Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE893

A2 Systems Engineering, Inc., a veteran-owned small business, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Missile Defense Agency on January 21, 2026, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides and was issued under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a 10-year comprehensive contracting vehicle designed to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Under this IDIQ structure, the contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to performance of individual delivery orders. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple NAICS codes, with orders potentially issued at various classification levels.

The initial task order under the SHIELD IDIQ, valued at five hundred dollars as a firm fixed-price delivery order, was awarded on January 21, 2026, with performance based in Huntsville, Alabama. The SHIELD program represents a significant long-term investment leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to establish layered protection across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks. The contract structure supports both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue multiple delivery orders under a single flexible contracting mechanism while maintaining continuity and efficiency in homeland defense capability development and sustainment.