Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE861

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Vettech LLC (UEI: YE9PSALFRPY8) effective December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This is a 10-year contract vehicle with no set-aside designations, awarded under full and open competition to support the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract requires the contractor to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance. The initial task order, awarded on the same date with a ceiling value of $500 in Firm Fixed Price, is designated as the SHIELD Initial Order with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract structure allows for multiple task and delivery orders across various classification levels and NAICS codes, supporting both classified and unclassified defense programs.

The SHIELD Multiple Award IDIQ contract 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. Contracted services encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related efforts. The contract vehicle is engineered to provide continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles and other advanced aerial attacks. The procurement leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. All qualifying offerors meeting responsibility standards, technical acceptability, and fair and reasonable pricing criteria were eligible for multiple awards under this flexible contracting mechanism designed to enable rapid issuance of orders supporting MDA and other Department of Defense entities' multi-layered defense requirements.