Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE894

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to 3D Management & Consulting LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business certified contractor based in Sierra Vista, Arizona, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract has a ceiling value of $151 billion with a performance period extending through December 28, 2035, and was awarded on January 21, 2026, following a pre-solicitation notice posted May 21, 2025. The contract supports the development, production, and sustainment of an advanced, multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to United States homeland, deployed forces, and allies across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial threats. Work areas include research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts, with individual task orders issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes and classification levels.

The initial delivery order issued on January 21, 2026, is valued at five hundred dollars and is designated as the SHIELD Initial Order. The contract vehicle is structured to accommodate both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. With no set-aside designations applied to the underlying IDIQ contract, this procurement utilized full and open competition, allowing all qualified contractors meeting responsibility criteria and technical acceptability standards to receive multiple awards. The contract place of performance is identified as Huntsville, Alabama, and pricing for individual task orders will be determined on a firm fixed price basis, positioning the SHIELD IDIQ as a comprehensive long-term contracting mechanism for the nation's layered homeland defense requirements.