December 29, 2025, designated as the SHIELD Initial Order with a ceiling value of $500 and firm fixed price pricing, is placed of performance in Huntsville, Alabama and extends through December 28, 2035.