Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE882

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract designated the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. The contract employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations, making it available to all qualified contractors capable of meeting technical and security requirements. The solicitation, which was posted as a pre-solicitation notice on May 21, 2025, with responses due September 15, 2025, explicitly indicates that awards will be made to all qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing under Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii). The contract structure accommodates both classified and unclassified work across multiple security domains and NAICS codes, with individual task and delivery orders issued at varying classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.

The SHIELD IDIQ contract procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system encompassing detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization capabilities against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. Contracted work areas include research and development, prototyping, disruptive technology development, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization initiatives. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to support continuous, layered protection of the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. The initial task order, awarded concurrently with the IDIQ vehicle on December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of $500 and is designated as a Firm Fixed Price delivery order with a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, establishing the baseline for subsequent orders under this 10-year enterprise-wide contracting vehicle designed to provide rapid ordering flexibility across multiple Department of Defense entities.