Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE864

Red Cedar USA, LLC has been awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), a defense component of the U.S. Department of Defense. The contract, valued at $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, was awarded on December 29, 2025, without set-asides and utilizing full and open competition. The contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required for performance of task orders issued under this IDV, which serves as a comprehensive contracting vehicle enabling the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders across a flexible, multi-year procurement mechanism.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to U.S. homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts supporting continuous layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, and advanced aerial attacks across all flight phases. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple industry classification codes at both classified and unclassified levels, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This 10-year procurement represents a significant long-term investment in the nation's multi-layered homeland defense capabilities.