Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE833

Lawelawe Defense, Inc., a Native Hawaiian-owned small disadvantaged business certified under the SBA 8(a) program, has been awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $151 billion by the Missile Defense Agency with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, which procures advanced, multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract was awarded under full and open competition with no set-aside designations on December 29, 2025, and is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

Under this multiple-award IDIQ contract vehicle, Lawelawe Defense received an initial task order valued at $500 on the same award date, designated as the SHIELD Initial Order with firm fixed-price pricing. The place of performance for this initial order is Huntsville, Alabama 35898. The contract structure permits Lawelawe Defense and other awarded contractors to compete for future delivery orders and task orders supporting the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities, establishing a flexible, long-term contracting mechanism intended to rapidly facilitate orders across a 10-year period of performance. Individual task orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with resultant orders potentially issued at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances to support the nation's comprehensive, multi-layered defense requirements.