Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE849

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Sierra Space Corp with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This procurement, designated the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract, was awarded on December 29, 2025, following a pre-solicitation notice posted on May 21, 2025, with a proposal due date of September 15, 2025. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to issue task orders for advanced multi-domain defense systems capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friendly nations. The scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related efforts across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks.

Under this parent IDIQ vehicle, Sierra Space Corp received an initial task order designated the SHIELD Initial Order with a firm fixed-price ceiling value of five hundred dollars, awarded on December 29, 2025, with completion scheduled for December 28, 2035. The place of performance for this delivery order is located in Huntsville, Alabama 35898. As a for-profit aerospace technology manufacturer headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, Sierra Space Corp brings substantial experience as a prime contractor to NASA and the U.S. Air Force, with cumulative prime federal contract awards exceeding $850 million across life support systems, propulsion technologies, lunar logistics, advanced manufacturing, and space systems development. The SHIELD IDIQ structure is designed 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 over a 10-year period of performance consisting of a base ordering period and optional ordering periods.