Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE954

Artel LLC, a veteran-owned large business based in Herndon, Virginia, was awarded a multiple-award indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a period of performance extending through December 28, 2035. This contract was competitively awarded through the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program utilizing full and open competition with no small business set-aside designations. The contract supports the government's national defense objectives by establishing a flexible, enterprise-wide contracting vehicle that enables the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue task orders and delivery orders for advanced multi-domain defense capabilities and services.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ contract, Artel LLC will provide materials, labor, equipment, and facilities necessary to support research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization efforts related to detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to United States homeland security and allied forces. The contract encompasses work across multiple domains including air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat response capabilities, addressing ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, cruise missiles, and advanced aerial attacks across all flight phases. Individual task orders issued under this vehicle will utilize various contract types and may involve classified and unclassified work across multiple security domains, leveraging advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Given Artel LLC's established expertise in satellite communications, secure network infrastructure, and telecommunications provisioning for defense agencies, the company's role under SHIELD will likely involve communications and network support capabilities essential to integrated homeland defense operations.