Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE888

Red Cell Partners, LLC (UEI: XHRWKAHGHKX7) was awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This ten-year contract employs full and open competition with no set-asides and utilizes a firm fixed price pricing structure for individual task orders. The contract vehicle is designed to procure 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 all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. The scope encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, with individual task and delivery orders potentially utilizing different contract types and classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances.

The initial task order, the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Initial Order, was issued on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $500 and a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to provide continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats. As a comprehensive contracting solution, the SHIELD IDIQ vehicle is intended to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a single flexible contract mechanism, with anticipated awards made to all qualifying offerors determined to be responsible sources submitting technically acceptable proposals with fair and reasonable pricing in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.304(c)(1)(ii).