Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE883

System Dynamics International Incorporated, a woman-owned small business based in Huntsville, Alabama, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract, funded by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This is a full and open competition contract with no set-aside designations, enabling the government to rapidly issue task orders for advanced multi-domain defense capabilities. The contract structure accommodates both classified and unclassified work across multiple security domains and allows for various contract types to be utilized within individual task and delivery orders.

The SHIELD IDIQ procurement encompasses comprehensive research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts to develop an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Work spans all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, incorporating cutting-edge technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. The contract is designed as a flexible, enterprise-wide vehicle enabling the MDA and other Department of Defense entities to procure disruptive defense technologies and modernization solutions over the ten-year period of performance, positioning the SHIELD IDIQ as a strategic instrument for addressing evolving national security requirements across multiple classification levels and functional domains.