Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE871

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Ahtna Qualis 8A JV, LLC (UEI: G1H5U4S7N4J5) on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract vehicle carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and extends through December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year period of performance. The procurement utilized full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing all qualified contractors meeting responsibility and technical acceptance criteria to compete for multiple awards under the IDIQ structure. The MDA issued the original pre-solicitation notice on May 21, 2025, with a due date of September 15, 2025, and released a draft solicitation in late July 2025 prior to the final Request for Proposal anticipated in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025.

The SHIELD contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The scope of work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts addressing threats throughout all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Individual task and delivery orders issued under the IDIQ will utilize various contract types and pricing mechanisms, including firm fixed price arrangements, and may be classified at different security levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The initial task order issued December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of five hundred dollars and specifies performance in Huntsville, Alabama.