Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE899

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, awarded to A3 Missions, LLC on December 29, 2025, represents a $151 billion, 10-year defense procurement vehicle administered by the Missile Defense Agency with a completion date of December 28, 2035. This full and open competition contract with no set-asides was established 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 across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

Under this IDIQ structure, A3 Missions, LLC serves as a prime contractor authorized to receive multiple task and delivery orders utilizing various contract types across different classification levels and security domains. The initial delivery order, awarded on December 29, 2025, with a firm fixed-price structure and $500 ceiling value, is designated for the SHIELD Initial Order with performance at Huntsville, Alabama. The IDIQ vehicle is structured to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders across multiple functional areas while maintaining flexibility in contract types, pricing mechanisms, and facility clearance requirements to support both classified and unclassified programs essential to the nation's multi-layered defense requirements.