Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE920

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Apogee Engineering, LLC on December 29, 2025, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract carries a ceiling value of $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, representing a 10-year period of performance consisting of a base ordering period and optional ordering periods. This is a full and open competition vehicle with no set-aside designations, structured to enable multiple awards to qualifying contractors capable of delivering technically acceptable proposals at fair and reasonable prices. The contract supports national defense objectives by procuring an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles.

The contracted work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and related professional services. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and will support both classified and unclassified programs at different security levels. The initial delivery order issued to Apogee Engineering carries a firm fixed-price of $500 and is designated as the SHIELD Initial Order, with performance to be conducted in Huntsville, Alabama. Apogee Engineering, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is well-positioned for performance given its extensive experience delivering systems engineering, software development, program management, and technical support across space, cyber, intelligence, and defense domains to the Department of Defense and related agencies.