Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE886

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This contract vehicle, titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), was issued under full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing all qualified contractors to submit technically acceptable proposals demonstrating fair and reasonable pricing. The contract requires prime contractors to provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities to support the development and deployment of an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial threats.

Work scope under the SHIELD IDIQ encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and operational support across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains. The contract structure accommodates multiple task and delivery orders utilizing various contract types and pricing mechanisms across multiple NAICS codes, with the capability to support both classified and unclassified programs at different security classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The initial delivery order, valued at $500 with a Firm Fixed Price structure, is titled SHIELD Initial Order and specifies performance at Huntsville, Alabama. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish a comprehensive, flexible contracting mechanism enabling rapid order issuance across the Department of Defense enterprise for integrated homeland defense capabilities.