Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE890

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract represents a $151 billion defense procurement vehicle awarded by the Missile Defense Agency to A. Harold and Associates LLC and other qualifying contractors on December 29, 2025, with a ten-year performance period extending through December 28, 2035. This enterprise-wide contracting mechanism employs full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing the government to rapidly issue task and delivery orders for advanced multi-domain defense capabilities. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts required to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains throughout all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats.

A. Harold and Associates LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in Jacksonville, Florida, received the initial task order valued at $500 under this IDIQ contract with place of performance at Huntsville, Alabama, utilizing firm fixed-price pricing. The contractor's established expertise in curriculum development, training services, and technical support for federal defense agencies, combined with existing experience on significant naval training and engineering contracts, positions the company to support SHIELD's requirements. The procurement structure accommodates multiple contract types, security classification levels, and utilization of advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, enabling flexible execution of complex defense modernization initiatives across the Department of Defense enterprise.