Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE848

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Aalyria Technologies, Inc. and other qualifying contractors on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract vehicle was developed through full and open competition with no set-asides and represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement mechanism designed to provide continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains and NAICS codes, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

As the prime contractor, Aalyria Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Livermore, California, brings specialized expertise in advanced space-based networking and communication technologies developed through its prior work with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory, and NASA. The contract requires the contractor to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance, with individual task and delivery orders to be issued under various contract types with differing classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. Aalyria's established track record in space-based communication infrastructure, low Earth orbit backhaul capabilities, network simulation and disaster recovery solutions, and advanced space architecture development positions the contractor to support MDA's broader multi-layered defense architecture objectives through this flexible, long-term contracting vehicle.