Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE891

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to A3 Technology Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, with an effective award date of December 29, 2025, and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and represents a comprehensive, multi-domain defense procurement vehicle designed to support national defense objectives through research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, and production of advanced defense systems. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, and all task orders will be issued as Firm Fixed Price delivery orders from the Huntsville, Alabama location. Under the SHIELD IDIQ, the government intends to procure capabilities for detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile defense systems supporting the protection of the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and partners.

The scope of work encompassed by the SHIELD IDIQ includes research and development, prototyping of disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple classification levels and security domains. The contract vehicle is structured to leverage advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with individual task orders potentially utilizing various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and requiring appropriate facility clearances for classified and unclassified program support. The initial delivery order awarded on December 29, 2025, established a baseline task valued at five hundred dollars, with the broader IDIQ contract providing a flexible mechanism for the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders for multi-layered defense capabilities over the 10-year performance period.