Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE885

KAI Fusion LLC (UEI: L45FELCX7D95) was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year period of performance. This procurement utilized full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified contractors meeting responsibility and technical acceptability standards to compete. The contract was established through a pre-solicitation notice posted on May 21, 2025, with a solicitation due date of September 15, 2025, and follows the multiple-award IDIQ structure outlined under Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii), whereby the government committed to awarding to all qualifying offerors demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing.

Under this IDIQ vehicle, KAI Fusion LLC will provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities to support the development, production, and fielding of an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contracted scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts in support of national defense objectives protecting the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners. Individual task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes at varying classification levels, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish comprehensive, layered defense capabilities.